Rio Mau - Igreja de São Cristóvão

This church, dedicated to St. Christopher, is the last remaining building of a monastery founded in the 11th century, and belonging to the Canons Regular of St. Augustine. The earliest reference to the monastery dates from 1103. The monastery existed upto 1443, when it was dissolved

The present church is the result of a rebuilding carried out in 1151, as indicated by an inscription on the apse.

The side-portal is created in a different artistic style. The tympanum depicts (hard to see) two fighting dragons.