Capital of the Mosteiro da Costa

7th century

Granite

Provenance: Guimarães, Mosteiro de Santa Marinha da Costa

MAS L 29

During the 6^th-7^th centuries, Santa Marinha da Costa was already the center of the Swabian parish of Carantonis, and its small church. The temple was rebuilt between 872 and 899 and again in the 12th century, reusing some stones of the primitive Moorish building.