Visit the windmill couple of larks - St. James of Old

Visit the St. James Church of Old

The Church of St. James the Old Alphonsine has origins are not known to the founding of the church, but the existence of a cross of the Knights Templar (the vestry) at the date of 1131, attests to its existence, at least Since then.
This church has an altar where the left side is a recent image of Santa Luzia, a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, a statue of St. Catherine of Siena and an image of St. Anthony. On the right side altar is a statue of Our Lady of Conception, set only by the head and hands and is sustained by a frame and the image of God Boy, an image of St. Francis with the stigmata, contemplating the crucified Christ, the image of Saint Sebastian and the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Visit the Chapel of Carvalha - St. James of Old

Carvalha Chapel, located in the Parish of St. James of the Old, is dedicated to Our Lady of Santa Ana

Visit the Windmill Cardosas

Visit the Viewpoint of Cardosas

The Viewpoint of Cardosas provides a magnificent view over the surrounding region.

Visit the Church of St. Michael the Archangel - Cardosas

The Church of St. Michael, located in the parish of Cardosas, has a nave and three altars, standing in the main image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Flanking the altar are images of St. Michael and St. Anthony and Child.
In the Gospel side altar is the image of N. Mrs. health, flanked by statues of St. Francis of Assisi and Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima. On the table this altar was placed a small picture of Santa Luzia.
On the altar on the left side of the Epistle, is the image of Our Lady of Conception, flanked by statues of St. Joseph with the Child and of St. Peter the Apostle.
The Gospel side, the middle of the nave, we see an image of the martyred St. Sebastian.
In the churchyard bordering the church, stands a cross of stone whose inscription dates from 1724.

Visit the Clock Tower - Arruda dos Vinhos

Visit the Bullring José Marques Simões - Arruda dos Vinhos

The Bullring José Marques Simões, located in the Town of Arruda dos Vinhos, was built in the first half of the twentieth century.

Visit the Windmill Corredoura - Arruda dos Vinhos

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Salvation - Arruda dos Vinhos

The Church of Our Lady of Salvation, is located in the parish of Arruda dos Vinhos.
It has an image of Our Lady of Salvation, thought to be earlier than the sixteenth century, is five feet tall and topped by elegant silver crown, the image of the Virgin and Child, has been the subject of much veneration over the times.
The church, the longitudinal plan, divided into three naves separated by arches and proportionate. The main chapel has a magnificent baroque altarpiece of gilded wood, surrounding the image of Our Lady of Salvation. There are still six appreciable sixteenth century paintings that bring glory to the side walls of tile eighteenth century.
The vast array of tiles of this church, referring to the type of polychrome tiles diamond tip of the seventeenth century and other eighteenth-century blue and white lining the walls, inserting them panels with figures of saints such as St. Christopher and St. George.
Opens to ship a chapel that was dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi and joined the Franciscan Third Order, and was later made ​​the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. In this chapel, can also be enjoyed a gilded altarpiece and green. Adorn the shrine a number of seventeenth-century paintings. The walls depict moments in the life of St. Francis in eighteenth-century polychrome tile panels.
Outside the church rises the bell tower topped by sixteenth-century spire. The front also sports a beautiful Manueline, flanked by pilasters with embossed images of human figures.

Visit the Church of Mercy Hospital - Arruda dos Vinhos

The building of the Church and Mercy Hospital, located in the Town of Arruda dos Vinhos, was built in 1574. Presents Baroque and Rococo.

Visit the Fountain of Arruda dos Vinhos

The Fountain of Arruda dos Vinhos is three taps, and was rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake, in 1789, replacing an ancient carved stone fountain. The original was built in the eighteenth century
This fountain shows the coat of arms of Portugal and the shell of D. Joseph in the crown.
The backrest is sectioned off by pilasters, surmounted by fire pits based on pyramidal bases. The shot of the three panels countercurved converges at the center, bow and crown canopial that does highlight the axis of the monument. This is formed by the basin and its fountains, the reason that follows a vegan subsumed by binding to the coat of arms, and ending with the one that finishes off the bow.
Access to the platform of the spouts through two steps of the fountain at the extremes, opening up, among them a large rectangular tank, preceded in the façade, a set of pillars. The water that supplies springs from a spout that connects directly to the upper basin
The source of the water supplied was born in a mountain range near the place of the forest, being conducted by an aqueduct with arches, almost disappeared.
The Fountain is classified as a Public Interest.

Visit the Chapel of St. Lazarus - Arruda dos Vinhos

The Chapel of St. Lazarus, located in the Town of Arruda dos Vinhos, is eighteenth-century origin.

Visit the Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte - Arruda dos Vinhos

The Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte is located in the parish of Arruda dos Vinhos, in a pleasant place to picnic where the feature is enchanted landscape of Arruda dos Vinhos.

Visit the Aqueduct of Arruda dos Vinhos

The Aqueduct of Arruda dos Vinhos was built in the century. XVIII. Carrying water from the hillside near the present village of Mata to the Fountain of Pombal Arruda dos Vinhos.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady Help - Arranhó

Visit the Church of San Lorenzo - Arranhó

The Church of San Lorenzo, located in the Town of Arranhó, have been built in 1504.
It is a church nave supported on the outside of the left side, two massive buttresses. Cunhal in the right front has a bell tower with two bells and clock, served by spiral stone staircase. The headboard consists of the chancel and two side altars. The chancel opens with two arches connected and surmounted by a niche, and the bottom is covered with carved gilt wood exposed at the top, a large crucifix, flanked by statues of St. Lawrence and St. Francis of Assisi. The altar is of stone and is in the center of the sanctuary. The altar on the Gospel side has the image of Our Lady of Mercy, wood, and the Epistle side is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima. A thick balustrade presbirério closes.
On the side of the Gospel side altar there is an open wall and niche dedicated to Our Lady. To the left of the altar stands a stone pulpit, served by a ladder from the same material. On the same wall at the back of the church, opened in the chapel is the Baptistery with sink and central niche with a representative icon of the Baptism of Jesus. On the opposite wall, a shrine venerated identical to Santa Catarina.
The ceiling is covered in wood, with rectangular panels painted. The central panel, in addition to other common motifs, representing the Blessed Sacrament.
In the back of the church on the main door, is the choir, built in polychrome wood, based on the corners in the capitals of stone embedded museum walls and supported in front by two cylindrical columns of stone. The balustrade frontral bears the date 1755. The paintings represent the bottom, and various decorative motifs, symbols related to S. Lawrence.

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Arruda dos Vinhos is a Portuguese town in the district of Lisbon, with about 5800 inhabitants.
It is home to a small municipality with 77.71 km ² and 11,795 inhabitants (2006), divided into four parishes (Arranhó, Arruda dos Vinhos, Cardosas of Santiago and Old). The city is limited to the northern city of Swindon, southeast of Vila Franca de Xira, south of Loures, Mafra by the west and northwest by Sobral.
A document dated 1172 by a donation from the town of the Order of Santiago Alvarez, warrant plowing by Dom Afonso Henriques, seems to be the oldest official document found so far regarding the "foundation" of the legal district.
Under the new Charters of Reading, Manuel gave in 1517, the village Foral de Arruda.

Short Historical Review

Situated in a fertile valley and mild, the ancient town of Arruda dos Vinhos dazzles, not only for its rich history but also by the well known hospitality of its people. You can scroll through the narrow streets of historic Arruda and feel the mystery and magic of medieval Portuguese. Here and there, the place names of streets, yards and places, suggests the existence of former royal palaces. The first monarch, we are left with the testimony of a document giving the village the Religious and Military Order of Santiago in 1172, proving, indeed, the importance and notoriety that the town already owned at the time. It was this Order which was a real engine of rural development in the region to make up a convent on the site Vilar, intended to accommodate the wives of the Knights who journeyed to the South, during the anniversary of the Reconquista. They were engaged in farming, by leasing land, promoting thus the dynamics of agriculture, especially the cultivation of the vine, given the exceptional features of this area for this type of activity.
Not only Arruda dos Vinhos since ancient times was an important center of wine production, but also because these places have been coming to see traces of an important ancient trading route of this product, widely appreciated, within and beyond the sea. This rich heritage, there is still today the development and expansion of activity in wine in a large part of the territory of the municipality.
For all this, even today, in villages and farms that surround couples and complete the harmony of the valleys, to work hard the fields are cultivated fertile floodplains, and prepare for the famous vineyards and bountiful harvests of autumn so well that typify the land and fill color. This long ritual labor and wisdom resulting annually in November, the Feast of Vine and Wine.

What to Visit

In the Town of Arranhó:
Church of St. Lawrence
Shrine of Our Lady of Help

In the Town of Arruda dos Vinhos:
Aqueduct
Chapel of Our Lady of Mount
Chapel of St. Lazarus
Fountain
Church of Mercy Hospital and
Church
Memorial to fighters of the Great War
Windmill of Corredoura
Bullring José Marques Simões
Clock Tower

In the Town of Cardosas:
Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Viewpoint of Cardosas
Windmill

In the Parish of St. James of the Old:
Chapel of Carvalhas
Church
Windmill couple of the Lark


Where to sleep:
Quinta de Santa Maria
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