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Santa Cruz do Bussaco

TIME : 2016/2/18 23:39:36

Tucked away behind the hotel, this is what remains of a convent where the Duke of Wellington to-be rested after the Battle of Bussaco in 1810. The atmospheric interior has decaying religious paintings, an unusual walkway right around the chapel, some guns from the battle, and the much-venerated image of Nossa Senhora do Leite (Our Lady of the Milk), with a raft of ex-voto offerings.