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Memorial de Alpendorada
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Rua do Memorial
4575-032, Memorial
This monument was formed by a perfectly vaulted arch, above which it is placed a tomblike arch. According to the legend the tomb keeps the mortal remains from D. Souzinho Àlvares, a warrior from the Reconquest period.
Ermida de São Sebastião
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Outeiro do Peso
7490, Brotas
A 16th century chapel, consisting of nave, chancel and vestry and Bell and is the only building that remains of the Village of Eagles. Its construction follows the typology of hermitages and chapels centered in the region and the Muslim tubs, which were subsequently adding porches or nárteces. We highlight the main altarpiece in the interior, with modern traits of the late 18th century.
Igreja Velha de Rebordosa
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Rua Carvalhos do Cabo, 234
4585-374, Rebordosa
A church that dates back to 1645. A temple with a symmetric façade and only one bell. Inside, golden carvings and paintings on the ceiling.
Igreja de São Tomé / Igreja Matriz de Bitarães
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Avenida São Tomé
4580, Bitarães
This property was probably constructed during the 12th century and reconstructed in 1888. On the main façade there is a portico with three archivolt decorated with zoomorphic motifs and fitomorphic. The perfectly vaulted arches are settled in columns with worked capitals. On the inside, the main altar is in golden carving, the roof is filled by dozens of paintings representing biblical scenes and images with the apostles and saints. It also has a nativity scene typically baroque.
Igreja Velha de Besteiros
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Rua Padre Correia
4580, Besteiros
A small granite church. The main door ends in a triangular fronton and there are also two lateral openings.
Mosteiro de Santo Estevão de Vilela
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EM602, 441
4580-660, Vilela
The Santo Estevão de Vilela Monastery is composed of a church and of the monastery's house. It was built even before Portugal's foundation. By the church there is the old monatery's building, composed of three aisles with a square shape. There is a coat of arms on the main entrance that stands on a lintel in a segmetal arch that ends in a partial triangular shape. In the third aisle, a special note to the manuelin chimney. Inside the temple, the high altar is golden carved. The monastery is being restored and the space will be converted into a museum …
Capela de Santo António
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Largo de Santo António
4590, Freamunde
A baroque chapel of the 18th century. It has only one nave and a rectangular high altar. A special not to an image on the ceiling of the high altar of the Patron Saint, Saint Anthony.
Igreja Matriz de Eiriz / Igreja de São João Evangelista
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Largo Padre Mário Ferreira Barbosa
4590, Lugar do Ribeiro
This is a 16th century church made out of simple stones with a bell tower. Surrounding the church there are 12 Calvaries with 2 metres high. The plan is longitudinal and is composed by one only nave, main chapel and lateral chapel, sacristy and access hall and stairs giving access to the choir.
Torre Sineira e Conjunto de Cruzeiros de Meixomil
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Rua Senhora da Conceição
4595, Meixomil
A belltower surrounded by five crucifixes near the Church of the Imaculada Conceição.