J. Gafarot's photos with the keyword: O Sítio

On the Big Waves playground, tradition. At the top of the escarpment of the promontory of Nazaré, the first construction was the chapel erected on the initiative of D. Fuas Roupinho in 1182, over a cave where, after the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, the image of Our Lady of Nazaré was hidden. This initiative is linked to the episode of the Legend of Nazaré.

Les vagues géantes . . . viendront. O Sitio

Village de pêcheurs

According to the Legend of Nazaré the sheriff (alcaide) of Porto de Mós, Dom Fuas Roupinho, maybe a templar, was chasing on horseback a deer up a hilltop on a misty September morning in 1182 (later it was said that it was the devil, in the disguise of a deer). When the deer jumped over the edge of the hilltop into the void, his fiery horse was about to follow. Then the knight invoked the intervention of the Madonna, who made the horse turn away through a supernatural effort and saved the life of the knight. Subsequently, a chapel A Ermida da Memoria, was built very near this spot, over a grotto where stood a small statue of a Black Madonna, brought from Nazareth. Near the chapel one can see the imprint of the horseshoe in the rock.

Horseshoe imprint, who knows where ? PIP please.

Even children can wet their feet . . . but, please see my answer to our friend Jaap van 't Veen.

Nazaré V - August 2018.