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OtherMosteiro de Santa Cruz - The façade, the pulpit and the tombs of the kingsBefore 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 (...)
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OtherMosteiro de São Bento da VitóriaAt 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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OtherMunicipal Park and Calvário HillLocated 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 (...)
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OtherOdeithO 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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OtherOld Vila RealOld 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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OtherOld Vila Real - Between the Avenida Carvalho Araújo and the Avenida MarginalIn 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 (...)
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OtherOs GêmeosLocation: 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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OtherPaços do ConcelhoThe construction of the former town hall spread over the reigns of D. Manuel I (who began the work) and D. João III. The whole building is made of austere granite and the ground floor forms a porchway of three pointed arches, corresponding on the (...)
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OtherPaços do Concelho - BarcelosBarcelos Town Hall The Barcelos Town Hall building is the result of a series of annexations, structural changes and additions based on the existing town hall building, to which the major remodelling and expansion works started in 1849 sought to give (...)
