page_title: São Vicente (Abrantes)
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: São Vicente (Abrantes) / Architecture
context_page_description: São Vicente is a former freguesia, located in the municipality of Abrantes, in Santarém District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Abrantes e Alferrarede. The population in 2011 was 11,622, in an area of 38.20 km². It included the northern part of the city of Abrantes.
context_section_description: Convent of Santo António (Portuguese: Convento de Santo António), located in the Quinta da Arca, and likely founded in 1526, but found in a state of decay and ruins, emblematic for its iconic 17 archways. It was built under the orders of Philip I of Portugal, who order the transfer of the original convent from Ribeira da Abrançalha at the end of the 16th century or beginning of the 17th century, with the support of Lopo de Almeida, Count of Abrantes. But, by the end of the 17th century the convent had already been largely abandoned by the monks, who moved to the centre Abrantes and the property sold to Diogo Marchão and Maria Gamita. In the second half of the 19th century the land was obtained by João Freire Temudo Fialho de Mendonça and became part of the Quinta da Arca.
  Hermitage of São Lourenço (Portuguese: Ermida de São Lourenço), a small chapel dating back to the 16th century, alongside the Abrante's Parque Urbano (English: urban park)
caption: The ruins of the medieval convent of Santo António
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