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Showing posts with label Benfeita. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benfeita. Show all posts

Friday, October 1, 2010

Visit the Peace Tower - Benfeita

The Peace Tower, located in the Village of Benfeita, rings bells in 1620 (which lasted for days the 2nd World War) every year on May 7 - the day lasting peace in Portugal during the conflict.
It was probably one of the first places in the country to know the news of the war's end.
Immediately, the church bells rang, as happens every year since.
This tower has a clock that is a fine example of old mechanical watches.

Visit the River Beach Benfeita

The beach of Benfeita river, is located in the village of Shale Benfeita in the place where the rivers join Forest and Carcavão.
This river is fit for the practice of bathing activity. It consists of a dam that created at the bottom, a "mirror pool", and whose banks are composed of a sand that allows bathers to stay near the water.

Visit the Bridge of Fraga da Pena - Benfeita

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Visit the Forest Margaraça - Benfeita

The Forest Margaraça, located in the Town of Benfeita, integrates Biogenetic Reserves Network the Council of Europe, viewed as a site of community interest, due to its unrivaled natural value. The vegetation that characterizes it is oak, arbutus, the ilex, the hazel, cherry, honeysuckle, martagon, the elm and Heather (whose pollen gives a taste of honey so characteristic Açor Mountain), along with a high coverage of mosses, lichens and fungi. The Forest Margaraça has the character of the relic primeval forest vegetation on the slopes schist.

Visit the Church of St. Cecilia - Benfeita

The Parish Church of Benfeita contains the image of the patron saint of the village of Santa Cecilia, who is the patron saint of musicians.

Visit the Church of slums - Benfeita

Visit the Source of the Flies - Benfeita

Visit the Fountain of corral - Benfeita

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Visit Cascade of Fraga da Pena - Benfeita

The Cascade of Fraga da Pena, located in Woods Margaça, Town of Benfeita, is a mountain waterfall. This cascade is a total height of more than seventy meters (the main gap of Fraga da Pena has 20 m).
This cascade must originate in a geological accident and is considered one of the largest gains among the natural resources of the protected landscape of the Serra do Goshawk. The waters that crashed this cascade run by a very tight mountain valley, thus giving rise to a micropaisagem, which emerges suddenly endowed with abundant vegetation cover the shale.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of the Assumption - Benfeita

Visit the Chapel of St. Simon - Benfeita

Visit the Chapel of St. Bartholomew - Benfeita

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Needs - Benfeita