Santa Barbara’s Church (Boticas): Santa Barbara’s Church is based on the religious architecture concept and used to be the parish church. The biggest highlight is a wooden pelican that one can find in the sacristy. According the community of this region, the bird wounded its own breast to feed the baby birds with its blood. In this way, the pelican represented God that gave His blood to the people.
Little Stone Bridge (Boticas): the medieval Little Stone Bridge is a Romantic one with five bows. According to the legend, when the Moor where building it, they only worked at night because they were afraid to get killed during the day. They kept on building the bridge only with small stones, and when they were almost finishing it they had to run away. For the bridge to be completed there was missing only one little stone, so it became the Little Stone Bridge.
Saviour’s Mother-Church (Ribeira de Pena): this is the most expressive monument of Ribeira de Pena. Its highlights are the baroque elements of the façade and the high altar with the Divine Saviour and the S. Miguel Archangel images, among many other attractive.
This was the place where the writer Camilo Castelo Branco got married, when he was 16 years old. |
