Museums, Monuments and Sites
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Number of results: 15
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Museums and PalacesPalácio Nacional da PenaPena National Palace The fantastic Palácio da Pena is one of the best examples of 19th-century Romantic revivalism in Portugal.Situated at the top of the Monte da Pena, the palace was built on the site of an old monastery belonging to the Order of (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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ArchaeologyCitânia de BriteirosAfter the 2nd millennium BC, the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula was settled by human communities organised into tribes, which inhabited high locations named "castros". Due to the similarity of the settlers' buildings in various different sites, (...)
Telephone: +351 253 478 952
E-mail: citania@msarmento.org
Website: http://www.csarmento.uminho.pt
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Museums and PalacesPalácio e Parque de MonserratePark and Palace of Monserrate This fantastic Romantic park was created by William Beckford, who fell in love with the Serra de Sintra.The park and palace of Monserrate, formerly a farm with fruit orchards and crop fields, were first imagined by (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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MonumentsMosteiro de Santa Clara-a-VelhaThe Mosteiro de Santa Clara was built in 1314 at the orders of the Queen Saint Isabel of Aragon, replacing a small convent of nuns of the Order of St. Clare, founded in 1286. The building was completed in 1330, having been designed by the architect (...)
Telephone: +351 239 801 160
Fax: +351 239 801 169
E-mail: mosteiro.scvelha@drcc.pt
Website: http://santaclaraavelha.drcc.pthttp://www.facebook.com/mosteiro.santaclara.a.velha
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de AveiroNew project of magnifying of the Museum, of the authorship of arquitecto Alcino Soutinho, is characterized for an architectural building modern, endowed with audience, destined room the temporary expositions, educative services, library, laboratory (...)
Telephone: +351 234 423 297 - 234 383 188
Fax: +351 234 421 749
E-mail: maveiro@drcc.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Nacional Grão VascoFounded in 1915 by Francisco de Almeida Moreira, who devoted much of his life to collecting Portuguese works of art, especially those that were representative of the best Portuguese modern and contemporary painters, the Grão Vasco Museum is housed (...)
Telephone: +351 232 422 049
Fax: +351 232 421 241
E-mail: mngv@mngv.dgpc.pt
Website: http://www.museunacionalgraovasco.gov.pt/http://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/pt/museus-e-monumentos/ (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Artes DecorativasMuseu de Artes Decorativas (Museum of Decorative Arts) Housed in an 18th century mansion - the Teixeira Barbosa Maciel family coat of arms can be seen on the façade - the Viana do Castelo Municipal Museum dedicated to the decorative arts (...)
Telephone: +351 258 809 305 - 258 820 377
Fax: +351 258 824 223
E-mail: museu.a.a@cm-viana-castelo.pt
Website: http://www.cm-viana-castelo.pt
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Museums and PalacesCentro de Arte Contemporânea Graça MoraisOpened in 2008, the Graça Morais Contemporary Art Centre was designed by Souto Moura, the well-known Portuguese architect who was named the 2011 Pritsker Prize laureate. It offers a wide program of temporary exhibitions of the most respected (...)
Telephone: +351 373 302 410
Fax: +351 273 202 416
E-mail: centro.arte@cm-braganca.pt
Website: http://centroartegracamorais.cm-braganca.pt
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Museums and PalacesCasa de Camilo - Museu / Centro de EstudosCamilo’s House – MuseumNot having, however, the main characteristics that define the residence of the “brasileiro de torna viagem” (“the returning back Brazilian”), S. Miguel de Seide house was built around 1830, with the money saved in Brazil by (...)
Telephone: +351 252 327 186 (Museu) / 252 09 750 (Centro de Estudos)
E-mail: geral@camilocastelobranco.org
Website: http://www.camilocastelobranco.org
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Arte NovaThe Art Noveau Museum, housed in one of the most emblematic buildings of this artistic current, is the interpretive center of the extensive network of Art Noveau motifs throughout the city of Aveiro.More than restoring the ornamental environment of (...)
Telephone: +351 234 406 485
E-mail: museucidade@cm-aveiro.pt
Website: http://mca.cm-aveiro.pt
