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Monuments in Vila Nova de Gaia

Ao Escultor Henrique Moreira - Homenagem do Povo de Avintes

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Largo de Catorze de Maio
4430, Avintes

Vila Nova de Gaia

Bronze bust of the sculptor Henrique Moreira, placed on a granite wall.

Estátua do Padre Antunes da Assunção Saúde

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Rua do Calvário
4415, Sandim

Vila Nova de Gaia

A bronze bust over a granite base with the inscription: “Father Artur da Assunção Saúde performed his duties in this parish from 1/2/1908 to 30/5/1967. He arrived poor and left poor".

Monumento da Virgem Maria Imaculada

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Monte da Virgem
4430, Vila Nova de Gaia

Vila Nova de Gaia

An image of the Immaculate Virgin Mary over a high pedestal.

Escultura em Homenagem ao Padre Missionário José G. Araújo

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Rua da Escola Central
4430, Avintes

Vila Nova de Gaia

A modern stainless steel sculpture, with a bronze bust that has the inscription: "Go and teach all the people".

Monumento ao Moleiro de Sandim

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Rua Sá
4415, Sandim

Vila Nova de Gaia

A bronze sculpture representing a miller on top of a millstone, with a hammer in is hand.

Homenagem à Subida de Pedroso a Vila

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Rua Paul Pedroso
4415, Pedroso

Vila Nova de Gaia

A big shapeless stone with a tablet remembering the date that Pedroso became a small town.

Homenagem ao Pedreiro de Canelas

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Largo Nuno Brito e Cunha
4410, Canelas

Vila Nova de Gaia

A bronze statue representing a mason working a granite stone.

Aqueduto do Mosteiro de Grijó

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Rua da Associação Desportiva (junto ao Mosteiro de Grijó)
4415-434, Carvalhos

Vila Nova de Gaia

Also known as Amoreiras Aqueduct or Murracezes, this monument built in the eighteenth century (probably in 1765) is a private civil engineering. In architectural terms, the aqueduct has a width of about two feet and a height ranging between one-and-a-half and eight metres, as the slope of the terrain. In the final section, which ends in fountain, presents an arcade consisting of fourteen arches full of great dimension.

Casa do Fojo

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Rua do Fojo
4400-459, Vila Nova de Gaia

Vila Nova de Gaia

Dating from the 18TH century, Casa do Fojo is a two storey building, of great sobriety and great balance, located just outside of the ceramic factory do fojo. The facade is formed by three bodies, with the sides ripped through a window, ending in an arc with a cross on top.

Monte Murado

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Pedroso
4415, Pedroso

Vila Nova de Gaia

Walled proto-historic Romanised village. There are remains of walls of the houses, some street layouts and several lines of walls.

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