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Aqueduto das Águas Livres
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Rua Dom Diniz
1685, Famões
Belonging to the set attached to the Águas Livres Aqueduct, an aqueduct, in stone, created to get water to the Terreiro do Paço de Queluz for consumption of the Royal Mews. The work was created in the place of two sources: the source of Gargantada and do Pocinho and served several fountains and fountains in Queluz. Built by d. João V, in 1731, was only to be done in the mid-19th century. The main section is 14 kilometres in length, of which eight in the municipality of Amadora.
Casa da Família de Almeida Garrett
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Rua de Cedofeita
4050-172, Porto
The family home of Almeida Garrett is a 17TH century building, similar to the place where you are. The central window of the first floor was boarded up and in its place was placed a large oval-shaped plate with festoons simulating Bay leaves, which reads: the House where he was born in February 4, 1797 João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett-record to the memory of the great poet the City Council of this city in 1864.
Casa do Passal
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Avenida do Cristo-Rei, 23
3430-618, Cabanas de Viriato
In this House lived the Doctor diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes when he exercised the function of Consul General in Bordeaux, in 1940, saved thousands of lives of the nazi Holocaust of World War II. This House features rectangular plant, two floors and mansard roof, facades torn by spans of perfect round profile on the lower floor and upper us rectilinear. In the Centre, access doors and balconies balcony advance forming pillared porch
Cabrito Estonado da Beira
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Castelo Branco
6000, Castelo Branco
O cabrito estonado é por toda a Bera Interior um prato muito apetecido. Deve o seu nome à forma como se tira a pele: por partes, em água a ferver, até ficar muito lisa. A carne apresenta uma cor rosa-pálida, tenra e com gosto suave a aleitado, uma vez que são quase exclusivamente alimentados de leite materno.
Sardinha Assada
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Lisboa
1100, Lisboa
A par do bacalhau, as sardinhas assadas são um dos pratos mais saboreados da cozinha portuguesa, fruto de uma forte tradição piscatória. São aliás inúmeras as receitas tendo por base principal a sardinha, sendo que aqui apresentamos a assada na brasa, sem dúvida a mais comum, cujo consumo aumenta exponencialmente em todo o país durante as festas dos santos populares.
Termas de Alcafache Spa Termal
- beach
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Rua do Balneário
3530-026, Alcafache
In the center of the Beira Alta and running since 1962, the Balneario Termas de Alcafache Sulphurous has undergone a constant growth and process improvements, always attempting to offer a higher quality and comfort. These spas are a little paradise protected from pollution and stress of cities in a 100% ecological environment. Here it is treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, rheumatic, respiratory and endocrine-metabolic. Also has a thermal SPA wine therapy and seaweed treatments and programs for face and body.
Centro Hípico de Alcaria
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Rua João Dias, 48
2480-011, Alcaria
The riding Centre of Barcelona is situated in the magnificent Natural Park of Serra de Aire e Candeeiros, in the region of Leiria-Fátima. In an impressive scenery of rocky hills that originated in the late Jurassic period, during millennia shaped by water erosion and perforated by hundreds of caves of great beauty. Rich of fauna and flora, with rare and even unique, this National Park constitutes a pole of attraction for all those who favor vast horizons, bright and depolluted.
Museu de Santa Maria de Lamas
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Largo da Igreja, 90 - Parque de Santa Maria de Lamas
4535-412, Santa Maria de Lamas
Surrounded by beautiful gardens populated with statues and sculptures, the Santa Maria de Lamas Museum was founded in 1950 and renovated in 2005. It comprises sixteen rooms and a remarkable collection of permanent exhibitions. There you will find rooms dedicated to sacred art, the cork industry, furniture, ethnography, statuary, natural sciences, ceramics, and curiosities. The museum's educational service conducts educational activities aimed at different age groups, focusing on raising awareness of art and cultural heritage.
Igreja Matriz de São Pedro
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Largo de São Pedro, 60
8000-145, Faro
Built in the 16th century in the place of a hermitage where the sailors went to pray, it was deeply modified after the earthquake of 1755. The main chapel is decorated with a panel of the end of the 17th century, which belongs to the experimental baroque epoch. A stone image of Nossa Senhora da Esperança and yet another image of Santa Ana, credited to the sculptor Machade de Castro, ar part of this church's assets, that also includes paintings and images from several convents.
Ermida da Nossa Senhora do Vale
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Largo Vitorino Leão Ramos
4580-318, Cête
Judging by the architecture, this Chapel features a form of construction typical of the end of the 15th century and early 16TH century, showing similarities to the monastery of San Pedro de Instrumentals by the stones. The mural there patent is of great artistic beauty, the two-dimensional nature of the figuration and by drawing the faces of angels, performed in the mid-16th century and attributed to the painter Arnaus, one of the most interesting fresquistas of the Portuguese Renaissance. The chapel underwent conservation works in 2004 and 2005.