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Biblioteca Municipal de Ovar - Pólo de Esmoriz
- heritage
Rua dos Castanheiros (EN 109-4), 1076
3885-555, Esmoriz


Convento de São Francisco
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Avenida da Guarda Inglesa, 1-A - Calçada de Santa Isabel
3040-193, Coimbra
Austere and simple monastic set, showing the Franciscan spirit that was in its foundation. Worthy of notice are the cloister, with classical lines and the refectory with cloister vaults and the decoration with glazed tiles characteristic of this period.

Centro Português de Fotografia
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Largo Amor de Perdição
4050-008, Porto
Instalado no edifício da antiga Cadeia da Relação, o Centro Português de Fotografia foi criado em 1997, ainda antes da total requalificação e ampliação. Desde 2001, o Centro oferece um programa anual de exposições temporárias a par do Núcleo Museológico permanente que inclui uma tão rara quanto valiosa exposição de máquinas fotográficas. Os visitantes podem aceder ainda a uma biblioteca especializada, uma loja, e um serviço gratuito de visitas guiadas ao edifício e às exposições.

Quinta das Lágrimas
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Estrada das Lágrimas
3040-266, Coimbra
The importance of this place is mainly connected to the history of Pedro and Inês. The Quinta has a romantic beauty, with some botanic exemplars, the gothic window and the fountain (pointed out as being the “Fonte dos Amores” sang by Camões.

Núcleo Arqueológico da Rua dos Correeiros (NARC)
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Rua dos Correeiros, 9
1100-161, Lisboa
This archaeological nucleus is devoted to the different phases of the Lisbon downtown, presenting the successive structures built in this city area, since the roman period until the XVIII century.


Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado
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Rua Serpa Pinto, 4
1200-444, Lisboa
The Chiado Museum or Modern Art National Museum, offers a panoramic of the Portuguese art from 1850 to 1960, from the romantic to the modernism period, going through the naturalism, the surrealism and the abstractionism periods. Subordinated to the theme “From Columbano till the Modernism”, this is the biggest collection of Portuguese contemporaneous art, with paintings, sculpture and drawings. It also has a French art collection from the end of the XIX century.

Museu Nacional do Traje
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Largo Júlio de Castilho, 2
1600-483, Lisboa
Located at the Angeja-Palmela palace, this museum integrates collections of civil clothes from the XIV to the XX centuries, popular clothes, opera dresses, accessories, toys from the XIX and XX centuries, among other curiosities. In order to maintain the conservation of its collections it has temporary exhibitions of the 35 thousand pieces it owns, organizing thematic shows. The permanent exhibition is about the textile technology. The museum has also a library specialized in the clothing history.

Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança
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Estrada do Lumiar, 10
1600-495, Lisboa
Located at the former Monteiro-Mor Palace, the museum exhibits a large panoply of objects related to the theatre. The exhibition includes pictures, humoristic vignettes, clothes and stage props and many other objects evocative of the life and career of personalities related to the acting art. It has a special collection consecrated to the fado singer Amália Rodrigues.
