Visit the Pillory of São Vicente da Beira

The Pillory of São Vicente da Beira is located in the parish of São Vicente da Beira. It is classified as a Property of Public Interest.
This pillory should date from the time when D. Manuel I awarded the town with its second charter card in 1512. It rests on a circular three-step punch, and is made up of an eighth section shaft surmounted by a pyramidal shot. Each face of the pine cone has a heraldic bas-relief: the national shield, a ship with two crows (symbol of St. Vincent), the pelican and the cross of Avis. At the top is a rooster-shaped weather vane.

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.