The downtown is the result of an urban innovative project, imbued on a clear concern for modernity. With a rigours geometrical sketch, it has its main references on the Tejo River and the D. José statue. Nearby are also the Rossio and Figueira squares. This area was totally rebuilt after the earthquake of 1755, and became one of the best examples of European urban planning. Going through the long avenues you will notice that the neoclassical imponent buildings shelter, nowadays, commercial shops. The Portas de Santo Antão Street is the most indicated to take a walk.

A village located in a cove of the Castelo de Bode reservoir. It is one of the most typical and picturesque villages in central Portugal. Dominating the low white houses is the medieval tower, said to have been built by the Knights Templar on a Roman watchtower to oversee the deep Zêzere Valley, which formed the border between Moorish and Christian territory. Of note among its cultural heritage are the main church, dating from the 13th century and rebuilt in 1453, with the image of Our Lady of Weeping, and the chapel of Santo Antão, with 17th-century statues.

Inaugurated in 2003, Quinta de Valverde, Viana do Castelo, owns a privileged location, in the middle of the Hill of Santa Luzia, overlooking the old city, to the Lima River and the sea. Property with 10 acres, has seven apartments, with different typologies of between T1 and T4, all of them with fireplace and kitchen. In the main building is two audio-visual rooms, a library and a games room. Enjoy to stroll through the gardens of quinta, inhabited by swans, peacocks and pheasants, discover the secrets of the forest and have a picnic in the surrounding fields.

In the Azores archipelago, more properly in a paradisiacal zone of Terceira Island, the Quinta do Rossio is located within the limits of the parishes of Altars and biscuits. The main house of the Farm was rebuilt maintaining its secular moth, being composed of four double bedrooms with en-suite bathroom, living room, dining room and kitchen, and the whole House is equipped with central heating and a fireplace in the living room. The original furniture, most of the Dashwood family, was recovered in order to offer guests a rustic atmosphere and quiet in contrast to the hectic everyday life.

The chapel of Veral, dedicated to s. Martinho, rectangular plant East\/West oriented, are deployed within a walled courtyard. The granite walls are partially covered with plaster and painted white. The main façade has a rectangular portal, flanked by two horizontal slots, surmounted by inscriptions alluding to rebuilding this area in the 19th century. Inside this Chapel, divided by an arch, stands the high altar and two side altars in polychrome and gilded carvings, religious imaginary housing. This is the chapel which is celebrated the mass of the feast in honour of s. Martinho.

This is a Mannerist convent with a church in the shape of a Latin cross, a single nave, and a two-story cloister. Due to its characteristics, it fits into the typology of the monumental 17th-century churches of classicist and erudite style in the Porto region. The tilework in the chancel and transept is also from the 17th century, and the main altarpiece is Baroque, in the National Style, with Baroque side altarpieces from the time of King Pedro II, at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the center of the convent courtyard there was a Baroque fountain, …

This 17th century construction is sided by two towers with pyramidal domes draped in glazed tiles. It has one only nave with vaults decorated with wall paintings dated from the 18th century. It possesses six lateral chapels opening to the nave by perfectly vaulted arches, linked each other in the corbels level. Below the main chapel there is São João de Deus chapel where, according to the tradition it is located the house from street Rua Verde where in 1495 João Cidade (São João de Deus) was born.

Church of 16th century Foundation modified in the 18th century, the main façade, with a round arch portal, holds on its stretching a semi-detached Bell Tower, topped with a triangular pediment. The interior of the Church is divided by a triumphal arch that marks the separation between the chancel and the body of the Church. Has three altars, altar, Baroque style, which occupies the whole of the head of the Church, dedicated to the most important local devotions, such as Santo André, patron of the Church and the parish of Ardãos. Centre of the religious life of the parish is …

This church used to be part of the disappeared Benedictine monastery and it was rebuilt on the 14th and 15th centuries. From then on it started to possess a cloister, a crenel tower and the frontage giant. The portico has four archivolts with ogival arches settled in decorated columns in the abacus and capitals, with Coat of Arms and rose window. On the inside it possesses a nave, a main chapel where it is possible to find the grave from the Abbot D. Estevão, with some inscriptions and with a statue laying above the cover and funerary – chapel. It …

This street right in the limit of the area classified as world heritage, is one of the most stirred streets of Porto and was once the main access to the city. During the XVIII century it was called the Rua da Estrada or Rua Dirieta de Cedofeita. Some buildings in the street are still from that century. Today, a great part of the street is pedestrian, with Portuguese traditional stone-pavement. It is a commercial area with many shops and, on the contrary of down town, it hasn’t lost its residential characteristic. The fact that it is close to many faculties, …