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Cultural Centers in Beja
Núcleo Museológico da Rua do Sembrano
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Rua do Sembrano
7800, Beja
This space integrates a collection of archaeological remains of great importance for reconstructing the city's history. Here you can find traces from the medieval and modern periods, and even from the Roman era and the Iron Age.
Pax Julia - Teatro Municipal de Beja
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Largo de São João
7800-416, Beja
The Municipal Theatre - Pax Julia has the largest performance hall in the south of the country. In addition to presenting music, theater and dance performances, it hosts a wide variety of activities: film screenings, conferences, congresses, exhibitions, gatherings, café-concerts, etc. It has a large auditorium, a studio room, a foyer, a spacious cafeteria, technical areas, dressing rooms and various offices.
Museu Regional de Beja / Museu Rainha Dona Leonor
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Largo da Conceição
7800-131, Beja
The museum is housed in the Convent of Our Lady of the Conception, founded in 1459 by the Infantes D. Fernando and D. Brites. Highlights include the 17th-century Portuguese tiles, the 16th-century Sevillian tiles, and the Baroque vault of the Chapter Room. Also, noteworthy are the paintings produced in Portugal, Spain, and Holland between the 15th and 18th centuries, the Roman section, and the collection of large classical capitals from the Forum of the Ancient Pax Julia (Roman Beja).
Biblioteca Municipal de Beja José Saramago
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Rua Luís de Camões
7800-508, Beja
Municipal library named after the Nobel of literature, José Saramago. The library has several sectors: adult, juvenile, multimedia (13 computers with internet); audiovisual, periodical; pedagogical resources centre (backup to schools by lending materials.
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal de Beja José Saramago
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Rua Luís de Camões
7800-508, Beja
Small amphitheatre used for varied cultural events.
Museu Botânico de Beja
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Escola Superior Agrária de Beja - Rua Pedro Soares s/n, Apartado 6158
7801-908, Beja
A small botanical museum where one can view different exhibitions throughout the year, related to economical botanics or ethnobotanics. In that manner, one can get acquainted with the usage of the plants, as well as spices, fibres and colouring agents, gums, resins, aromatic and medicinal herbs, oil seeds, cereals, seeds and exotic fruits, ornamental plants and psycho-active plants.
Museu Jorge Vieira / Casa das Artes
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Casa do Governador, Largo Dr. Lima Faleiro
7800-266, Beja
A museum with a permanent exhibition of scultures by Jorge Vieira. Guided tours under previous appointment, painting, clay and drawing ateliers, also under appointment, for children from kindergarten to the 6th year. It has two rooms for temporary exhibitions, a formation roo, a documentation centre, a cafeteria and temporary residence for artists.
Galeria Municipal dos Escudeiros
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Rua dos Escudeiros, 30
7800-494, Beja
Space that shelters temporary exhibitions.
Praça de Touros José Varela Crujo
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Largo Francisco Mendes
7800-298, Beja
Plaza de Toros de Beja.