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The legend of the Moura da Ponte de Chaves tells the story of a young Moorish woman in the 12th century, engaged to her cousin, who did not love her. When the Christians reconquered Chaves, she fell in love with a Christian warrior. Her fiancé, feeling betrayed, returned to the city dressed as a beggar, to take revenge. One day he waited for her on the Roman bridge of Trajan, when he saw her approaching, he asked her for alms. The Moor, who extended her hand, locked eyes with him and the rejected Moor cursed him saying: "Forever you will be enchanted under the third arch of this bridge. Only the love of a Christian knight, not the one who took you, will be able to save you." Years later, a knight heard her laments, a woman's voice asked him to go down to the third arch of the bridge and give her a kiss. But the knight hesitated and, afraid of being bewitched, left, swearing never but pass there at midnight On Saint John's nights, his sadness can be heard.
