Almoster, Santarem

Farm with Land of 5.2Ha completely fenced with net and with two independent entrances.Fertile land with five water springs, which run all year round, water borehole (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 Santarm City Council.There are several fruit trees, especially the walnut trees that once served a walnut factory of previous owners. The vineyard is also favorable to its planting, with a slope of land and good sun exposure.Possibility of Renewable Energy/Self-sustainable project.At the end of the land we have the passage of a stream that brings the richness of nature to this place.Practically next to the district of Lisbon we find this land with easy access to Lisbon in just 30 minutes.Come and see it!Almoster (A Little 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 hybrid Latin/Arabic origin, seems to denounce the presence of a monastery or simple proto-Christian hermitage. From 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. The findings that are now part of the collection of the National Museum of Archaeology prove this.The place of Almoster was chosen by D. Sancha Pires, in a will dated 1287, for the foundation of a monastery and her daughter, D. Berengria Aires, begins, 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 have only the Church, recently recovered by IPPAR, the Cloisters and the Chapter House (century. XIV) and the ruins of the Dormitory and Refectory (century. XVI). Inside the Church, several altars of gilded carving and seventeenth-century tile cloths should be mentioned. The culinary skills of these nuns can still be appreciated today, through the Arrepiados and Celestes, whose traditional recipes were 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, having achieved victory, starting a new period of our History, the Liberal Monarchy.