The Mosteiro de Travanca impresses by its dimensions, especially the church, built in the XIII century.

Associated to the Gasco lineage, to which Egas Moniz belonged, aia of D. Afonso Henriques, it constituted one of the most powerful monastic institutes of the land of Sousa during the Middle Ages.

On the exterior of the three-nave church, the main doorway is imposing, open in a projecting body, topped by a cornice on rectangular corbels and decorated with corbels [supporting brackets] in the form of bovine heads. The archivolts have dihedral bulls and in their capitals are represented birds with intertwined fishes, serpents, human figures and monsters that swallow fired men.

The north side doorway shows a similar composition.

The interior is composed by diverse artistic and architectural solutions of the medieval period and later.

The sacristy, whose baroque spirit stands out in the arches and paintings of the ceiling, shows the great reforms initiated in the Modern Age.

However, what stands out in the whole is the illada tower, considered one of the highest Portuguese medieval towers. Its military air is purely symbolic, highlighting its richly carved portal, whose tympanum presents an original representation of the Agnus Dei (God’s Crown), raising a kicked cross.