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Biblioteca Municipal de Santa Cruz das Flores
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Rua da Conceição
9970-320, Santa Cruz das Flores
Library with a collection of about 35 thousand volumes. It consists of a toys and games library, infantile and juvenile sections and a reading area.
Baía da Ribeira da Silva (Fajã Pedro Vieira)
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Fajã Pedro Vieira
9970-010, Santa Cruz das Flores
Small Bay of great natural beauty, located north of the port of Skull. Did you get your name to one of the first settlers of the island.
Convento de São Boaventura
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Rua do Hospital
9970-320, Santa Cruz das Flores
This convent has its origins in a donation dated 1641, in which the Priest Ignatius Rabbit offered the land to deploy the convent and the respective fence. In the interior, especially the Baroque carved polychrome altarpieces of the main altar and the side altarpieces.
Farol do Albarnaz
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Estrada do Farol
9970, Santa Cruz das Flores
Lighthouse located at the northern tip of the island, called tip of the Albarnaz, about a hundred meters of altitude. It is a circular tower with 9.5 feet high.
Museu das Flores
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Largo da Misericórdia - Convento de São Boaventura
9970-303, Santa Cruz das Flores
Created in 1986, it is located in the old Convent of Saint Boaventura, with two different areas. It exhibits fishing objects, namely related to whaling. On the other hand, it tells of the history of cattle breeding, dairy products and tapestries.
Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
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Rua da Conceição
9970-320, Santa Cruz das Flores
Large church, built in the 19th century, the bell towers and the facade trimmed by large Windows. Inside, the chancel deserves attention.
Igreja Matriz de Alvadia / Igreja de Santa Cruz
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Rua da Igreja
4870-011, Igreja
Mannerist architecture church with nave and chancel. Features, inside, chorus-high, holy water sinks, gomadas to flank the portals, baptistery in round Arch on the Gospel side, niche in round Arch on the opposite, with side altarpieces of carved late-Baroque altarpiece carved chancel and revivalist.
Estação de Arte Rupestre de Lamelas
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Lamelas
4870-106, Lamelas
The Cave paintings in Lamela are composed with granitic effleurage with enormous dimensions in which, its superior part is covered with cave sculptures, namely simple and composed geometric figures such as concentric circles, lines, reticulated and perforated. It should also be mentioned an oval ditch, half dig on the extreme east from the sculptured piece. It is classified as Building of Public Interest.
Roteiro Camiliano
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Ribeira de Pena
4870-159, Ribeira de Pena
Cultural itinerary which covers locations traversed by the writer Camilo Castelo Bank in Ribeira de Pena or referred to by this in their literary works. They are seven: Fishing bridge (referred to in the story "How she loved him!" and the play "the Werewolf"), the settlement of Friúme (where the writer lived between 1840 and 1842), Church of the Savior (where he married at the age of 16 years of age with Joaquina Pereira de France in 1841), Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Guia (referred to in "Twelve happy marriages"), Chapel of the Old Farm (where the writer has learned …
Ponte de Arame
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Rua da Veiga
4870-253, Santo Aleixo de Além-Tâmega
The construction of this bridge dates from 1913, with the goal of establishing communication between the parishes of Salvador and de Santo Aleixo de Plus-Tâmega that before was for "fillies" and "prey" which allowed the passage to Ford and, later, by ferries. The bridge is suspended by wires twisted about themselves, more than a hundred over almost 20 meters, which rely on granite pillars on each side of the bridge. The wooden walkway has 1.5 meters wide, and forms the basis of the side walls of the structure, also on wire rope. The story goes that the idea for this …