Museums, Monuments and Sites
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Number of results: 61
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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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Museums and PalacesPalácio Nacional de SintraSintra National Palace The Sintra national palace is unique amongst the royal mediaeval palaces in Portugal and the town’s most distinctive building.Beginning with the nation’s first dynasties, Sintra was one of the preferred places of Portuguese (...)
Telephone: +351 219 237 300
Fax: +351 219 237 350
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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Museums and PalacesPaço dos Duques de BragançaThe construction of the palace of the Dukes of Bragança, its design inspired by that of the typical French manor houses, was begun in the early 15th century. It was commissioned by D. Afonso de Barcelos, the first duke of Bragança and the bastard (...)
Telephone: +351 253 412 273
E-mail: pduques@culturanorte.pt
Website: http://pduques.culturanorte.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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Museums and PalacesMuseu Luso-Hebraico de Abraham Zacuto - SinagogaWith a very discreet façade, like nearly all Jewish places of worship in the Christian world, the interior of the little synagogue in Tomar is a surprise. The roof is supported by 4 columns representing the mothers of Israel: Sarah, Rachel, Rebecca (...)
Telephone: +351 249 329 814
Fax: +351 249 329 811
E-mail: museologia@cm-tomar.pt
Website: http://www.cm-tomar.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de MarinhaFounded by King D. Luís in 1863, 100 years later the Naval Museum was installed in part os the Jerónimos Monastery, becoming symbolically associated with the site that saw the Portuguese fleets setting out to discover the routes over the great (...)
Telephone: +351 21 362 00 19
Fax: +351 21 363 19 87
E-mail: geral.museu@marinha.pt
Website: http://ccm.marinha.pt/pt/museu
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Alberto SampaioThe Alberto Sampaio Museum was founded in 1928 to house the art and other objects belonging to the former Collegiate Church of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira and other churches and convents in Guimarães. It is situated in the heart of the old historic (...)
Telephone: +351 253 423 910
Fax: +351 253 423 919
E-mail: masampaio@culturanorte.pt
Website: http://masampaio.culturanorte.pt
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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 PalacesChalet da Condessa d´EdlaChalet of the Countess of EdlaAfter major restoration works in the wake of a fire that partially destroyed it, this building was opened to the public. It preserves the memory of one of the great love stories of Portuguese history and is included in (...)
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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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/ (...)
