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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Visit the Church of San Pedro de Canaferrim - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The ancient church of San Pedro de Canaferrim in some of the Moorish Castle, Parish of Saint Peter of Penaferrim (Sintra), will most likely coeval with charter granted by King Afonso Henriques in 1154 and have been the first parish Sintra. In 1493, however, was already abandoned.
They are two separate buildings, both invoking the Guardian of Heaven, distinguished only by invoking such a place name that carried. Therefore, it is noted that the purpose still current form - Penaferrim - sees itself as a modern way, certainly influenced by Pena ("hill", "end"), the former toponym Canaferrim (this certificate in the eighteenth century and still today associated with the towering Romanesque), which, in turn, derived from the medieval toponym Calaferrim (Arabic qala'â), whose meaning can be "town situated on the plateau or sheer cliff. "
These are the ruins of the dilapidated church of San Pedro de Canaferrim comprising the list of World Heritage property.

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