Santa Maria de Cós Monastery
Santa Maria de Cós Monastery
The Santa Maria de Cós Monastery is built in the parish of Cós, one of the oldest of the ancient Coutos de Alcobaça.
Founded in the 12th century, the Monastery became one of the most important female monasteries of the Cistercian Order.
The Monastery has undergone interventions over the centuries, respecting the current composition of the church to the interventions of the 17th century.
The Church is, moreover, one of the few infrastructures that still resists today in the entire old complex of the Monastery.
Far from the exuberance of its original days and without the importance of the Monastery in Alcobaça is still the important testimony of the local heritage and identity, being one of the oldest complexes in the region.
This historical, social and cultural importance that the Monastery provides was consecrated with the classification of the building as a Property of Public Interest in 1946.
You certainly agree that the Santa Maria de Cós Monastery is a place worth visiting, so come and discover this and other heritage sites in the municipality of Alcobaça.
