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MonumentsTorre de Oriz ou dos CoimbrasTorre de Oriz or Torre dos CoimbrasDates from the fourteenth century. Built in granite on an almost square plan, with two storeys and narrow windows.Attached to the tower is a seventeenth century house rebuilt in the eighteenth century in the rural (...)
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MonumentsTorre de PenegateDates from the fourteenth century. Fortified rectangular tower with three storeys, thick stone walls and few openings. This was a feudal tower, also serving as fortress and residence.Thought to have been built by Dom Egas Pais de Penegate, a comrade (...)
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MonumentsTorre de QuintelaMedieval tower, dating from the twelfth or thirteenth century, on a square ground plan. The windows and corner ramparts were added in the fourteenth century.
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MonumentsTorre de São Lourenço ou Torre do BugioTorre de Sao Lourenco or Torre do BugioDates from the sixteenth century and classified as a building of public interest. A fort built under a short period of Spanish rule, a good example of a round Renaissance fortress. Designed by Giovanni Casale, (...)
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MonumentsTorre de Val-BoimTower of Val-BoimThe square-shaped Tower of Val-Boim, was built in the 16th century.
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MonumentsTorre de VilarBuilt in granite blocks, comprising five floors. Lit by Romanesque arrow loops. Entered by a an arched door.This tower was part of the defences of Honra de Brolhaes.
Telephone: +351 255 810 706
Fax: +351 255 810 709
E-mail: rotadoromanico@valsousa.pt
Website: http://www.rotadoromanico.com
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MonumentsTorre do ÁlamoTower of ÁlamoThe Tower of Álamo is also known as the Tower of Camões because according to tradition the famous poet lived here for a period of time.
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MonumentsTorre do Carvalhal, dos Lafetas ou LafeitasAlso known as the Torre do Carvalhal or as the Torre dos Lafeitas, the tower is the oldest building in the region, according to a document from the first half of the thirteenth century. Dom Nuno Alvares Pereira's mother is thought to have lived here.
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MonumentsTorre do Castelo de Aguiar de Sousa
Telephone: +351 255 810 706
Fax: +351 255 810 709
E-mail: rotadoromanico@valsousa.pt
Website: http://www.rotadoromanico.com
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MonumentsTorre do Palácio dos TerenasThis rectangular tower has been altered at various points in its history. It dates originally from the first half of the fourteenth century, having been built on the orders of Pedro Sem, chancellor of the kingdom from 1336 to 1341.
Telephone: +351 226 939 49
