According to the legend here was baptized the first king of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, which seems to take on plea, given the Temple dating from the 13th century. Still, here is the pretensed baptismal sink that was used in the ceremony.

The temple was sent by the collegiate of Our Lady of Oliveira, having been sacred by the then Primate of Braga, Silvestre Godinho, in 1239. For his dating, the Romanesque is no longer perfect, and seems to rely on some aspects of the Gothic ascension.

Throughout the centuries he was falling in ruins, state in which he was in the mid-nineteenth century, when the company Martins Sarmento decided to restore it.

It is classified as a national monument since June 16, 1910, simultaneously with the neighbors Castle of Guimarães and Paço dos Dukes de Bragança, thus forming a complex of great not only historical, as well as architectural.