Located in Amares between the historic city of Braga and the Gerês mountain range, the Pousada Sta Maria do Bouro is intriguingly housed in a 12th century Cistercian monastery. In keeping with the Cistercians' philosophy of settling in the most rugged fringes of the European continent, the well-preserved original character of the monastery is rough and almost surrealistically minimalist.

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