Monastery of Santa Maria de Flor da Rosa, in Crato

Considered to be one of the most important example of existing fortified monastery in the Iberian Peninsula. Nowadays is a charm hotel, belonging to Pousadas de Portugal. Built in 1356 by D. Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, first Prior of Crato and father of Nuno Alvares Pereira, the Holy Constable. According to some historians was D.Nuno’ […]