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   From Rossio to the Almeida Moreira house Museum

   The Rossio in Viseu (also known as the Praça da República) is a pleasant rectangular square, ornamented with lime trees and is very popular amongst the city's population, which gathers in the site and considers it to be its “drawing-room”.The town (...)

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   The conquest of Lisbon

   Prior to entering the Church of the Martyrs, look over at the profile of the St George castle that stamps the horizon at the bottom of Rua Garrett, beyond the Chiado Shopping Centre. That is the very same perspective had by participants in the (...)

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   The Santa Justa elevator

   The steep hills on which Lisbon lies bestow the city with an urban rhythm that is part of its charming contrast to other European capitals. However, for the people who spend their lives in the city, climbing up by foot is rather less romantic and (...)

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   Centro de Documentação Siza Vieira

   Installed in the Matosinhos Arts Centre, the Álvaro Siza Documentation Centre offers complete documentation in a systematic manner concerning the work of this distinguished Portuguese architect.In addition to the bibliographical and documentation (...)

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   Fonte de Santiago

   On the south side of Largo de Santiago, the fountain of the same name is actually a covered public washhouse with a water fountain outside. The unusual 16th century square design was built on the orders of archbishop Diogo de Sousa to improve the (...)

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   Small villages near Alcácer do Sal

   Santa Susana villageNot far from the Pego de Altar dam, the village of Santa Susana (Saint Susan) holds quite some novelty: buildings in modernist architecture from the 40s. They were built by the benefactor, Henrique Louro Fernandes, whose monogram (...)

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   Saint Roch

   Saint Roch was born in Montpellier (France) in the middle of the 14th century with his saints day celebrated on 16th August. His name came from the birthmark he bore on his chest that took the shape of a red cross (rouge #MAIOR# roc). Orphaned at a (...)

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   Instituto Superior Técnico e Alameda D. Afonso Henriques

   The campus of the Instituto Superior Técnico (Higher Technical Institute) is one of the main works of modernism in Portugal, designed in 1927 by the architect, Porfírio Pardal Monteiro.The Campus is constituted by several low-lying buildings that as (...)

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   Cister in the North of Portugal

   The Northern region constituted the gateway to Portugal for the Cistercian order during the first half of the 12th century. The Abbey of São João de Tarouca, to the South of the River Douro, was the first institution to begin to observe the Order in (...)

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    Treasury of the Sé Cathedral

    After the sacristy and upper cloister, we encounter the Museum of Sacred Art of the Sé cathedral in Viseu which occupies various rooms, including the elegant and ancient Chapter room. Decorated in an 18th century style, the room has a ceiling (...)

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