Almoster, Santarem

Farm with land of 5.2Ha completely fenced and with two independent entrances.Fertile land with five water springs, which run all year round, water hole (well), 3 tanks and a support house make this place unique in potential in several aspects. There is constructive feasibility for a 340m2 house already with a request for information to the Municipality of Santarm.There are several fruit trees, especially walnut trees, which once served a walnut factory of previous owners. The vineyard is also favorable to its planting, with sloping terrain and good sun exposure.Possibility of Renewable Energies/Self-sustaining project.At the end of the land we have the passage of a stream that brings the richness of nature to this place.Practically glued to the Lisbon district, we find this land with easy access to Lisbon in just 30 minutes.Come and meet us!Almoster (A bit of history)Located to the west of Santarm, at the beginning of an elevation, the parish of Almoster is 13 km from the seat of the Municipality.The toponym Almoster, al monasterium, of Latin/Arabic hybrid origin, seems to denounce the presence of a monastery or simple proto-Christian hermitage. Of this first monastery we only have the toponym. However, there are traces of human occupation in the region since the third millennium BC. Chalcolithic and Early Bronze. This is evidenced by the finds that are now part of the collection of the National Museum of Archaeology.The place of Almoster was chosen by D. Sancha Pires, in a will dated 1287, for the foundation of a monastery and his daughter, D. Berengria Aires, began, in 1289/90, the construction of a female monastery, submitted to the Cistercian Order, the Monastery of Santa Maria de Almoster, of which today we only have the Church, recently recovered by IPPAR, the Cloisters and the Chapter House (XVI century). XIV) and the ruins of the Dormitory and Refectory (XVI century). Inside the church, there are several altars of gilded carvings and seventeenth-century tile cloths. The culinary skills of these nuns can still be appreciated today, through the Arrepiados and Celestes, whose traditional recipes have been kept alive by the inhabitants of Almoster.It was also in the parish of Almoster, in the place of Santa Maria (Casal da Charneca), that the Battle of Almoster was fought, on February 18, 1834, between the absolutist troops, D. Miguel, and the liberal troops, D. Pedro, the latter having achieved victory, beginning a new period of our History, the Liberal Monarchy.