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Centro Histórico de Ançã
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Ançã
3060, Ançã
A pleasant, wide space with a typical Portuguese pavement. It has a nice square with garden benches and trees that offer their shade.
Museu da Pedra
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Largo Cândido Reis, 4
3060-174, Cantanhede
This museum exhibits stone works from the parishes of Ançã, Portunhos and Outil. Inaugurated in 2001, it also exhibits several archaeological artefacts of the parish's pre-historic and roman sites and paleonthological finds.
Ermida Nossa Senhora Conceição dos Matos
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Alcochete
2890, Alcochete
With a rural type of architecture, the current hermitage was a part of the old palace that belonged to the family of Tristão da Cunha, the navigator who discovered one of the islands in the Atlantic Ocean that got his name, whose residence was located nearby.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Vida
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Rua do Norte
2890-061, Alcochete
A church with only one nave covered by a wood ceiling, ornament by an 18th century painting that represents the patron saint. The nave of the high altar is covred by tile panels of the 1700s.
Igreja de São Brás
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Praça da República
2890, Samouco
Located in the centre of the small town of Samouco, its interior is composed of one sole nave. The façade has a simple entrance, topped by a larg window with gratings, followed by a clock. Its main lines are of the 18th century, finished in the reign of Dona Maria I.
Museu de Arte Popular Portuguesa
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Praça Marquês de Pombal
3100-440, Pombal
A museum located at the Centro Cultural de Pombal (Cultural Centre of Pombal), with two thousand craftswork objects of the entire country that show the popular Portuguese arts.
Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Guia
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Avenida Nossa Senhora da Guia, 119
3105-089, Guia
Mannerist architecture and Baroque church consists of a nave, a chancel and a vestry located near. In the interior, especially the throne with an 18th century image of Nossa Senhora da Guia.
Capela da Misericórdia do Louriçal
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Rua da Misericórdia
3105-165, Louriçal
Chapel with a nave and a chancel high under the same roof. Highlighting the fact that the Tribune of the examiners to make communication between the House of the order and the ship, on the opposite side of the pulpit. The House of the dispatch presents a counter alpendrado and an access ladder. The current building, with traces Manueline, is dated 1608.
Palanque dos Duques de Aveiro
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Largo da Praça Velha
3100, Abiul
Outdoor grandstand built in masonry and brick, where sat the Dukes of Aveiro when attending public performances. It is located in a large paved, near the Abiul oven.
Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora das Neves
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Largo Nossa Senhora das Neves
3100-012, Abiul
Church of Baroque religious architecture, a single nave with main altar, sacristy, Baptistry and Bell Tower. The date of construction is not known. However, it was rebuilt in 1515 and then again in the 18th century.