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Convento de Santa Clara
Long is the story of the Santa Clara Monastery. In the 13th century, in an uncertain year, it was founded by D. Mafalda, infanta de Portugal. It is known that, in 1272, it was already working in full. The small monastery would later adopt the Order of Santa Clara.
Largo de Santa Clara
Amarante
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The violence of battles between Napoleonic troops and Anglo-Portuguese forces during the French invasions weighed heavily on the monastery. The flames that the French army ignited in the fighting consumed the monastery. Only the church escaped unscathed.
After a long process of rebuilding, the nuns would return to occupy the monastery. Another twist, however, was about to arrive. In 1833, new admissions to the novitiate are prohibited. More: a year later, religious orders in Portugal were extinguished. The Monastery of Santa Clara begins a slow death that arrives in 1862, with the transfer of the last religious to the Monastery of Santa do Porto.
The building would be sold at auction and, little by little, converted into Casa da Cerca by a Portuguese emigrant in Brazil. It was a private residence, which, after some changes, kept the designation of the monastic fence.
Of the original monastic ensemble, there is little more than a partially demolished temple. Physically, the monastery, as it was known in the initial phase, disappeared. But there is something that is still associated with the monastery today; something that delights Amarantines and visitors - the conventual sweets, spread by the nuns of the feminine branch of the Mendicante Franciscana Order, devotees of Santa Clara. Today, sweets are a reference in the culture and gastronomy of Amarante.
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