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Rio Zêzere

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Painho
6100, Sertã

Sertã

After the Mondego, this is the second-longest Portuguese river. It rises in the Serra da Estrela, at an altitude of approximately 1,900 meters, and stretches for 242 km. Its main tributaries are the Nabão and Alge rivers, as well as the Isna, Paul, Bogas, Pera, and Unhais streams. It flows into Constância. Thanks to its water potential, flow, steepness, and rocky banks, it has been used for electricity generation.

Capela de São Francisco

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Largo de São Francisco
4590, Freamunde

Paços de Ferreira

This set includes the chapel, a fence, and the Freamunde Hospice house. It's a 19th-century building, typical of the large confraternities of the time. The chapel is triangular, as is the chancel, which is carved and has two niches flanking a painting. This ensemble is Baroque, but the carving has Neoclassical characteristics. The main façade has a straight-lintel portal. The chapel, the hospice, and the fence form a triangular plot. It was built in 1737.

Jardim Público da Ponte

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Avenida da Liberdade
3700, São João da Madeira

São João da Madeira

This garden, designed by architect Sidónio Pardal, is one of the main green spaces in São João da Madeira. A very well-maintained and pleasant area, it runs parallel to Avenida da Liberdade and extends from the City Hall building to the bridge, reaching the Ul River and its banks. The garden connects to the Urban Park located along the valley traversed by the same river.

Capela de São Jorge

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Avenida Nuno Álvares Pereira
2480-062, São Jorge

Porto de Mós

Commissioned in 1393 by Constable D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, on the site where his standard was raised at the Battle of Aljubarrota, the Chapel of St. George is a small building with a chancel featuring a coffered vault whose keystone depicts a pelican. The interior is simple, with notable features including the slender columns of the triumphal arch on the main altar and the symbols of King João II on the keystone of the ribbed vault.

Biblioteca Municipal Afonso Lopes Vieira

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Largo Cândido dos Reis, 6
2400-112, Leiria

Leiria

A modern library with various services, namely borrowing, reading room for adults, reading room for children and teenagers and internet use. It also has an audiovisuals room and a room for reserved consultations. Municipal gallery with art exhibitions (service's opening hours). Informative and bibliographic exhibitions in the lobby (service's opening hours). Adults reading room, children and youngsters reading room, audiovisuals room, reserved consultations room, gallery, museum Afonsol Lopes Vieira, cafeteria, multi uses room, Orange Tree atrium. New services.Internet - free service under appointment (until 14 years old), didactic CD ROMs, Telltale Hour, theatre sessions on wednesdays, monthly exhibitions about Portuguese …

Penha Longa - Atlântico

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Estrada da Lagoa Azul
2714-511, Sintra

Sintra

The Natural Park of Sintra is the framing of this path suspended between the sea and the hills of Portugal's most romantic and regarded by professionals as one of the best in the European circuit. Whimsical framed by boulders that form the serra de Sintra, source of inspiration for Lord Byron, who called it "Glorious Eden", the Atlantic field is a fabulous 18-hole course situated 20 minutes from Lisbon. Robert Trent Jones II designed it in such a way as to combine, optimally, the irregularity of the terrain with perspectives of landscape of mountains and surrounding sea. The holes 6 …

Igreja Paroquial de Curros

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Curros
5460-400, Curros

Boticas

The parish church of Curros, dedicated to our Lady of the snows, is deployed south of the village of Curros, away from housing cluster, flanked by a forecourt enclosed by a granite wall, where you will find the cemetery. Is a granite building of rectangular plant oriented Northeast\/Southwest. The main façade, with a porch, has a round arch portal, ends in Gable, with cornice, crowned by a Latin cross about acroterion. Inside this church, the floor is paved with granite slabs, old graves, some of which numbered or registered brands. Has three gilded altars: the main altar, decorated with painted …

Sé do Porto

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Terreiro da Sé
4050-603, Porto

Porto

The Sé is the main church in the city of Porto. It was built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The first mass was held in the year 1120. In the 13th century alterations were made that completely altered the main portal. Rebuilt in the Baroque style, it kept only the rose window of its original construction. Nicolau Nasoni was the author of a galilee on the north façade, and also intervened in the decoration of the sacristy. The interior retains the images of Nossa Senhora da Vandoma (14th century), the "silver altar", an important Gothic cloister, the "old cloister", …

Cozinha do Zé

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Covelães
5470, Paredes do Rio

Montalegre

Typical cuisine barrosã, integrated in a rural tourism unit in the village of river Walls. The visit to this kitchen allows a trip up to the times in which this was the most common family living space. Here we find the most varied utensils and objects characteristic of traditional cuisine: a rustic family table; a bench facing the fireplace where afumam, hanging in lareiros, the chouriças, the sausages and sausages and, in toucinheiras, the hams; the stupid enough to support for Caldera, who warmed to the warmth of the bonfire; the traditional wood-burning oven; the parrugueira where it was piling …

Aldeia Galega

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Aldeia Galega
2580, Aldeia Galega

Alenquer

A village with curvy, narrow streets, located between the Montejun to-Sintra mountains and the springs of the Alenquer Brook. It boast several vestiges of different civilizations: a roman road with abridge, the friars pathways to the convents of São Jerónimo do Mato and Santo António de Charnais and the medieval Galician road. One may also visit the ruins of the palace of Dona leonor (the place where the queen rested whem she went to the thermae of the Caldas da Rainha), the pillory, the church of Prazeres and the chapel of the Espírito Santo (Holy Spirit). A special note to …

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