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Conjunto Escultórico da Rotunda da Varela
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Rotunda da Varela
3870-303, Torreira
Monument that represents the four parishes of the municipality (Murtosa, Monte, Bunheiro and Torreira), the activities of the countryside, the estuary and the sea, associated with the four seasons of the year. The center column is the unifying element, with the same images as the side elements, but in a reduced size.
Antigo Asilo-Hospital de São Lourenço / Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Murtosa
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Rua António José Freitas Guimarães
3870-208, Murtosa
This building is currently owned by Santa Casa da Misericórdia, where there is a home and a library. It only maintains the facade, the only element of the previous monument.
Capela de São Simão
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Rua Cônego Manuel Nédio de Sousa
3870-031, Bunheiro
Small funeral chapel, built at the beginning of the 17th century. It has a popular style and is quite simple in decorative terms. It consists of a cylindrical body, with a bell tower attached to its dome, and a rectangular main chapel.
Casa Museu Custódio Prato
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Rua dos Passadouros, 40
3870-028, Bunheiro
Housed in a house with traditional architecture in the region, it features ethnography collections and an interesting display of some traditional crafts.
Museu Etnográfico da Murtosa
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Praça Doutor Araújo e Castro, 3
3870-155, Murtosa
The Museum is made up of three rooms with a total area of around 232 m2, dedicated to three themes: Earth, House and Water, representative activities of Murtosa. It displays objects linked to land preparation, harvesting, fishing, sargassum harvesting, food, spinning and weaving, transport, work and party clothing, household contents, lighting, miniature boats, religious objects and musical instruments.
Museu de Nordeste
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Rua Dona Maria do Rosário, 5
9630-144, Nordeste
Museum opened in 1989 that brings together a vast and varied ethnographic collection. Here you can find various pieces, such as agricultural utensils, old costumes, antique crockery, etc.
Ponte dos Sete Arcos
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Rua Jorge M. Reis Machado, 20
9630, Nordeste
This bridge serves as an entrance to the center of the village of Nordeste for those coming from Ribeira Grande and Ponta Delgada and was built in 1882. Not even its narrow width hides its beauty, one of the most beautiful in the entire archipelago. At night, with the lamps lit, it seems to take us back to the end of the 19th century.
Dólmen do Turgal
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Britelo
3630, Penela da Beira
Monument belonging to the Necropolis of Senhora do Monte (consisting of eight dolmens). This dolmen is formed by two stones holding a larger stone, which covers the tomb.
Dólmen do Carvalhal
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Britelo
3630, Penela da Beira
One of the eight dolmens belonging to the Senhora do Monte Necropolis.
Necrópole Megalítica de Lameira de Cima
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Quinta da Lameira de Cima
3630-145, Ourozinho
Set of two prehistoric funerary monuments, probably dating from the end of the 4th/3rd millennium BC.