Carmelite Convent - Bucaco

The Carmelite Convent in Bucaco.
Bussaco has a long history of religious settlement with Benedictine monks arriving in the 6th century. In the 17th century it was taken over by Carmelite monks who built a monastery and erected a wall around the surrounding forest

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