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How the village of Forca was renamed Santo EstΓͺvΓ£o and the niche of the Lord of Miracles is recalled, featuring the 'alminha' (a small roadside devotional image) painted in the nineteenth century by local artist Carlos Augusto Massa of Sernancelhe.

The prominence of the Palace of the Counts of Anadia is not due only to its grandeur; the city of Mangualde developed around it.
