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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Visit the Camping of Beja - São João Baptista (Beja)
The Beja Camping Park, located in the Parish of São João Baptista (Beja), presents excellent conditions to provide you with pleasant moments in contact with nature. In the summer months, despite the high temperatures, the shadows may help the camper to make your stay enjoyable.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Visit the Beja Air Base - São Brissos
The Beja Air Base, located in the Parish of São Brissos, is an air base of the Portuguese Air Force, located a few kilometers from the city of Beja. The base was activated in 1967, housing, almost from the outset, units of instruction of the German Air Force, stationed there under a bilateral agreement between Portugal and Germany. The occupied area of this Air Base makes it the largest air base in Europe and one of the largest in the world.
Visiting Beja Airport - São Brissos
The Beja Airport located next to the Air Base nº 11 to 12 km in the parish of São Brissos had its inaugural flight happened on April 13, 2011. It does not currently have regular flights.
Visit the Beja Picnic Park - Santiago Maior (Beja)
The Beja Merenda Park, located in the parish of Santiago Maior, is associated with the maintenance circuit with an area of approximately 7 ha. Make the connection to the City Park.
The Mata belongs to the urban ecological structure and is connected and contiguous to other important open spaces. This continuity constitutes a predominantly permeable "green waist", with equipment directed to the sports and recreational activities in the open air.
Monday, May 28, 2018
Visit the Botanical Museum of Beja - Santiago Maior (Beja)
Visit the Hermitage of Santo André - Santiago Maior (Beja)
The Santo André Hermitage, located in the parish of Santiago Maior (Beja), is part of the Gothic-Mudejar constructive tradition. The temple was built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. It is a type of construction that finds some parallels in the Alentejo region. This Hermitage is classified as National Monument.
Visiting Albufeira do Roxo - Santa Vitória
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Visit the Cathedral of Beja - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Cathedral of Beja, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was built in 1590. The primitive structure of the complex, in three naves, corresponds to the model of the church-hall, much publicized in the Mannerist architecture of the Baixo Alentejo from the mid-16th century. The retables of the side chapels are from the Mannerist period. The altarpieces from the chancel date from the Baroque period.
Visit the Bullring of Beja - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Bullring in Beja was built on the initiative of the beja farmer Rafael António Madeira. The inaugural race was held on August 9, 1909.
Between 1936 and 1938 the bullring of Beja was closed due to poor conservation status. Reopened on August 10, 193
José Varela Crujo was named in 1988 in honor of the bejense rider that died that year, after being harvested in Campo Pequeno.
Visit the Doors of Avis - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The arch of Portas de Avis, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was demolished in 1893. Subsequently, the granite blocks that constituted it were discovered in its new function (fish market tables of Santa Maria Market), which allowed for its reconstitution in 1939.
Visit the Pelourinho de Beja
Beja's pillory will have been re-erected after the concession of the New Foral by Manuel I of Portugal.
At the beginning of the 19th century, it was transferred to D. Manuel Square (today Praça da República), believed to have been previously placed in the courtyard of the Paços do Concelho, ending up being dismantled in the same century, at an unknown date. During this period some of its architectural elements disappeared, with the exception of the capital, the auction and part of the shaft.
It has been classified as a Property of Public Interest since October 11, 1933.
It came to be reconstructed in 1938 with the elements that were then collected in the Archaeological Museum of the new building of the City Hall, later transferred to the Museum Queen D. Leonor, and that were constituted by the capital, the shot and the grimpa with the sphere armillary and flag surmounted by the Cross of Christ.
It has a trunk-pyramidal torso decorated with discs, palmettes, rosettes and ring, and is topped by a capital also torso and topped by armillary sphere and the Cross of Christ in iron.
Visit the Church of Santo Amaro - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Church of Santo Amaro, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), is a basilical church whose foundation seems to date back to late antiquity. Although it has undergone several changes throughout the centuries still conserves part of the central ship.
At the moment it hosts the Visigothic Center of the Regional Museum of Beja, whose collection of architectural elements constitutes the most important set known in the national territory. Its existence justified the classification of the city of Beja as capital of the Visigothic in Portugal. This Church is classified as a National Monument.
Visit the Church of Our Lady of Mercy - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
Visit the Misericórdia Church - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Church of the Misericórdia de Beja, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), is an emblematic and beautiful example of the transition architecture between the Renaissance and the Mannerism in Portugal, full of understanding of the sources of tratadistics and forms learned from the Italian mannerist lesson.
The building is developed in longitudinal plant composed by the volumes of the galilee, the main chapel and the dependencies.
The facade is composed of the sumptuous effect of the galilee, loggia of rusticado device inspired "in the engraving of Serlio that reproduced the average floor of the amphitheater of Verona". The Mannerist arcades are deeply marked in their verticality, creating a set of ribs supported in Corinthian columns, of clear classic taste. In the wall, preceded by stairs, wall and railing, the portal of the temple opens, with pediment of classic lines very purified. The body of the church, installed in the space that originally corresponded to the third section of the loggia, lost part of the original decorative program, possibly due to the undue uses that the space had from the first half of the nineteenth century. From its primitive integrated patrimony there remain the pulpit and four tablets with scenes of the life of Christ belonging to the altarpiece, executed in 1564 by the eborense painter António Nogueira, who are in the Regional Museum of Beja.
Visit the Hermitage of Santo Estevão - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Santo Estevão Hermitage, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was founded at the end of the 13th century and is one of the oldest hermitages in Beja. It was built to receive the body of the rider Estêvão Vasques. In 1915 it was delivered to Mercy, and then it worked as a barn. It was reopened to the cult in 1940.
Visit the Hermitage of São Sebastião - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Hermitage of São Sebastião, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), is a Mannerist, popular architecture with only one nave and main chapel. In the interior the vestiges of the painting the temperament of the XVIII century stand out.
Visit the Convent of Santo António - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The Convent of Santo António, located in the Parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was built during the reign of King João II. Only the cloister, the church and the chapter room remain at the present time. The cloister has the walls covered with quinine tiles, green and white with metallic reflections.
Visit the Castle of Beja - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)
The first restoration of the walls of Beja dates from the reign of D. Afonso III (1248-79), and began in 1253. The following year (1254), the village received its charter on the same terms as Santarém, confirmed in 1291 in the reign of his son, D. Dinis (1279-1325). This, in turn, continued the reconstruction works, reinforcing and enlarging the walls and towers (1307) and began the construction of the keep (1310).
Until the 17th century, Castelo de Beja was the object of various extensions and modernizations, particularly in the context of the Restoration War of Portuguese Independence, when it was reinforced by bastions according to the design of the military engineer and French architect Nicolau de Langres, approved by the engineer and chief cosmographer of the realm, Luís Serrão Pimentel, and General Agostinho de Andrade Freire (1644). In the period from 1669 to 1679 the works were directed by the engineers João Coutinho, Diogo de Brito de Castanheira and Manuel Almeida Falcão, but they were never completed.
The Robust Tower of Menagem, in Gothic style, is considered as one of the most beautiful examples of military architecture of the Middle Ages in Portugal. It rises to forty meters high. The tower has angular counters on bushes, joined by balconies defended by pyramidal battlements. It is torn by ogival doors and twin windows, in a horseshoe arch. The rooms in its interior, richly decorated, have roofs in vault in cross of ogives.
The main door of the castle opens in an ogival arc and accesses the square of arms. Of the primitive doors still remain two of Romanesque origin: the Door of Évora, contiguous to the castle; and the arc of the Avis Gate. The Porta de Moura is defended by two turrets.
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Visit the Municipal Theater Pax Julia - Salvador (Beja)
The Teatro Pax Julia, located in the parish of Salvador (Beja), was inaugurated on December 28, 1928. After remodeling in 1952, it became Cine-Theater and would close its doors in 1990. It was inaugurated as Teatro Municipal Pax Julia in the year of 2005. In the inauguration it counted on a spectacle with the musicians Sérgio Godinho, Rão Kyao, Vitorino, Janita Salomé and Filipa Pais.Visit the Port of Évora - Salvador (Beja)
The Porta de Évora or Arco Romano is located next to the castle wall of Beja.
Visit the Portas de Moura - Salvador (Beja)
Visit the Rainha Dona Leonor Museum
The Queen Dona Leonor Museum, located in the Municipality of Beja, also known as Beja Regional Museum in the Alentejo, is located in the dependence of the former Convent of the Conception.
Visit the Jorge Vieira Museum - Salvador (Beja)
Visit The Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner - Salvador (Beja)
The original work of Jorge Vieira, in bronze, 445 x 300 x 290 mm, is in the Chiado Museum. The replica, also of Jorge Vieira, is made of steel and copper plate.
Visit the Church of the Savior - Salvador (Beja)
The Church of Salvador, located in the Parish of Salvador (Beja), whose foundation dates back to the 13th century. The main façade is sober and masonry.
Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo - Salvador (Beja)
It is a typically eighteenth-century church with a simple facade and a triangular gable topped with pinnacles.
Visit the Church of Santa Maria - Salvador (Beja)
Visit the Church of Our Lady of Pleasures - Salvador (Beja)
Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Foot of the Cross - Salvador (Beja)
The Church of Our Lady of the Foot of the Cross is located in the Parish of Salvador (Beja). The primitive hermitage dates from 1499, but the building that we find today was built in the 17th century. With a façade "style floor", characterized by austere lines. This Church is classified as Property of Public Interest.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Visit the Convent of São Francisco - Salvador (Beja)
However it would undergo changes over the centuries so that elements of different styles of architecture are visible. From the Gothic period it maintains the call Chapel / Room of the Tombs, a funerary chapel built already in the century. XV, considered by some people as one of the most interesting Gothic in the country.
Already in the century. XIX, with the extinction of religious orders, the ecclesiastical set did not escape the destructive fury of that time, and the convent was transformed into military barracks. The church had several functions, such as a barber shop, a barn, and the tombs there to serve as drinking fountains for animals.
Currently the convent is converted into a private group hostel.
Visit the Convent of Our Lady of the Conception - Salvador (Beja)
In 1459, it was founded and granted license for its institution by two short ones of Pio II
It was erected next to the Infante Palace, in the center of the city. It began to be built on the initiative of the Duke of Beja, the infant D. Fernando (brother of D. Afonso V) and his wife D. Beatriz, the first dukes of Beja and country of D. Manuel.
In 1461 he received the oratory of St. Vitus.
In 1463, the third ones had already made profession in the Order of Santa Clara.
In 1469, the convent was almost completed, received the invocation of Our Lady of the Conception of Mary Most Holy, and the urbanist rule, as shown in the bull of December 21 of that year, granted by Pope Paul II.
In 1505, through the intervention of the Duchess of Beja, in spite of the observing direction, the convent became a pantheon of the ducal family.
With the end of religious orders the convent fell into decadence and was on the verge of ruin.
In 1895, the Paço dos Infantes was demolished, which was annexed to the convent, and part of the convent area. At that time it was possible to partially rebuild the convent.
On October 5, 1927, the Regional Museum of Art and Archeology was inaugurated in the building of the Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Conceição that occupies it up to the present day.
Visit the Manueline Arcades of the Republic Square - Salvador (Beja)
The Manueline arches of Praça da República, located in the parish of Salvador (Beja), give this square a singular beauty.
Visit the parish church of Salvada
The Parish Church of Salvada, is the highlight of the traditional carved altarpieces of Évora, with emphasis on the main altar with tribune, Eucharistic throne, tabernacle and curtain.
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