Caloura, formerly known by Bond of Cabaços, a colorful town of fishermen, idyllically located next to a small stream, sheltered by a high cliff covered with abundant vegetation, between vineyards protected by black basalt walls. Famous by its for Centre Diving and Marine Life Observation, this town also counts on its patrimony of religious historical buildings like the Convent of Caloura of constructed Baroque style in the centuries XVI and XVII that are private and single can be visited if the proprietor authorizes it. The church of the convent the Igreja de Nossa Senhora gives Dores originated the cult of the Christ of the Miracles when the Pope Pablo II offered the image of the Christ to the nuns in 1530. In order to protect the statue of the numerous pirate attacks, it was transferred to the chapel of Nossa Senhora gives Esperança in Thin Ponta in anus 1541. |