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  1. Caves
    Monumento Natural Regional do Algar do Carvão
    Algar do Carvão is situated in the central area of Terceira island, at an altitude of roughly 550 metres.Previously forming part of a Natural Geological Reserve, the area of Algar do Carvão (roughly 40.5 hectares) was recently reclassified as a (...)

  2. Mosteiro de Santa Cruz - O Claustro do Silêncio e a Sacristia
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    Mosteiro de Santa Cruz - The Cloisters of Silence and the Sacristy
    With a square ground plan, the arches of these cloisters present a beautiful decoration of laurel leaves carved out of stone. They were designed by Marcos Pires and built in the first quarter of the 16th century. On the walls, visitors should notice (...)

  3. Mosteiro de Santa Cruz - A fachada, o púlpito e os túmulos dos reis
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    Mosteiro de Santa Cruz - The façade, the pulpit and the tombs of the kings
    Before entering, note the exuberance and lightness of the statues decorating the portico, the work of the great master builders Diogo de Castilho and Nicolau de Chanterenne, contrasting with the austere Romanesque spirit of the two solid-looking (...)

  4. Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória
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    Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória
    At the very heart of Porto, in Vitória parish, the São Bento da Vitória Monastery – a classified National Monument since 1977 – is one of the municipality’s most important religious buildings.In the late 1500s, after a series of difficult (...)

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    Municipal Park and Calvário Hill
    Located on the highest reaches of Vila Real and close to the more modern buildings, the Municipal Park is a leafy terrace with an approximately 200 metre central walkway flanked by rows of trees that are hundreds of years old.In one corner of the (...)

  6. Museu de Portimão vence prémio DASA
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    Museu de Portimão vence prémio DASA

  7. Odeith
Place: Setúbal
Photo: miguel valle de figueiredo / Rebobina
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    Odeith
     O Rapaz dos Pássaros / The Boy with the BirdsLocation: Auditorio José Afonso, SetúbalThe work 'The Boy with the Birds' was considered the best mural of 2014 by the 'I Support Street Art' movement. Painted on the side of the (...)

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    Old Vila Real
    Old Vila Real - along Carvalho Araújo AvenueIn the early years of the 20th century, a section of houses, was demolished, to open up this broad, well laid out avenue with its pavements in Portuguese cobbles. It was named in honour of Carvalho Araújo, (...)

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    Old Vila Real - Between the Avenida Carvalho Araújo and the Avenida Marginal
    In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the mediaeval town expanded beyond the walled promontory built by its founder, D. Dinis, and new palatial and bourgeois dwellings were built, aligned along new streets, now located between the Avenida Carvalho (...)

  10. Os Gêmeos
Place: Lisboa
Photo: Leonor Viegas 2010
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    Os Gêmeos
    Location: Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, LisboaBorn in 1974, in São Paulo, Brazil, Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo have always worked together. As children in the streets of the traditional neighbourhood of Cambuci in São Paulo, they developed a (...)

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