Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Graça

This temple is located at the top of Monte Farinha, overlooking Mondim de Basto, at around 990 meters above sea level. Set in a landscape of great beauty and surrounded by the Serra do Alvão mountains, it is a place of reference in terms of history, archaeology, religion and even sport. Devotion to Our Lady of Grace attracts thousands of pilgrims to the sanctuary every year, mainly on its three official festivals: the Ascension, on the last Sunday of May, the centuries-old pilgrimage of Santiago, which is lost in the memory of time, on the 25th of July (already referenced around 1500) and the great Annual Pilgrimage on the 1st Sunday of September, presided over by the Bishop of Vila Real. As for architecture, the Baroque Sanctuary features a quadrangular bell tower and centralized, octagonal nave and rectangular chancel and sacristy. Inside, there are covered domes and barrel vaults, made of granite, with a high stone choir over a depressed arch, two side pulpits with a stone base and a wooden guard, with access from inside the walls, two collateral altarpieces and the carved chancel polychrome, rococo.