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Heritage in Portugal
Biblioteca Municipal de Oliveira do Bairro
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Avenida Doutor Abilio Pereira Pinto
3770-201, Oliveira do Bairro
A space with a vast documentary collection, as well as reprographics and entertainment services for children.
Igreja Matriz de Oliveira do Bairro / Igreja de São Miguel
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Rua Conde Ferreira
3770-851, Oliveira do Bairro
A church dedicated to cultural use dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. It is dedicated to Saint Michael, the parish's patron saint. It houses gilded wooden Baroque altarpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Igreja Matriz de Mamarrosa / Igreja de São Simão
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Rua Banda Filarmónica
3770-033, Mamarrosa
Built in the 18th century, this temple boasts a 15th-century sculpture of Saint Simon on the front. Inside, it houses 19th-century altarpieces.
Museu Paroquial de São Pedro da Palhaça
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EN333
3770-357, Vila Nova
This museum boasts a vast ethnographic collection of regional costumes, agricultural and household utensils, and a collection of 19th-century porcelain and a documentary archive.
Museu de Etnomúsica da Bairrada
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Rua Jaime Pato
3770-410, Troviscal
This museum exhibits a vast collection of instruments and documents related to the musical practices of regional associations, preserving local traditions. It consists of two distinct exhibition spaces. It also features a room for conferences, lectures, and other events, as well as an area reserved for educational activities aimed at children.
Museu Monsenhor Augusto Nunes Pereira
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Largo do Museu
3320-080, Fajão
It is located in the village of Fajão and has ethnographic objects and works by Monsignor Nunes Pereira on display.
Igreja Paroquial da Pampilhosa da Serra / Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pranto
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Lugar da Igreja
3320, Pampilhosa da Serra
Church dating from the second half of the 16th century. Religious architecture, with a regional character. Parish church with a wide nave and a three-leaf façade, following an architectural scheme common in the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. Highlights include the 16th-century collateral altarpiece in polychrome Ançã stone, perhaps originally from a Coimbra workshop that followed João de Ruão, the Neo-Gothic altarpieces with carved carvings, and a late 18th-century sculpture in polychrome wood (Our Lady of the Rosary).
Museu Municipal de Pampilhosa da Serra
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Praça de Barão de Loredo
3320-219, Pampilhosa da Serra
The Municipal Museum opened in 1997. It features the municipality's ethnographic history in the form of utensils on permanent display. It also has a crafts room displaying works by local artisans.
Casa Museu da Liga de Melhoramentos de Carvalho
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Carvalho
3320-216, Pampilhosa da Serra
The Carvalho House Museum houses an ethnographic collection. It has created spaces from typical local homes, such as the kitchen and bedroom, as well as exhibiting traditional agricultural tools.
Igreja de São Vicente / Igreja Matriz de Galafura, Campanário e Cruzeiro
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Largo do Eiró
5050-041, Galafura
The church consists of a single nave and a rectangular chancel, lower and narrower, with pilastered facades at the corners, and the sides are flanked by a cornice and pierced by two windows and a transom door. Inside, the high choir over a depressed wooden arch, a pulpit on the Gospel side, two side chapels with carved altarpieces, a triumphal arch wall entirely covered in gilded and polychrome woodwork, incorporating two side altarpieces, and a main altarpiece also in gilded and polychrome woodwork. The wooden ceilings are painted with coffered vaults, depicting saints by the Catholic Hagiologist. In the chancel, …