Founded in the 13th century by the abbot of Alcobaça, the Monastery of Santa Maria de Coz was one of the most important monastic complexes in the region and the most important monastery of the female branch of the Cistercian Order. The current building, of impressive simplicity, derives from works carried out mainly in the 17th century. The sober aspect of the exterior of the building contrasts with the Baroque interior. The church, about 50 meters long, reveals the grandeur of the old monastery and has coffered wooden ceilings, 17th-18th century tiles, and gilded altarpieces.

To prove the best Portuguese countryside delights in sophisticated surroundings, nothing like the Viriato restaurant, located at the Pousada de Viseu. With a capacity for 100 guests, the restaurant has a wide Charter of specialities of the region, starting with the sausages, offered on a bed of fried bread. Enjoy the delicious bacalhau à Pousada, with mayonnaise and red peppers. In meats, venture out by the loin of beef on Laurel Dick with cheese sauce. To top it off, let you try the buffet of sweets, where the rice pudding takes prominent place.

With a good view over the Bay of São Martinho, nothing better to do than sit here while feasting seafood. The house specialties are based on seafood and fish every day from lota from Nazaré. Their extensive list out daily made dishes the accuracy as are the case of rice of cod tongues, the fish cataplana, the grilled sole to salt, or sea bass in the oven. For lovers of good seafood the list is vast and distinguished: seafood parrilhada and cataplana, spider crab and edible crab are high on the list.

At the restaurant Café Rotunda, on Pico Island, may be on the Esplanade in front of the port to watch the fishing movement while drinks a glass of three of vinho de cheiro, produced there close. On the table there are snacks, many and varied, some even rare to find in other places of the Azores. Here serves up fried moray eel to the posta €0,80 and crabs at the same unit price. The squid came out the € 2 and the broad beans, each small dish, € 1. Note that some of these specialties are only for the parties. …

Unique space in Estremoz, combines the aspects of traditional cuisine restaurant and grocery store, on the basis snacks. The atmosphere is informal and very familiar. The decoration is inspired in the Alentejo, which occupies a prominent position in the dishes served and in wines, that still, not be exhausted in this region. Also offers various options by the glass. Among the dishes served to reference, among others, the revolt of potatoes, a thousand leaves Alentejo with cod and prosciutto, and cheeks of spoonful. Both the wines and the regional products can be purchased at the grocery store, which also serves …

Small museum dedicated to the theme of the "Wine of the dead". Were the French invasions that came cause the appearance of this today is a real ex-libris of Boticas. It was during the second French invasion (1808) and in face of the advance of the troops commanded by General Soult, which in its passage all pillaged, pillaged and destroyed, the population of Boticas, to try to defend its heritage, decided to hide by burying, what was more valuable. The wine was buried in the floor of cellars, on clay, under the cask and mills. Later, after the French were …

In its time, it was one of the largest Cistercian monasteries in Portugal, the grantee of vast lands around it, with the obligation to cultivate and populate them. Its construction began in 1155, shortly after the donation of the land made to the Order by Egas Moniz, assistant to D. Afonso Henriques, and his wife Teresa Afonso. It was consecrated in 1255, when the monastic complex was complete. The church, of large dimensions, stands out, imposing, in the middle of the uniform houses of the small village that was formed to the east. Between the centuries. In the 16th and …

The small town of Belmonte is located on a hill, on the east slope of the Estrela Mountain, by the Cova da Beira and the Zêzere River. The romanesque church of Saint Tiago and the castle stand out in its urban medieval set, as well as the Tower "Centum Cellas", of the 1st to 4th centuries AD, built by the romans, and several vestiges of menhirs and castros (a celtic village). The local Jewish community, that still keeps to the old habits, is an interesting feature. The new church has the image that Pedro Álvares Cabral may have taken on …

Built at the location of an old castro (a celtic village), near the Távora river, the romanesque Mother Church of Saint John the Baptist stands out, with its portal and its archivolts, the niches, the carvings and a visigoth chapiter. On the lovely and well preserved square, one finds the pillory (Public Interest Construction). A special note to the houses of Comenda da Ordem de Malta and of the Barons of Moçâmedes, the Carvalhos Manor, the bridges on the Medreiro and Abade rivers, the Fountain of the Chafurdo da Ponte do Rio and the Monaster's Convent as well. The local …

Being the most ancient library in the Invicta city, founded in 1833 and placed at the former Santo António da Cidade Convent, a XVIII century construction, presently classified as Public Interest Building. The library has more than 1 200 000 printed documents (monographs and periodical publications) and several special funds, among which we point out, for its sparseness, the manuscripts, from the Middle Ages to our times. This place has Internet access service, juvenile library, sound library (for the visual and motor handicapped) and photocopies, among other services.