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Mountain Hermitage

According to the legend, when King Dinis and his wife - Queen Isabel - lived in Monte Real, at the time of the pinewood plantation, he would have some secret loves towards Leiria, namely, in Amor, a nearby locality.

As the Queen became suspicious of her husbands constant departures, she ordered one of her servants to follow the King and his pages in order to find out where he was going. On the path that the King used between Monte Real and Amor, there was a Chapel and, a little further on, a lime oven.
The King, realizing that he was being followed by the queens servant, as he passed the lime kiln, ordered the workers to grab and put into the kiln a knight who was a little behind. It turns out that the queens servant, being very religious, entered the Chapel and there attended the mass that was taking place at that time.
Some time later, the King sent one of his servants to the oven to ask if the Kings orders had been carried out. The workers replied that they would be fulfilled immediately and they put the Kings servant in the oven, who was thus burned as being the Queens servant, which was understood as a miracle of that nature and a serious warning to King Dinis.

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