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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Visit the Roman Villa da Serra
Visit the Garden of Adro - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Gardens,
Santarém District,
Sierra,
Tomar
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Visit the Loin Island - Sierra
Lombo Island is located in Albufeira de Castelo do Bode and belongs to the village of Serra, surrounded by a magnificent landscape where there are the necessary conditions for water sports and where you can spend pleasant moments of leisure.
It is an ideal area for fishing. A quiet place where you can take a ride on a pedal or boat, or just swim in the clear waters of the River Zêzere.
It is an ideal area for fishing. A quiet place where you can take a ride on a pedal or boat, or just swim in the clear waters of the River Zêzere.
Etiquetas:
Islands,
Reservoirs,
River Zêzere,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Santarém District,
Sierra,
Tomar
Visit the Church of Sierra
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Santarém District,
Sierra,
Tomar
Visit the Source of St. Anthony - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Santarém District,
Serra,
Sources,
Tomar
Visit the Source of St. Anthony - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Santarém District,
Serra,
Sources,
Tomar
Visit the Chapel of St. Bartholomew - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Visit the Chapel of St. Andrew - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Visit the Chapel of Santa Luzia - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Conception - Serra
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Visit the Chapel of levegő - Sierra
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
levegő,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Visit Anta da Serra
Etiquetas:
Antas and Dolmens,
Santarém District,
Serra,
Tomar
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Visit the Bullring at Quinta do Falcão - San Pedro de Tomar
Etiquetas:
Plaza de Toros,
San Pedro de Tomar,
Santarém District,
Tomar
Monday, June 27, 2011
Visit the Church of São Pedro de Tomar
Etiquetas:
Churches,
San Pedro de Tomar,
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição - São Pedro de Tomar
Etiquetas:
Churches,
San Pedro de Tomar,
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit the Santa Cruise Quotes - Take St. Peter
Etiquetas:
Cruises,
San Pedro de Tomar,
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes - St. Peter's Take
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
San Pedro de Tomar,
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit the Castelo de Bode Dam - San Pedro de Tomar
The dam of Castelo de Bode is one of the most important Portuguese dams located on the outskirts of the Parish of St. Peter's Take on the Municipality of Abrantes, in Rio Zêzere
The dam of Castelo de Bode is used for water supply, such as Lisbon, power generation, defense against the full and active recreation. It is used by supporters of sports such as windsurfing, sailing, rowing, power boating and jet skiing and sport fishing (trout, bass, eels and crayfish red).
The construction of the dam began in 1945 and was given for the termination in 1951.
The dam is a concrete gravity, but with curvature. The maximum height above foundation is 115 meters.
The reservoir is located in an area of average annual rainfall of 1200 mm. The full annual average flow is 2.352 billion cubic meters.
The dam of Castelo de Bode is used for water supply, such as Lisbon, power generation, defense against the full and active recreation. It is used by supporters of sports such as windsurfing, sailing, rowing, power boating and jet skiing and sport fishing (trout, bass, eels and crayfish red).
The construction of the dam began in 1945 and was given for the termination in 1951.
The dam is a concrete gravity, but with curvature. The maximum height above foundation is 115 meters.
The reservoir is located in an area of average annual rainfall of 1200 mm. The full annual average flow is 2.352 billion cubic meters.
Etiquetas:
Dams,
Reservoirs,
River Zêzere,
San Pedro de Tomar,
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit Wheel Mouchão - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tomar,
water mills
Visit the Sundial - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Sundials,
Tomar
Visit the Old Bridge - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Bridges,
Rio Nabão,
Rivers,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tomar
Visit Sebastian Standard - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Standard,
Taking
Friday, June 24, 2011
Visit the Church of St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
The Church of St. John the Baptist is the late fifteenth century and has a Manueline portal surmounted by an octagonal spire.
Inside is a pulpit carved in stone, with tiles called "Diamond Tip" and sixteenth-century paintings including a Last Supper of Gregory Lopes.
The church was classified as a National Monument in 1910.
Inside is a pulpit carved in stone, with tiles called "Diamond Tip" and sixteenth-century paintings including a Last Supper of Gregory Lopes.
The church was classified as a National Monument in 1910.
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Gregory Lopez,
National Monument,
Painting,
Santarém District,
St John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tiling,
Tomar
Visit the Church of the Immaculate Conception - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
The Church of the Immaculate Conception, located in the Parish of St. John the Baptist, has defined three aisles by Corinthian columns. It features flat gables on the façade and the transept and the Ionic entablature supported on pilasters of wedges. There is the inner harmony and domed cover with needlework.
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tomar
Visit the Statue of King Gualpim Parents - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
D. Afonso Henriques,
Gualdim Pais,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Statues,
Tomar
Visit the Convent of Christ - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
The Convent of Christ, historical monument in the city of Tomar, located in the parish of St. John the Baptist, classified by UNESCO as World Heritage, belonged to the Knights Templar. It was founded in 1160 by the Grand Master of the Templars, gift Gualdim Parents, the Convent of Christ still has memories of these monks and knights of the heirs of his office, the Order of Christ, which made this building their headquarters. It is a suburban construction, implemented on top of a hill overlooking the plain where the city extends. It is surrounded by the walls of the Castle of Tomar and the forest fence. Today is a cultural, tourist and even devotional. The architecture shares traits Romanic, Gothic, Manueline, Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque.
Etiquetas:
Convents,
Gualdim Parents,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tomar,
World Heritage
Visit the Castle of Tomar - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
The Castle of Tomar is located in St. John the Baptist Parish, is a crusader castle on the right bank of the river Nabão, which included, at the time of the Reconquista, the call line of the Tagus, along with others in the region, which will follow the style : the castles of Almourol, Idanha, Monsanto, Pombal and Zêzere.
The castle features elements of military architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance. It consists of a double ring of walls that delimit the primitive and the intramural town parade ground: one on a higher plane of irregular polygonal, with some curved faces, rising at the entrance of the Chapter House and ending at the Tower of Dona Catarina . Marks the Alcazaba and retains only the tank and the Keep on the inside, defensive figure introduced by the Templars in Portugal and has here his testimony earlier, another on a lower plane, connecting the eastern facade of the south part of the Rotunda Alcazaba, which corresponded to the fortified village of the Middle Ages. It also presents an irregular polygonal plan, developing wedge towards the East, finished in a large quadrangular tower, called Tower of the Queen.
The castle features elements of military architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance. It consists of a double ring of walls that delimit the primitive and the intramural town parade ground: one on a higher plane of irregular polygonal, with some curved faces, rising at the entrance of the Chapter House and ending at the Tower of Dona Catarina . Marks the Alcazaba and retains only the tank and the Keep on the inside, defensive figure introduced by the Templars in Portugal and has here his testimony earlier, another on a lower plane, connecting the eastern facade of the south part of the Rotunda Alcazaba, which corresponded to the fortified village of the Middle Ages. It also presents an irregular polygonal plan, developing wedge towards the East, finished in a large quadrangular tower, called Tower of the Queen.
Etiquetas:
Castles,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tomar,
towers
Visit the Chapel of St. Lawrence - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)
The Chapel of San Lorenzo, located in the Parish of St. John the Baptist was built in the sixteenth century to commemorate the place where they joined the armies of the master of Avis and D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, in 1385, before the Battle of Aljubarrota. There is an outside panel of tiles recalls the event.
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tiles,
Tomar
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Visit the Plaza de Toros Jose Salvador - Santa Maria Olivais (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Plaza de Toros,
Santa Maria Olivais (Tomar),
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit the Bridge of the archer - Santa Maria Olivais (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Bridges,
groves of Santa Maria (Tomar),
Santarém District,
Tomar
Visit the Church of Santa Marta - Santa Maria Olivais (Tomar)
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Santarém District,
St. Mary of the groves (Tomar),
Tomar
Visit the Church of St. Mary of the groves (Tomar)
The Church of St. Mary of the groves, is situated in the parish of St. Mary of the groves on the left bank of the River Nabão. The temple, whose foundation dates from the twelfth century, was the seat of the Knights Templar in Portugal, having served as a pantheon of masters Templars. This temple, a National Monument since 1910, is one of the most emblematic examples of Gothic art in Portugal, having served as a model for churches of three ships built by the Manueline period.
The great importance of the church in medieval times is attested by the existence of a papal bull, even during the last Templar, which put the temple attached directly to the Pope and the Holy See, beyond the reach of any diocese. Later in 1455, a bull of Pope Callistus III became the mother of all churches of the discovered territories in Asia, Africa and America and being given the honor of the Cathedral.
The main façade has three bodies, which define the aisles. The central body includes gabletado the porch of four columns based on ogival archivolts capitelizadas, overwhelming him a magnificent rose window of twelve leaves three lobes. Gablete of the pediment, which involves the portal, is an engraved sign-Saimaa. In lateral bodies, separated from the core by two giants, ripping two cracks wicker three lobes and two-way mirror. The apse, flanked by giant cracks is torn by high warhead little pointed, widely that illuminate the main chapel. The south façade features a gallery run, the level of the ships, framed by Tuscan columns. In the churchyard stands a strong foundation medieval tower that serves as a bell, having the particularity to present separately from the church.
The great importance of the church in medieval times is attested by the existence of a papal bull, even during the last Templar, which put the temple attached directly to the Pope and the Holy See, beyond the reach of any diocese. Later in 1455, a bull of Pope Callistus III became the mother of all churches of the discovered territories in Asia, Africa and America and being given the honor of the Cathedral.
The main façade has three bodies, which define the aisles. The central body includes gabletado the porch of four columns based on ogival archivolts capitelizadas, overwhelming him a magnificent rose window of twelve leaves three lobes. Gablete of the pediment, which involves the portal, is an engraved sign-Saimaa. In lateral bodies, separated from the core by two giants, ripping two cracks wicker three lobes and two-way mirror. The apse, flanked by giant cracks is torn by high warhead little pointed, widely that illuminate the main chapel. The south façade features a gallery run, the level of the ships, framed by Tuscan columns. In the churchyard stands a strong foundation medieval tower that serves as a bell, having the particularity to present separately from the church.
On the side of the letter, open up five chapels with stone arches sixteenth century, perfect round on pilasters with Ionic capitals. The chapels are interrelated, being lit by holes and covered with ribbed vaults, closures have different ornaments. The altars, masonry, are covered with polychrome tiles th century, with the exception of the third chapel, which is gilded. In these chapels, you can admire pictures of Santa Ana, sculpture of the late sixteenth century, St. Mary Magdalene and San Blas.
The chapel, which features a ribbed vault coverage, has two altars, and the limestone altar and the other of wood. In this chapel, admire is a sixteenth-century stone sculpture, exhibited at the altar, representing Our Lady of Milk and the renaissance of the small chest Bishop Diogo Pinheiro, sheltered under a arcosolium perfect round, with a coffered vaulted soffit and decorated with cherubs in archivolt. The side chapels, which is accessed through round arches broken, are lined with tiles of the standard type and feature masonry altars, whose front is covered with polychrome tiles. The chapel on the side of the epistle, known as the Chapel of Simon Black, has a ribbed vault tiled coverage, featuring an image of Our Lady of Conception on the altar. The chapel on the gospel is covered by a barrel vault and broken tile.
Some of the tombstones parietal, which are a bit scattered throughout the church, are noteworthy, especially that of D. Gualdim Parents and Master Martin Lawrence, both embedded in the garment of the second chapel on the epistle, the Master and D. Gil Martins, in the chapel, all of them with inscriptions in Gothic characters.
The chapel, which features a ribbed vault coverage, has two altars, and the limestone altar and the other of wood. In this chapel, admire is a sixteenth-century stone sculpture, exhibited at the altar, representing Our Lady of Milk and the renaissance of the small chest Bishop Diogo Pinheiro, sheltered under a arcosolium perfect round, with a coffered vaulted soffit and decorated with cherubs in archivolt. The side chapels, which is accessed through round arches broken, are lined with tiles of the standard type and feature masonry altars, whose front is covered with polychrome tiles. The chapel on the side of the epistle, known as the Chapel of Simon Black, has a ribbed vault tiled coverage, featuring an image of Our Lady of Conception on the altar. The chapel on the gospel is covered by a barrel vault and broken tile.
Some of the tombstones parietal, which are a bit scattered throughout the church, are noteworthy, especially that of D. Gualdim Parents and Master Martin Lawrence, both embedded in the garment of the second chapel on the epistle, the Master and D. Gil Martins, in the chapel, all of them with inscriptions in Gothic characters.
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Churches,
National Monument,
Santarém District,
St. Mary of the groves (Tomar),
Tiles,
Tomar
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