Vila do Touro
Donated to the Templars by Dom Afonso II, this village still has some important military features. There are just a few vestiges of the old castle. Currently, the village is divided in three areas: castle, calvary and the collective fields, still widely occupied. A special note to the walls of the old castle and of the citadel, the mother church, the 16th century mother church, with a Renaissance pulpit, the Hermitage of Saint Lázaro, the manuelin window and the 16th century granite pillory.
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Vila do Touro
6320,Sabugal
Characteristics
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