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Showing posts with label Colares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colares. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2011

Visit the Ribeira de Colares

Visit the Solar da Quinta do Vinagre - Necklaces

The Solar da Quinta do Vinagre, located in the Town of Colares, is an interesting example of the noble houses of five hundred cottages. Its L-shaped plant is the result of a reconstruction of the century. XVIII. The facades, sober, simple feature windows. In the entrance courtyard, where a long terrace runs based on open colonnade, there is a tank with two heraldic lions.

Visit Quinta da Palma - Necklaces

Visit the Little Beach - Necklaces

Little Beach, located in the Town of Colares is difficult to access but is preferred by many to be housed.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Visit the Beach of Apples - Necklaces

Praia das Macas, Colares located in Town, is named after the river that flows into have gone there in time, among orchards, so the fruit when it was ripe, fell into the water and went to the beach. The beach is approximately 250 meters. Both ends of the beach, either the left or right side, there are rocks where you can fish with some stability.

Visit Ursa Beach - Necklaces

The beach of the Great Bear, owned by the Town of Colares, is in the Natural Park of Sintra-Cascais.
The descent to the beach is long and some what difficult, but rewarded by the stunning natural beauty and wild 'Bear'.
The beach got its name from the huge stone in the shape of a bear, along side another name Giant rock formation. With about 50 meters long, this beach is very pretty, but it gets a little space at high tide.

Visit Pool Azenhas Sea - Colares

Visit the Pool of Praia Grande - Necklaces

Visit the Swimming Beach of Apples - Necklaces

Visit Pelourinho Colares

The pillory Colares is type Manuelian and probably contemporary renewal of the Provincial Necklaces in 1516.
Presents basic prismatic shaft studded with flowers emerging in the spiral grooves that are repeated at the top, the conical pyramid rests on a lush fluorescence.
It is different from the medieval pillory the richness of decoration and by the force of the artistic sense that was ornate, the pillory is the best example of such a monument of the time Manuelina.

Visit the footprints Dinaussauro Praia Grande - Necklaces

The footprints of dinaussauro da Praia Grande, Colares in Town, are located 50 meters from the beach of Praia Grande on an almost vertical slab of the staircase leading to the houses on the far left of the beach. Cretaceous footprints are lower, with about 110 to 115 million years.
According to studies, the deposit of Praia Grande hasvery deep footprints corresponding to at least two types of animals - herbivores and carnivores - a total of 66 tracks, 55 of which spread over 11 tracks that appear to have been made ​​by bipedal animals, with the remainder apparently isolated.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Visit the Museum Renato Garcia Lobo - Necklaces

Renato Garcia Lobo The Museum, located in Almoçageme Parish of necklaces, presents a collection of historic materials related to the activities of firefighters, including photographs, books and articles.

Visit the Viewpoint of Azenhas Sea - Colares

The Lookout Azenhas Sea, located in the Town of Colares, is built on cliffs that descend to the ocean. It is a place much frequented by the grandeur of the view it provides. There, one can see the Atlantic Ocean in all its splendor.
On the right, one sees the village of the watermills of the Sea, composed of small white houses, trimmed in blue, as if carved into rocks.

Visit the Church of Saint Anthony - Necklaces

The church of Santo Antonio, located in the Village of rock, a village of Colares, have been built in the late sixteenth-early seventeenth centuries. This Church is classified as a Public Interest.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary - Necklaces

The church of Our Lady of the Rosary, located in the village of Eugaria Parish of Colares, a modest work the late-eighteenth-century vernacular in nature and devoid of ornaments, which shows typical axial gantry architecture dictates of Pombal. It triumphal arch of masonry that has for shallow chancel, standing there only the throne of Lady.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows - Necklaces

The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, located in Mucifal, parish of necklaces, was launched in 1941.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Health - Necklaces

The Church of Our Lady of Health, located in Azóia Parish of collars is of recent construction. It was inaugurated on September 23, 1995.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Grace - Necklaces

The Church of Our Lady of Grace, located in Almoçageme Parish of Necklaces.

Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Necklaces

The church of Nossa Senhora da Conceicao da Ulgueira belonging to the village of Colares, the sixteenth-century foundation. Most notable are the unique portal Mannerist, dated 1566. The porch is made up from a nimble "serliana" whose clipped gable design features bold and erudite, probably written by Francis Ollanda as well as the font-of-holy water kept inside, representing a patera.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Necklaces

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Church orNecklaces Matrix was built in the second half of the sixteenth century and is a good example of "plains architecture. "