Explore the best places
Heritage in Portugal
Casa-Museu Egas Moniz
- heritage
Rua Professor Doutor Egas Moniz
3860-078, Avanca
House-museum where objects belonging to Egas Moniz, the only Portuguese doctor to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine, in 1949, can be visited.
Estrada Romana e Ponte sobre o Rio Tinhela
- heritage
EN15
5090-138, Murça
Bridge with a single round arch.
Igreja Paroquial de Murça / Igreja de Santa Maria / Antiga Capela de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
- heritage
Praça 5 de Outubro, 1
5090-112, Murça
Church with baroque architecture with nave and chancel, sacristy and attached bell tower. Inside, it has a false barrel-vaulted, stucco roof, high choir, pulpits, and altarpieces in gilt and polychrome, Mannerist, aedicule type, the laterals and the chancel are baroque.
Percurso Pedreste do Rio Tinhela
- heritage
CM1285
5090, Murça
Two-kilometre pedestrian circuit, in full contact with nature.
Capela da Misericórdia de Murça
- heritage
Rua Alfredo Pinto, 2
5090-115, Murça
Chapel built in 1692 where the carved stonework stands out. The portico is flanked by four very elaborate columns. On the top there is a niche with an image. The inside is composed of a nave, highlighting the altarpieces.
Pelourinho de Murça
- heritage
Praça 5 de Outubro, 10
5090-112, Murça
A contemporary of King Manuel I, who granted the town a new charter in 1512, and being one of the best preserved in Portugal, the Pillory is built on eight steps, has a spiral shaft topped by a capital with heraldic symbols and is topped by five spiral pinnacles.
Crasto de Palheiros
- heritage
Palheiros
5090-210, Palheiros
The Crasto de Palheiros, or Fragada do Castro, is an imposing quartzite ridge that was carved and built by the populations of that region of the Trás-os-Montes Hot Land between the beginning of the third millennium BC and present times.
Porca de Murça
- heritage
Largo 31 de Janeiro
5090-111, Murça
Shrouded in popular legends and its origin or purpose not known for certain, Porca de Murça (Murça´s Female Pig) is an unequivocal symbol of the town, even giving its name to well-known region's wines. It is a zoomorphic stone sculpture from protohistoric times and is thought to be a votive statue to sacred animals.
Museu Industrial e Artesanal do Têxtil
- heritage
Rua das Grutas, 593
2485-059, Mira de Aire
Este museu permite descobrir uma época de ouro do têxtil em Portugal, quando Mira de Aire e Minde formaram um dos mais importantes pólos industriais têxteis no século XX.
Troço de Via Romana em Alqueidão da Serra
- heritage
Rua da Estrada Romana
2480, Alqueidão da Serra
This is a roman path and it has 150 metres of its route well preserved. It is presumed that this road was made on the I a.C century or I d.C. century. It is classified as Building of Public Interest.