Beyond the church, cultivated land
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Vegetable gardens, orchards and medicinal plants formed part of the monastery grounds.
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According to the municipal description of 2021, vegetable gardens, orchards, medicinal plants, fields and woods made up the former grounds of Refojos Monastery. Its pharmacy supplied other Benedictine monasteries, including Tibães. Beyond the church, there was land to cultivate and medicine to prepare. This is a historical portrait of the grounds, not an inventory of today’s plants.
The same description places the Penoutas stream beside and behind the monastery, near former agricultural buildings now adapted as museum spaces. Water and working buildings broaden the view: the story of the complex extends beyond worship.
The former grounds can no longer be read as one intact garden. The source draws attention to scattered traces. Distinguishing what the document describes from what a photograph shows is part of the discovery: a view of the square does not reconstruct vanished vegetable gardens, orchards or medicinal plants.
Source and context
Municipality — historical gardens, news of 21/05/2021
Accessed: . Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.