The chapel of the Lord's Stone, on the beach in Miramar, Vila Nova de Gaia
Porto in the north of Portugal in the summer is like this: just end a party, soon begins another.
The exponential maximum of such events is the St. John Party in the city of Porto.
The festival dedicated to Lord's Stone, Miramar, in Vila Nova de Gaia, deserves a special feature, both the place where it arises, as the great devotion of which have been in the past.
The site of the festival is a plant hexagonal chapel built on a rock hit the sea on the beach of Miramar. The chapel that date there is now more or less at the time of King John V (1689-17509, but the place where it stands was subject to remote pagan beliefs. Before the chapel stands, is to admit that other temples, pagans and Christians, have existed in rock.
Only the very fact that a upbear chapel is a place so close to the sea, without it being destroyed by this in the days of greater duration, already seems a miracle. No wonder therefore that she has been the center of a fervent cult.
The importance the pilgrimage to the Lord's Stone had in the past is witnessed by the existence within a radius of several kilometers around, the festival of songs that it are dedicated. In this celebrations of the Lord of the Stone many pilgrims coming from far away, which formed ranching and raids and would walk the road outside, singing, dancing and playing bombs, triangle, cavaquinhos, concertinas, fiddle, violas ramaldeiras and braguesas and so on.
Today it remains a highly symbolic place it deserves a visit or perhaps an unforgettable wedding!
Popular Parties and Celebrations
Great Popular Parties Near Roses Village
AGUDA - Partie of Easter - 12 Abril
OPORTO - Partie of S.João -Night of 23 of June
AGUDA -Partie of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré - End of August
VIANA DO CASTELO - Romaria da N. Sra. Agonia - 20/24 August
Some Interest Places to visit Near Roses Village
Monuments
Church of São Francisco (10,7 km)
Monastere of Serra do Pilar (10,7 km)
Paláce of Bolsa (10,7 km)
bridge Dom Luís I (10,8 km)
great wall of Oporto Castel (11,0 km)
Oporto Cathedral (11,0 km)
church of Santa Clara (11,0 km)
beaches
Praia Mar e Sol (1,0 km)
Praia da Granja (1,7 km)
Praia de Miramar (2,0 km)
Cities:
Espinho (4,6 km)
Cais de Gaia (10,3 km)
Vila Nova de Gaia (10,3 km)
