Museums, Monuments and Sites
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Cerâmica - Caldas da RainhaOfficially created in 1983, the Ceramics Museum is housed in the Quinta Visconde de Sacavém, acquired for this purpose by the state in 1981.Having begun as a small group of pieces acquired by the Portuguese state, together with pieces from the (...)
Telephone: +351 262 840 280
Fax: +351 262 840 281
E-mail: mceramica@imc-ip.pt
Website: http://www.imc-ip.pt
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MonumentsCastelo e Muralhas de Celorico da BeiraCastle and walls of Celorico da Beira The castle consists of the wall with two towers and the keep. It is entered through a raised gate. The town climbs up the crag on which the castle stands and where there are remains of Manueline windows in some (...)
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MonumentsMosteiro de Santa Maria de Pombeiro
Telephone: +351 255 810 706 | +351 918 116 488
Fax: +351 255 810 709
E-mail: rotadoromanico@valsousa.pt
Website: https://www.rotadoromanico.com/pt/monumentos/mosteiro-de-san (...)
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MonumentsCapela das Aparições - FátimaThe Chapel, in the heart of the current Fátima Sanctuary, was built by local people in 1919 in response to the request made by Our Lady during one of the apparitions. The first mass to be held there was in 1921.Although subject to certain changes, (...)
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MonumentsTorre de DornesWith an unusual pentagonal layout, the tower in the village of Dornes was built by the Knights Templar on the banks of the River Zêzere as a watchtower and defensive bastion for the region, during the Christian Reconquest.Built from limestone and (...)
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MonumentsSé Catedral da GuardaOne of the most interesting Portuguese monuments.Although Guarda has been the seat of bishopric since its foundation, when D. Sancho I asked Pope Innocent III to transfer the diocese of Egitânia (Idanha-a-Velha) to the new city, the building that is (...)
Telephone: +351 271 212 993
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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