Check out the video! By , in Portugal · 07 Jul 2026, 07:31 · 0 Comments The name Santarém rests on a fascinating, historically rooted 7th-century legend. The tragic narrative centres on Iria, a devout Visigothic noblewoman from Nabância who took sacred vows of chastity. Her beauty sparked unrequited obsessions in a nobleman named Britaldo and her spiritual tutor, the monk Remígio. One day, Remígio maliciously administered a toxic potion that caused Iria's stomach to swell, falsely simulating a pregnancy. Believing the rumours, a furious Britaldo hired an assassin who struck her down in 653 AD.Her lifeless body was then cast into the Nabão River, floating down into the Tagus. Miraculously, a divinely sealed marble tomb appeared underwater near the Roman city of Scalabis, encasing her uncorr