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   Igreja e Convento do Pópulo - Braga

   The 16th century Church of Populo was built on the orders of archbishop Brother Agostinho de Jesus, as his burial monument. He passed away in 1609, with his remains transferred in 1628 to a wooden tomb, ordered by the city of Braga, and located in (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 253 271 982

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   Igreja de Santa Maria - Lagos

   Church of Santa Maria - LagosBuilt in the 15th century, the church has a rectangular layout, single nave, and elevated main chapel, baptistery and high choir. Laterally, with direct communication to the nave, there is an intricately carved masonry (...)

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   Convento de São Francisco - Santarém

   The convent of São Francisco was founded by the king D. Sancho II, in 1242. As happened with the similar Convento de Santa Clara, the convent was built in accordance with the architectural guidelines of the mendicant Gothic style: austerity in terms (...)

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   Museums and Palaces

   Museu da Indústria Baleeira

   The Whaling Industry Museum is currently housed in the premises of the former Whaleboat Factory, where by-products were manufactured from the whales that were caught in the course of what was one of the main activities of the archipelago of the (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 292 679 349
   E-mail: museu.pico.info@azores.gov.pt
   Website: http://www.museu-pico.azores.gov.pt/museu/museu-da-industria (...)
   

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   Museums and Palaces

   Museu do Mar - Rei D.Carlos

   The museum has a collection of natural history (particularly interesting are the sections devoted to the study of fish, mammals, birds, molluscs and fossils), nautical and underwater archaeology, ethnography (including collections of traditional (...)
   
   Telephone: ´351 214 861 377
   Fax: +351 214 836 268
   E-mail: museumar.dpat.dec@cm-cascais.pt

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   Archaeology

   Anta Capela de São Brissos

   Chapel of São Brissos CromlechMegalithic funerary monument that has been adapted into a Christian chapel.

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   Igreja de Santiago - Coimbra

   Documents say that this church was consecrated in the year 1206, but there is a tradition that places its foundation in the time of Fernando I, king of León, who, on recapturing Coimbra from the Moors in 1064, founded a church dedicated to St. James (...)

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   Museums and Palaces

   Museu Arqueológico Martins Sarmento

   The Martins Sarmento Society is a cultural institution founded in 1881. It holds a diversified and valuable patrimony, including the Martins Sarmento Archaeological Museum, main reference of pre-roman cultures in Portugal and one of the most (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 253 415 969
   E-mail: sms@msarmento.org
   Website: http://www.csarmento.uminho.pt
   

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   Capela de Nossa Senhora da Penha de França - Vista Alegre

   The Our Lady of Penha de França ChapelWithin the architectural diversity of the Vista Alegre Factory, this seventeenth century chapel, a national monument and artistic jewel, houses one of the most luxurious tombs in the region: the mausoleum of (...)

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    Museums and Palaces

    Museu dos Biscaínhos

    The Museum of Biscaínhos is located in a beautiful residential Palace of a form noble family, who built it in the 17th century.  This wonderful example of civil Barroque architecture style demonstrates what Baroque society was like in a noble (...)
    
    Telephone: +351 253 204 650
    Fax: +351 253 204 658
    E-mail: mbiscainhos@museusemonumentos.pt
    Website: https://museudosbiscainhos.gov.pt/
    

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