Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora das Candeias - Vide

The Church of Our Lady of Candles, located in the Town of Vide, is a temple of two large ships, without great artistic effects and popular architecture.
The main body of the sixteenth century, has four round arches and masonry dome cove; the aisle, shorter, has three arches, also of masonry, and its medieval dome design with wavy ribs, is divided into four half moons.
Front of the High Altar, richly carved in baroque century. Seventeenth century there are three graves. XVI.
In the second chapel on the side of the Epistle, is the underground tomb, enclosed by a board worked and dated 1653, of Friar Gaspar Ribeiro de Simas and his wife, D. Frances de Siqueira. In the bow was set in front of your coat.

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 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 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 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 Bridge of Pego - Terrugem

Visit the Church of St. John the Beheaded - Terrugem

The Church of St. John the Beheaded, located in the Town of Terrugem, have been built in the sixteenth century. Displays Manueline and Mannerist. It has bell tower crowned by a dome pierced by fire pits bull's eye, with a clock dated 1807. Inside, the nave is covered with carpet tiles dating from 1681. Front of the altars lined Seville tiles of the sixteenth century. The Chancel, Manueline, has the marble altar piece, dated 1824. At the altar, a polychrome sculpture representing the head of S. John the Baptist. In the baptismal chapel there is a polychrome tile panel where the Baptism of Christ figure and a small panel of polychrome tiles with the figuration of Our Lady.

Visit the Fountain of Armes - Terrugem

The fountain of Armes, located in the Town of Terrugem, is an example of civic architecture, public policy, that the Romans left many copies throughout the empire.
The fountain is located three meters below the current level of the ground, attached to the base of the south wall of a wide shaft of square section, now covered by a concrete slab and with a hand pump to draw water. A narrow staircase leads to the fountain. This consists of a rectangular box, formed by several slabs of marble with a broken back and ruptured. The sides and rear are higher in relation to the anterior wall, functioning as this parapet. The area outside the left wall has a chopped thick, broad and irregular, which seems to indicate that the slab was originally hidden.
The tank is supplied with water from a nearby spring through a pipeline that ends in an underground circular hole, opened near the right edge of the posterior wall of the tank, about 85 cm from the bottom.
One of the main interests of this fountain is an epigraph slab with 17 cm thick, that tops the deposit.

Visit the Fountain of Godigana - Terrugem

Visit the Parque da Pena - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The Pena Park located in the Parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim, in the Serra de Sintra is a walled compound, located on the summits of the area east of the Eastern Sierra, with high cliffs and sharp valleys, north exposure preferred. The maximum height of the park is at High Cross (the highest peak in the Sierra, with 528 meters) and the lower zone is the Feteira Countess, standing at 380 meters.
The park is composed of multiple plots, over its nearly 200 hectares, with different characteristics, served by a very widespread network of paths which constitute a real and deliberate maze. Inside, stand buildings of great beauty, like the Countess Chalet, the Temple of Columns, the Throne, the Palace and the Lakes.

Visit the Palacio da Pena - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The Pena National Palace, located in the historic town of Sintra, Parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra), represents one of the best architectural expressions of Romanticism in nineteenth-century world. On July 7, 2007 he was elected as one of the seven wonders of Portugal, and indeed the first European romantic palace, built about 30 years before the charismatic Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.
Almost all the Palace is built on huge rocks, and boasts a mix of styles (Gothic, neomanuelino, neo-Islamic, neo-Renaissance art with other suggestions such as India).

Structurally, the Pena Palace is divided into four main areas:

The harness and encircling walls (which served to consolidate the implementation of construction), with two doors, one of which is provided with a drawbridge;

The body, fully restored, the old convent, slightly angled at the top of the hill, thoroughly embattled and the Clock Tower;

The Courtyard of the Arches front of the chapel, with its wall of Moorish arches;

The palace area itself with its round bastion of large, with an interior decorated in the style cathédrale, according to precepts in vogue and motivating key interventions at the level of decorative furniture and decoration in general.

The bow of the body, flanked by two towers, has a colorful decoration in relief to imitate coral. On it, a window, bow window, received at the base, also in relief, a figure of a hybrid, half-fish, half-man, leaving a shell with the head covered by hair that transforms into a trunk vine whose branches are supported by the enigmatic character. This set, known as the porch of Triton, was programmed by D. Fernando, who designed it as a 'gantry Allegoria of the creation of the world ", and seems to condense in symbolic terms the theory of" four elements ".

The building is very irregular and is conditioned by a preexisting building there - the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Pena - and by topography. The result is a roughly rectangular core, organized around a cloister and other elongated.
The facades are divided by bocéis or twisted and fenestrated, more or less regularly, and spans square, rectangular and round arch. The towers and ramparts have rings on top dog or arcatura forming sentry paths, gazebos and terraces. Since the square towers are circular turrets at the corners with conical roofs.
The main facade is lined with polychrome tile pattern and has a balcony at the third floor. At the core square, stand out several broken arches on side walls. A staircase leads to the cloister U, two-storey arcade with full arches in the first and the second shot. Around these have to be some of the main rooms.
On the north side is the chapel, lined with tile pattern with the spacecraft separated from the chancel by web in lignum vitae.
The design of the interiors of the Palace to adapt to the summer residence of the royal family appreciated the excellent stucco work, murals and trompe-l'oeil several coats of tile nineteenth century, integrating the many royal collections in environments where the taste for for collecting and trinket shops are quite clear.

Visit the Viewpoint of Santa Eufemia - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The Mirador de Santa Eufemia, located on the highest point of the Serra de Sintra, in the parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra), displays the entire area to the Sintra, Cascais, Amadora, Oeiras and Lisbon and visibility is good Tagus River andsouthern shore .

Visit Lake Pena Park - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

Visit the Church of San Pedro de Canaferrim - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The ancient church of San Pedro de Canaferrim in some of the Moorish Castle, Parish of Saint Peter of Penaferrim (Sintra), will most likely coeval with charter granted by King Afonso Henriques in 1154 and have been the first parish Sintra. In 1493, however, was already abandoned.
They are two separate buildings, both invoking the Guardian of Heaven, distinguished only by invoking such a place name that carried. Therefore, it is noted that the purpose still current form - Penaferrim - sees itself as a modern way, certainly influenced by Pena ("hill", "end"), the former toponym Canaferrim (this certificate in the eighteenth century and still today associated with the towering Romanesque), which, in turn, derived from the medieval toponym Calaferrim (Arabic qala'â), whose meaning can be "town situated on the plateau or sheer cliff. "
These are the ruins of the dilapidated church of San Pedro de Canaferrim comprising the list of World Heritage property.