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Museu Nacional Ferroviário - Núcleo Museológico de Lousado
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Largo da Estação, 2
4760-626, Lousado
The Railroad Museum, situated in Castlebar train station, features an exhibition of rolling stock, organized chronologically, with the aim of showing trains of various types.
Museu da Fundação Cupertino de Miranda
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Praça Dona Maria II
4760-111, Vila Nova de Famalicão
The Museu da Fundação Cupertino de Miranda seeks to publicize the modern and contemporary art, especially surrealism. Has as main objectives the study, documentation, conservation and dissemination of its collection. With an important collection made up essentially by Portuguese artists, reinforces an increasingly representative heritage of Portuguese surrealism.
Museu Bernardino Machado
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Palacete Barão de Trovisqueira - Rua Adriano Pinto Basto, 79
4760-114, Vila Nova de Famalicão
Located in the old palace of the Baron de Trovisqueira, the Museum Bernardino Machado is a space which seeks to dignify the memory of this illustrious statesman famalicense. The collection consists of multiple cores and depicts the period 1835 to 1944. There's still room for temporary exhibitions and regularly are promoted workshops.
Casa-Museu Soledade Malvar
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Avenida 25 de Abril, 104
4760-101, Vila Nova de Famalicão
The Casa-Museu Soledade Maclean is a space that results from donation to City Hall of Vila Nova de Famalicão art collection of Maria da Soledade Maclean.
Casa-Museu de Camilo Castelo Branco
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Avenida de São Miguel, 758
4770-631, São Miguel de Seide
The House Museum of Camilo (a 19th century romantic novelist) aims to acquire, research, preserve and exhibit the writer's material heritage.
Igreja de Santiago de Antas
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Rua Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires, 1695
4760-037, Igreja
This Romanic church was built on the 13th century and here one stands out the paintings and the main chapel carving and the ceiling with coffers. The doorway is topped by a rose window and it possesses four archivolts settled in four columns with decorated capitals. The nave has rather big dimensions and finishes in triumphal arch with two half columns and capitals with zoomorphic decoration.
Mosteiro de Landim
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Quinta do Mosteiro
4770-328, Landim
This Convent was donated to the Canons regular of Augustinian Rule was sacred on the 16th century after some renovations. In 1562 it started to belong to the friars from Santa Cruz de Coimbra convent and was extinguished in 1770. This construction is under the renaissance style and it has some important features from it, such as the church, the Monastery house and all the land inside of the fence.
Edifício da Estação do Barreiro
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Avenida Batalhão de Sapadores de Caminhos de Ferro
2830-303, Barreiro
A building where the Barreiro CP train station used to function, inaugurated in 1881. Its main façade faces Lisbon.
Campo Arqueológico da Mata da Machada
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Mata Nacional da Machada - Vale de Zebro
2830, Palhais
A ceramics oven dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries that used to produce tableware and industrial use artefacts.This archaeologic set is located at the Machada Woods.
Campo Arqueológico da Real Fábrica de Vidros Cristalinos de Coina
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Coina
2830, Coina
Ruins of the Royal glassworks established in the 18th century, in 1719. This factory produced glass white, crystalline type glass, glazing, mirrors and green glass. In 1747, due to lack of vegetable fuel, was transferred to the Marinha Grande. Currently only a few traces remain.