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Showing posts with label Arruda dos Vinhos (Town). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arruda dos Vinhos (Town). Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011
Visit the Clock Tower - Arruda dos Vinhos
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
Distrito de Lisboa,
Torres,
Watches
Visit the Bullring José Marques Simões - Arruda dos Vinhos
Visit the Windmill Corredoura - Arruda dos Vinhos
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
Distrito de Lisboa,
Windmills
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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.
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
Bells,
Churches,
Lisbon District,
Tiles,
Torres
Visit the Church of Mercy Hospital - Arruda dos Vinhos
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
Churches,
District of Lisbon
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 centuryThis 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.
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
D. Joseph,
Fountains,
Lisbon District,
Real Estate Public Interest
Visit the Chapel of St. Lazarus - Arruda dos Vinhos
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
Chapels,
Distrito de Lisboa
Visit the Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte - Arruda dos Vinhos
Etiquetas:
Arruda dos Vinhos,
Arruda dos Vinhos (Town),
Chapels,
Distrito de Lisboa
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