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Showing posts with label Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal). Show all posts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Visit Albarquel Beach - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Albarquel Beach, located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal), which has extensive sands associated with the beauty of the landscape and the ease to park leads to this beach many swimmers, this despite having been banned from swimming a few years ago .

Visit Figueirinha Beach - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

Figueirinha Beach, located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal), presents a calm sea and a landscape surrounded by the Capuchin Convent of great beauty which makes it one of the best known beaches in the region and, therefore, very busy during the summer. One long sandbank emerges during low tide.

Visit the Beach of Commendation - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Commandery of the Praia, located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal, is a popular beach big turnout, with a beautiful view of Troy and the Sado Estuary. Unfortunately access to this beach is only possible with low tide.

Visit the fishing port of Setubal - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

Visit the Pelourinho de Setúbal - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

Pelourinho de Setúbal is located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation, county and district of Setubal, Portugal. Its white marble column has a capital of Corinthian type.
It is classified as a National Monument.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Visit the Monument of the Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Monument to-bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation, is a symbol of the city of Setubal and the Sado River Bottlenose dolphins that come into the group in Sado estuary to feed and who make delight of those who see them jumping out of water.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Church of Our Lady of Annunciation Church is the former Convent of Santa Teresa, located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal). Guard interesting tile eighteenth century. Cloister floor, simple and proportionate.

Visit the Fort St. Philip - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Fort of São Filipe de Setúbal, located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation, has structure in the Mannerist style. In stone masonry and brick, lined with stone masonry, has an irregular polygonal star (organic) with six prismatic ramparts and watchtowers at the corners covered with domes protruding, surrounded by a moat. On the land side, the defense is complemented by a second wall (counterscarp), outside the moat.
In its interior, which is accessed by a gate Arms west walls, defended by two ramparts, there is a lobby gives access to a tunnel of stone masonry, with a wide and smooth staircase with two flights of stairs. This, in turn, is covered by a dome and the level of their bids gives access to the bunkers. At its end are the service buildings: the Command House (former residence of the Governor of Arms) and the Chapel on the left.

Visit Fort Santiago, Outão - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Outão Fort Santiago, located in the north of the River Sado bar, in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal).
Joined in the past, the defensive line the stretch of coast known today in terms of tourism, such as Riviera, and in the seventeenth century, extending from the Albarquel Sesimbra, complementing the protection of important maritime town of Setubal.
This combines strong elements of late medieval military architecture (abaluartada), Gothic and Mannerist, following the evolution of artillery.
Irregular polygonal features (organic) which is inscribed the medieval tower of three floors, with bay windows and balconies to kill dogs in wedges.
Around the tower is the old service dependencies of the fort, with two and three floors, including the chapel under the invocation of Santiago in the west. Covering the side of the sea, stand with three bastions platforms for artillery, by the side of the earth, there is a tenalha with two bastions and high wall slope. In the salient angles of the bastions rise covered circular sentry boxes.

Visit the New Source - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)