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Salzedas, Viseu District, Portugal

Monastery Farm of Santa Maria of Salzedas

Price
€2,550,000

Living area2,331 m²
Plot surface168,504 m²

Amenities and special features of this house

Historic and unique property inserted in the region of the Varosa Valley and integrated in the complex of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Salzedas, classified as a national monument. This property with about 17 hectares, walled, includes a churchyard with chapel, two buildings of first floor and floor, and a mill. The buildings, with a total area of 2,250 m2, served as a monastery for the Cistercian order, which projected the entire property for devotion and for the exploitation of its agricultural production. The property also includes the "Chapter Room" which is part of the Museum of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Salzedas, accessible through its cloisters, the entire property is served by the Torno River that crosses it in all its extension. Salzedas is a village in the District of Viseu, situated on the right bank of the Varosa river. Its main economic activity is agriculture (olive oil, wine, elderberries, corn, rye, potatoes and fruit trees). It is a wine-growing village in the Douro. It is just over an hour and a half's drive from the city of Porto. Currently this farm is being looked after by an employee and has vineyards and orchards with fruit trees. It also has agricultural implements that help in the work of the farm. The house is habitable and functional. There is no rehabilitation project, but has potential for various features, including tourism, wine tourism, residential project, and agricultural production of various kinds, etc.
Object type

Country House

Living area

2,331 m²

Total surface

168,504 m²

Plot surface

168,504 m²

Energy certificate available

In progress

Salzedas: Location and surroundings of this property

It was built by order of Egas Moniz, Alfonso Henriques' aunt in law, and his wife Teresa Afonso, in 1155. The Cistercian presence in the Varosa Valley started in the 12th century when Count Afonso Henriques granted a letter of couto to the first Cistercian community in the region in 1140. Thus was born the Monastery of São João de Tarouca, which was joined in 1156 by the neighbouring Monastery of Santa Maria de Salzedas. The future of the Douro was beginning to take shape here, with the Cistercians putting all their knowledge and expertise into the development of the region's wine industry, changing the landscape and contributing to the excellence that is now recognised by UNESCO. In its time, it was one of the largest Cistercian monasteries in Portugal, flanked to the south by vast cultivated land and to the east by a small town that grew into a uniform house.

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