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Casa da Torre
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Avenida dos Bombeiros Voluntarios
6290-520, Gouveia
House of irregular rectangular plan with three floors, with openings in full arch or polylobed, profusely decorated with geometric motifs and stylized plant motifs. It features stonework corbels, decorated with anthropomorphic and vegetal motifs. Highlight for the monumental 16th century semi-detached window. It is also known as Palácio dos Távoras, marquises of Gouveia.
Castelo de Folgosinho
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Rua do Castelo
6290-081, Gouveia
Revival castle rebuilt in the 20th century, with a circular plan, where traces of medieval fortification remain. The primitive castle was probably built in the 12th century, during the reign of Ling Sancho I, on the ruins of a Lusitanian castro. In the first half of the 20th century, the current castle was built on the initiative of the Parish Council of Folgosinho.
Biblioteca Municipal Doutor Miguel Mota
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Avenida Agostinho Ribeiro
4610, Margaride (Santa Eulália)
This space has an interior garden and an auditorium for about 200 people. It is possible to read, borrow books, listen to music, watch videos, access the internet, consult the Municipal Archive of Felgueiras, among others.
Museu Casa do Assento
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Lugar do Assento
4610-301, Friande
The museum is structured in four distinct areas: Arts and Crafts, Agriculture, Fishing and Sacred Art, with other sections with various traditional tools. The pieces on display represent an era that begins in the last century until the present day.
Paço de Pombeiro
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Rua do Burgo, 590
4610-619, Pombeiro de Ribavizela
The construction of Paço de Pombeiro dates back to the 16th century, in a Manueline style. It is a Property of Municipal Interest that boasts ancient lines and layouts, in all their splendour.
Igreja do Salvador de Unhão
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Lugar da Igreja
4650-652, Unhão
Of modest proportions, this temple has a single nave and a rectangular chancel, highlighting the main portal which, made up of four archivolts with a round arch decorated with geometric and vegetal motifs, frames a tympanum filled with the typical hollow cross of the bracarense tradition. The gilded carving of the altarpieces that flank the triumphal arch and the main altarpiece appears during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Church of Salvador de Unhão reflects the importance and scope of the settlement of the region during the 13th century, whose foundation can be dated from the epigraph that records the …
Igreja de São Mamede de Vila Verde
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Lugar de São Mamede
4615-463, Vila Verde
This church is already mentioned in documents dating from 1220, as an integral part of the patronage of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pombeiro. However, the current building has features of later Gothic influence, even though Romanesque construction was used. The chapel was probably built in the 13th century, when King Mendo de Sousa moved to Vila Verde. Today, evidence of frescoes by Mestre Arnaus can still be seen in the chancel, as weel as the plasterwork decorated with paintings in the nave.
Villa Romana de Sendim
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Lugar do Agrelo
4610, Sendim
Archaeological excavations carried out from 1997 onwards revealed the existence of a large Roman Villa with compartments paved in geometric mosaics. What is there is the equivalent of what is now called the Quinta. It was occupied until the middle of the 5th century, as the evidence on a brick found in the place where the sign of Solomon is engraved, shows. It is possible to find the houses of the slaves who worked in the fields and the communication routes so typical of the Romans.
Mosteiro de Pombeiro
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Lugar do Mosteiro
4610-640, Pombeiro de Ribavizela
Founded in 1059 according to popular tradition, although the oldest documentary reference dates back to 1099, the Monastery of Pombeiro enjoyed privileges and justice of its own as early as 1112, as evidenced by the Charter of Couto granted on that date by D. Teresa. This monastic institution has been documented since 853, which makes it one of the oldest in the territory, although there is no material evidence of its first establishment. Located at the intersection of two of the main roads of medieval times, one that connected Porto to Trás-os-Montes and a second that connected Beira to Alto …
Igreja de Santa Maria de Airães
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Lugar do Mosteiro
4650-078, Airães
Although founded in the 11th century, the Romanesque building of this church only took place in the 13th and 14th centuries, when Gothic-inspired elements were also introduced, later suffering an extension to three naves and renovations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The portico with four archivolts retains its original features. The interior, whose appearance is the result of the reconstructions it underwent, is partially lined with 17th-century tiles. It is worth admiring the Romanesque portico, the three naves supported by powerful columns and the gilded statues.