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Monastery of San Francisco do Val de Deus

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Monastery of San Francisco do Val de Deus

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A Franciscan convent founded in the early thirteenth century on land the Benedictines of San Martiño Pinario gave in exchange for a basket of fish a year, still delivered in the late 1700s. Tradition says Saint Francis asked a charcoal burner to build it.

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