
The Nossa Senhora do Vale Chapel is classified as a Public Interest Building since 1950, and integrates the very interesting touristic-cultural Vale do Sousa Romanesque Route.
The location of this isolated Chapel explains the evocation to Nossa Senhora do Vale (Our Lady of the Valley), showing off how its foundation is linked to the agricultural interests of the population.
The Chapel is composed of a rectangular nave and a squared transept. The nave’s cover is made of wood, while the transept, currently also covered with wood, was initially covered with stone with a Gothic cross vault.
The portal’s arrangement and sculpture work it presents show how much the Romanesque motives endured.
The presence of the pulpit in the chapel’s exterior is probably due to the Processions, once the big affluence of a great number of followers rendered the celebrations in open air.