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Biblioteca Municipal de Baião / Biblioteca Municipal António Mota
- heritage
Avenida 25 de Abril
4640-142, Baião
This cultural space offers several services: home loan, referral service, carrying out activities to promote books and reading aimed at both the school community and the public.
Jardim da Rua Eça de Queirós
- country
- leisure
Rua Eça de Queirós
4640, Baião
Beautiful and careful garden with leafy trees.
Parque da Fraga do Rio
- country
- leisure
Campelo
4640, Baião
A park with stone tables and benches, much vegetation and luxujrious trees.
Piscina Municipal de Baião
- leisure
Rua Abel Ribeiro
4640-103, Campelo
Has two swimming pools: one indoor and one outdoor, for the warmer season. It has swimming and water aerobics classes for adults and children.
Miradouro de Frende
- country
- leisure
Rua Central de Frende
4640, Baião
A place with amazing views of the neighbouring hills.
Núcleo Arqueológico de Chã de Parada
- heritage
Loivos do Monte
4640, Loivos do Monte
Set four megalithic dolmens, some with engravings on its mainstays.
Casa do Lavrador - Museu Rural e Etnográfico
- heritage
Estrada Nossa Senhora do Martírio, 667
4640-414, Santa Cruz do Douro
Casa do Lavrador is a rural and ethnographic museum, which is part of the Cultural and Recreational Association of Santa Cruz do Douro. It was built in 1999, in honor of Augusto Gomes dos Santos, honorary president of the Portuguese Folklore Federation. This space portrays a peasant's house from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Igreja de São Tiago de Valadares
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Valadares
4640-580, Valadares
Small dimensions temple that we can include already in the Gothic period, although of possible previous foundation. Simple façade, where a portal with a broken arch opens, with two archivolts, the interior being decorated with spheres. Despite the sobriety of the building, with few spans and heavy verticality, the interior features one of the most important mural painting from the 15th century preserved in Portugal.
Ponte de Esmoriz
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Caminho da Ponte de Esmoriz
4640-015, Ancede
Located over the river Ovil, Ponte de Esmoriz is framed in a landscape still marked by a strong rurality. As in the case of Panchorra, in Resende, the Ponte de Esmoriz reflects the late use of quite remote constructive models. Consisting of a single round arch, it is part of the set of road crossings associated with the religious and economic importance of the neighboring Monastery of Ancede.
Conjunto Megalítico da Aboboreira
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Ovil
4640, Ovil
It comprises five monuments and two associated peripheral structures, part of the Serra da Aboboreira Megalithic Ensemble. In this core there are monuments dating from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age.