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The foundation of the monastery of Santa María de Veruela is linked to the desire of García Ramirez de Pamplona, the Restorer, (1134-50) to repopulate this territory.

The monastery of Santa María del Parral was built from 1447 to 1503 under Henry IV. Its name is due to the fact that the Virgen del Parral, a Romanesque sculpture from a previous temple, is venerated there. The monastic complex presents a wide variety of styles, from Gothic to Mudejar and Plateresque. For more than 500 years it has been occupied by monks of the Order of San Jerónimo.

The Monastery of Santa María la Real de Fitero was built between the 12th and 13th centuries. The complex preserves the church, the cloister and the chapter house, as well as the conventual rooms that were built in the modern period.

Built by the Order of Friars Minor between the 17th and 18th centuries. It welcomed part of the group of nuns to whom, in the 16th century, Pope Paul III offered the image of the "ecce Homo", an image brought from the Convent of Caloura in Água de Pau and which came to constitute the reference element for one of the greatest religious festivals of the archipelago, that of Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres. This image is currently located in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperança in Ponta Delgada.

The monastery is known by two names: Convento de Santo António and Convento de São Francisco do Praxel (or simply Convento do Praxel).

This female monastery of the Holy Sepulchre was founded in Zaragoza by Marquesa Gil de Rada, who in 1300 had been widowed by Pedro Fernández de Híjar, the illegitimate son of Jaime I. The monastery is still active.

The first Franciscans arrived in Terceira around 1456 and from an early age tried to build a hermitage and later, in 1470, a convent. This primitive complex (convent and hermitage) was demolished, giving way to the current, larger and more imposing one. In 1663, when Frei Naranjo gathered the necessary donations for the works, they began. Three years later, the dormitories and workshops were completed and, on March 6, 1666, the first stone of the new temple was solemnly laid.

Manuel Delgado Fragoso states that the convent and church were built in 1725 on the initiative of Frei Agostinho de São Francisco with his own alms and those of the island's population. The tabernacle being kept while the works were being carried out, in the chapel of the 2nd captain of the mercy, João Soares de Albergaria (c. 1415 - 1499), where divine services were celebrated at the time. For this reason, the foundation of the convent was attributed to Albergaria, to whom he would have given the land and endowed it.

The first written reference to the nuns of the convent of São Gonçalo is by Louis-Philippe de Ségur, count of Ségur (1753-1830), who, when he passed through Terceira in 1782 on his way to the United States.

The monastery of São Martinho de Tibães was founded in the 11th century, but the main buildings of today were erected in the 17th and 18th centuries. From the 12th century it was rebuilt by Paio Guterres da Silva and occupied by the Benedictine congregation. In the 16th century, the monastery became the mother house of the Order for Portugal and Brazil. With the extinction of the religious orders in 1834, it was sold at public auction. Privately owned until 1986, the building was acquired by the Portuguese state. Today, the monastery combines several uses: one wing is used by the Carmelite Order, but the monastery also houses a hotel, a restaurant and a museum.