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Biblioteca Municipal de Baião / Biblioteca Municipal António Mota
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Avenida 25 de Abril
4640-142, Baião
This cultural space offers several services: home loan, referral service, carrying out activities to promote books and reading aimed at both the school community and the public.
Núcleo Arqueológico de Chã de Parada
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Loivos do Monte
4640, Loivos do Monte
Set four megalithic dolmens, some with engravings on its mainstays.
Casa do Lavrador - Museu Rural e Etnográfico
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Estrada Nossa Senhora do Martírio, 667
4640-414, Santa Cruz do Douro
Casa do Lavrador is a rural and ethnographic museum, which is part of the Cultural and Recreational Association of Santa Cruz do Douro. It was built in 1999, in honor of Augusto Gomes dos Santos, honorary president of the Portuguese Folklore Federation. This space portrays a peasant's house from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Igreja de São Tiago de Valadares
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Valadares
4640-580, Valadares
Small dimensions temple that we can include already in the Gothic period, although of possible previous foundation. Simple façade, where a portal with a broken arch opens, with two archivolts, the interior being decorated with spheres. Despite the sobriety of the building, with few spans and heavy verticality, the interior features one of the most important mural painting from the 15th century preserved in Portugal.
Ponte de Esmoriz
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Caminho da Ponte de Esmoriz
4640-015, Ancede
Located over the river Ovil, Ponte de Esmoriz is framed in a landscape still marked by a strong rurality. As in the case of Panchorra, in Resende, the Ponte de Esmoriz reflects the late use of quite remote constructive models. Consisting of a single round arch, it is part of the set of road crossings associated with the religious and economic importance of the neighboring Monastery of Ancede.
Conjunto Megalítico da Aboboreira
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Ovil
4640, Ovil
It comprises five monuments and two associated peripheral structures, part of the Serra da Aboboreira Megalithic Ensemble. In this core there are monuments dating from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
Calçada Romana de Ribadouro
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EN211
4640, Ribadouro
Pedestrian route on Roman pavement between Ancêde and Ribadouro, on the left bank of the river Ovil, with about 2800 meters. It is one of several legacies left by ancient civilizations and, like other Roman pieces, this one was made using large stone blocks buried in a foundation. At the beginning of the route there is a large information board used for exploring this route.
Mosteiro de Santo André de Ancede
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Ancêde
4640-021, Ancede
Of the Romanesque construction of this important monastic church, first by the Canons Regular and later by the Dominicans, we can only point out the structure of the chancel, where the rose window stands out. All the rest of the monastic set, valuable for its artistic capital and for its local and regional influence, is the work of the Modern Period. We highlight the Baroque interventions that reveal a period of space revitalization in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Núcleo Museológico da Casa de Tormes
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Caminho Particular de Tormes - Quinta de Tormes
4640-424, Santa Cruz do Douro
The Casa de Tormes is an important museum center relating to the life and work of the writer Eça de Queiroz, as it houses all the assets that belonged to him. In addition to contributing to the preservation and dissemination of the memory of one of the greatest masters of Portuguese language and literature and his work, recognized nationally and internationally, this Foundation intends, above all, to make its heritage available for the cultural and educational elevation of the Portuguese in general, and specially the younger generation.
Conjunto Megalítico de Meninas do Crasto
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Rua do Ovil
4640, Baião
Megalithic set that displays five pillars and a large head slab. It is part of the nucleus of monuments of Meninas do Crasto and is part of the megalithic complex of Serra da Aboboreira.