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Museums and PalacesMuseu do CaramuloLocated up in the Serra do Caramulo hills, and surrounded by rich vegetation through which there are marvellous views out over the countryside below, is this highly unusual museum. Its exceptional collection of 65 automobiles was begun by one of the (...)
Telephone: +351 232 861 270
Fax: +351 232 861 308
E-mail: info@museudocaramulo.pt
Website: https://museudocaramulo.pt/
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MonumentsIgreja da Lapa - PortoThe Church of Our Lady of LapaDuring the year 1754, the brazilian priest Ângelo Sequeira preached in Oporto and begged with the aim of raising funds to build a chapel in honor of Our Lady of Lapa. In 1755, his dream came true and the Chapel of (...)
Telephone: +351 22 550 28 28 / 22 200 13 69
E-mail: museulapa@irmandadedalapa.pt
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MonumentsCastelo e Muralha de MonsantoCastle and Wall of MonsantoD. Afonso Henriques gave this castle to the Knights Templar, who gave it its present-day form. Having once been an imposing mediaeval fortress, all that now remains are the Torre de Lucena and the quadrangular Torre do (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho (Museu Regional de Lagos)Housed in the annexe to the Igreja de Santo António, this museum was founded in 1934. It has a Renaissance portico originating from the Igreja do Compromisso Marítimo (the church of the fishermen’s mutual society), to which an iron gate has been (...)
Telephone: +351 282 762 301
Fax: +351 282 782 058
E-mail: museu@cm-lagos.pt
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MonumentsIgreja da Graça - SantarémThe splendour of Flamboyant Gothic.Although its construction was only completed in the early 15th century, the first stone of Our Lady of Grace Church was laid in 1380 by D. Afonso Telo de Menezes, the first Count of Ourém, who decided to found a (...)
Telephone: +351 243 304 441
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MonumentsCapela de São Miguel - CoimbraThe small but charming Capela de São Miguel was built in 1517 to replace a former mediaeval private oratory. The project belonged to Marcos Pires, who designed the naturalistic Manueline side door, although he died in 1521 and his work had to be (...)
Telephone: +351 239 410 980
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MonumentsIgreja de Santa Maria do Castelo - TaviraMarian worship from Gothic to Baroque.The Church of Santa Maria is a 13th century building, likely built on the site of the old mosque by the city’s conqueror, D. Paio Peres Correia, master of the Order of Santiago, who is buried in the main chapel (...)
Telephone: +351 281 326 286 / 931 327 872
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MonumentsIgreja de São Vicente de Sousa - FelgueirasChurch from the 12th / 13th c. in romanesque style.
Telephone: +351 255 810 706
Fax: +351 255 810 709
E-mail: rotadoromanico@valsousa.pt
Website: http://www.rotadoromanico.com
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MonumentsConvento de Santa IriaThe Convent of Santa Iria was built in the 16th century, on the site of an ancient building, erected prior to the foundation of the castle. It is located on the banks of the River Nabão, in the site where Saint Iria was martyred, decapitated at the (...)
Telephone: +351 249 322 601
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MonumentsIgreja de São Vicente de ForaMannerist church from the 17th c., modified in the 18th c. in baroque style.
Telephone: (+351) 218 810 559
E-mail: museu@patriarcado-lisboa.pt
Website: https://www.patriarcado-lisboa.pt/site/index.php?cont_=40&te (...)
