Eremitério Os Santos
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 One of the frescos painted on the wall | |
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| Location | Picote, Miranda do Douro,  Portugal |
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| Coordinates | 41°23′19″N 6°23′42.9″W / 41.38861°N 6.395250°W |
| Type | hermitage |
| Completion date | 16th century |
Eremitério Os Santos is a 16th century hermitage located near the towns of Picote and Sendim e Atenor on the Douro International Natural Park in Northern Portugal.[1][2]
The Hermitage consists of a chapel in ruins and a shelter with hagiographic frescoes executed in the 16th century in the place known by São Paulo, in the vicinity the chapel of the same name, located about 700 m and closest to the river. The hermitage bears the date of 1553 and the chapel has the date of 1596 inscribed on it. Sculptures and rock graves were identified, a sign of the sacred character of the area and the continuity of rituals and cults that took place there.[1]
The construction of these small chapels was associated with the practice of hermitic life, but also with the itineraries of devotion.[1]
