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   Monuments

   Castelo ou Forte de São Filipe

   Around 1 km from the city of Setúbal, there is the imposing Fort of São Filipe (Saint Philip) guarding access to the Sado river. It is named after the king who ordered its construction, Filipe I of Portugal and the II of Spain, in 1590. Italian (...)

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   Monuments

   Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Piedade - Tomar

   A 14th-century sanctuary on the outskirts of the city.The Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy - former Chapel of Our Lady of the Hill - was built in 1397 by the governor of Óbidos, a village where the Virgin is a patron saint and recipient of particular (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 249 322 427

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   Monuments

   Castelo de Lamego

   At the highest point in the city stands the castle, built in the twelfth century to watch over and defend the region. It is reached via the Rua da Olaria.The sturdy keep, which dominates the whole of the walled enclosure of the former parade ground, (...)

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   Monuments

   Torre Medieval - Barcelos

   Between 1401 and 1461, D. Afonso, the eighth Count of Barcelos and the first Duke of Bragança, ordered walls to be built around Barcelos, with three towers marking the entrances to the city. The Porta do Cimo da Vila was the only gate that was to (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 253 824 261
   E-mail: torremedieval@cm-barcelos.pt

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   Monuments

   Muralhas de Serpa

   King Dinis ordered the building of this imposing defensive structure made of sturdy walls stretching up to the imposing turrets. However, given its strategic location on the Roman road connecting Beja with the south of Hispania, in addition to its (...)

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   Marinas and Harbours

   Marina de Vilamoura

   With its 825 berths, the Marina at Vilamoura is the largest in the country.After passing through the entrance at the bar (which has never been closed), there is a safe anchorage protected by two jetties (the western one is 660 metres long and the (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 289 310 560
   Fax: +351 289 310 580
   E-mail: marinavilamoura@vilamouraworld.com
   Website: http://www.marinadevilamoura.com
   

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   Towns and Villages

   Ilha de Porto Santo

   Getting to know Porto Santo means discovering the first port that provided access to the epic maritime adventure of the Portuguese discoverers.This was the first of all the islands discovered by the Portuguese navigators and it contains within its (...)

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   Towns and Villages

   Nazaré

   A typical fishing town, Nazaré is nowadays a busy summer resort, where side by side with the crowds of tourists, one still sees all over the streets of the town the fish-sellers, and the carapaus (horse mackerel) laid out to dry. The Sítio district, (...)

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   Towns and Villages

   Ponta Delgada

   Ponta Delgada began as a simple fishing village whose fishermen were once attracted by its safe coves, but soon began to play the role of main port of the São Miguel Island.The city grew and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the convents, (...)

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    Towns and Villages

    Pombal

    It was the Master of the Templars Dom Gualdim Pais who, in the 12th century, ordered the building of the Pombal Castle (which the town developed around), in a region that was then the dividing line between the territory already reconquered by the (...)

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