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Museu Municipal de Porto de Mós

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Travessa de São Pedro
2480-332, Porto de Mós

Porto de Mós

Opened since 1989. It is located by the Porto de Mós Town Hall. A special note to its fossils and dinossaur bones exhibitions.

Centro de Interpretação da Batalha de Aljubarrota

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Avenida Nuno Álvares Pereira, 120
2480-062, São Jorge

Porto de Mós

A space inaugurated in 1986. Located in the Military Fields of Saint Jorge. It features a documental exhibition about the period of 1369 to 1415 and to the battle between the Portuguese and Castillan armies in 1385. The exhibition is divideed in four parts: the Low Middle Ages, the Crisis of 1383-85, the Battl of Aljubarrota and the Consequences of the Victory.

Conjunto de Edifícios da Igreja Matriz de Brotas

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Rua da Igreja
7490-017, Mora

Mora

This group of buildings, similar to a neighborhood, supported the pilgrimages from the Brotherhoods of Nossa Senhora das Neves. All houses have two floors and some have stairs to access the balconies. You can also see a fountain, with a spout and a rectangular sink and the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora das Brotas.

Castelo de Porto de Mós

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Rua do Castelo, 3
2480, Porto de Mós

Porto de Mós

The plan of the castle is an irregular Pentagon. Features a thick wall and is reinforced in every angle with a tower. Four of the five towers were restored. The main façade is torn by a round arch, which provides access, through a domed, the entrance door, with bow down inside. On the second floor there is a double-drill arcade loggia, based on oitavados and pillars in inverted cone shaped Corbels, with an arched window broken on Corbels, on each side. Has four vaulted rooms that open onto a central courtyard with cistern in half, preceded by pilasters and classicizantes …

Capela de São Jorge

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Avenida Nuno Álvares Pereira
2480-062, São Jorge

Porto de Mós

Built in 1393 by the Constable d. Nuno Álvares Pereira, where was your banner at the battle of Aljubarrota. The chapel of St. George is a small building with chancel, with a panelled Vault whose closing stone represents a Pelican. The interior is simple, being highlighted at the main altar, columns, topped the fine triumphal arch and the symbols of d. João II on closing of rib vault of warheads.

Cromeleque do Monte das Fontainhas Velhas

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EN251
7490, Mora

Mora

Space where you can see the remains of six granite-shaped megaliths dating from the beginning of the fourth and middle of the third millennium BC. Only three are standing.

Torre das Águias

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Outeiro do Peso
7490, Mora

Mora

It is a rural, fortified manor, with a square plan, crowned with cut merlons, from the reign of King Manuel. The main facade is arranged in three registers, the first marked by the portico and the others by the openings of two rectangular windows. Internally, the ground floor develops into a large hall, covered with a vault with three sections of ribbed warheads; the first floor is occupied by the main hall, covered by a vault with ribbed warheads and adjoining divisions and the following floors are covered by vaults with a lowered dome.

Casa Museu Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia

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Largo dos Combatentes da Grande Guerra, 11
7490-422, Mora

Mora

Manuel Ribeiro de Paiva was born in Pavia in 1910 and was a neorealist draftsman, watercolorist and illustrator. His illustrations can be seen in books by writers, such as Alves Redol. The themes of his works refer, above all, to the Alentejo and the peasants. He died in 1957. This space has been operating in his honor since 1984 and preserves around twenty paintings, original drawings, some reproductions and several illustrated books.

Anta de Pavia / Capela de São Dinis

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Rua São Diniz
7490, Mora

Mora

Funerary monument in granite and masonry, used as a chapel. On the front main altar you can see 18th century and baroque tiles. It is one of the largest in the Iberian Peninsula.

Igreja da Misericórdia de Mogadouro

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Largo da Misericórdia
5200-227, Mogadouro

Mogadouro

Mannerist and Baroque church, with a rectangular plan with an internal longitudinal axis, consisting of a nave, a narrower chancel, an annex and a sacristy. Inside, highlights include the high choir, the pulpit on the Gospel side, the paintings in the main chapel and the gilded main altarpiece.

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