Monuments and churches

Igreja de São Pedro

Queimada, 5110-401 Armamar

Contacts and location

Address: Queimada, 5110-401 Armamar
Coordinates: 41.09646, -7.73720 · see on map

The Igreja de São Pedro is the parish church of Queimada, in the parish of Queimada, Armamar municipality, and the village's main religious monument (postcode 5110-401).

Queimada sits on a plateau next to the São Domingos hill, in the heart of the Naçarães valley, where archaeological finds attest to the antiquity of settlement. Since the early Middle Ages the locality, together with Queimadela, was part of the territory of Lamego. Besides the parish church, the parish's heritage includes the chapels of São Sebastião and Santo António and a calvary. Local tradition says the name Queimada comes from a great fire the Romans supposedly set to the old city of Lamego. We found no reliable source for the church's construction date.

It lies about 4 km in a straight line west of the centre of Armamar, near the boundary with the municipality of Lamego. The parish lives from vines, potatoes, fruit and vegetable growing. No visiting hours are published.