Visiting the Convent of São Jorge de Milreus - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

The Convent of São Jorge de Milreus, located in the parish of Castelo Viegas, was founded in 1080.
By the mid-twelfth century, the Convent would have attained great prosperity, as appears to be apparent from the great donation that Salvador Viegas made to the cenobium in 1159 of a remarkable array of goods in the immediate vicinity.
What can be seen today in São Jorge de Milreus is the product of a major remodeling campaign carried out from 1526. This monumental Mannerist campaign was one of many Jesuits throughout the country, entering in the institution's government precisely in this 16th century. For the next two centuries, the convent was the subject of numerous partial artistic campaigns, notably the tiled coverings of the church and the chapter room, dating from the first half of the 18th century, and the joanine painting campaign by André Gonçalves for the chapel. love the church.
From 1834, with the passage to the possession of private, Milreus saw his artistic heritage successively alienated, although his space has always had occupation.

Visit the Coimbra Major Seminary Building - Almedina (Coimbra)

The Coimbra Major Seminary Building, located in the Parish of Almedina, is a sui generis building given its Italian architecture and featuring several spaces that are worth a close visit.
Noteworthy is the Sagrada Familia church, with its dome, considered one of the most beautiful in the country; the reliquary chapel of S. Miguel; the Old Library, with more than 9,000 books from 1507 to 1800; the episcopal chambers; the tile room; and the Mondego Balcony, which has a magnificent view over the city. Noteworthy is a woodcut by Monsignor Nunes Pereira, a canvas by the famous painter Grão Vasco and the 18th century pipe organ, built in 1762 by João Fontana de Maquera, which falls under the category of “Iberian organs” and which has 1500 tubes.

Visit the Church of the Misericordia - Castelo Branco

The Misericórdia Church, located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, is also known as Santo António Church.
An early church was built in the 18th century. XVI by Simão Silva and together with a house that worked as a hospital constituted the Misericordia.
It is the Johannine baroque that marks the physiognomy of the present building, in the sculptural exuberance of the facade confined to the narrow street in which it is located. In the pediment of the portal we can see the image of Santa Isabel and in the cunhal of the temple a niche guard of Santo António.
In the interior, of single nave, stand out the seiscentistas representations of the Visitation and the Espousals of Santa Isabel with San Zacarias, in the altars of the lateral chapels. The main chapel has a baroque altar with gilded carving and a polychrome wood image of San Francisco. On the painted wooden ceiling, we can see a local work representing the center of Pentecost.

Visit the Church and Convent of São Bento - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Church of São Bento, located in the parish of Santa Maria, Bragança, is part of a convent founded in 1590 by order of D. Maria Teixeira, occupying the houses that belonged to it. Even today, the stones of arms visible in the facade of the temple and the pediment of baroque style are visible. In the interior the ceiling of the vaulted nave stands out, with paintings by Manuel Caetano Fortuna, the chapel with altarpiece of 1721 and the ceiling that boasts an excellent scenic painting, using the Trompe-l'oeil technique.

Visit the Church of Santa Maria - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Church of Santa Maria, located in the parish of Santa Maria, in the city of Bragança, was built in the 17th century. XIV.
Considered as the oldest church of Bragança, it is of Romanesque style and was, during two centuries, modified, having resulted in a Baroque style. The façade features a baroque portal richly decorated with two salomonic columns decorated with leaves of vines and clusters.
Its interior is formed by three naves separated by polygonal columns, that support the arches and a scenic painting, in the cover of the body of the Church, representing the Assumption of the Virgin. The main chapel and chapel of the Figueiredos, the altarpiece to Saint Stephen and the image of Santa Maria Magdalena stand out.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Ribeira - Quintanilha

The Chapel of Our Lady of Ribeira, located in the Parish of Quintanilha, was erected in the second quarter of the thirteenth century.
The great structural alterations and, above all, the decorative program of the Chapel of Senhora da Ribeira date back to the first half of the 16th century, when part of the planimetry was altered and a set of murals of high quality were executed. The main altarpiece is already from the sixteenth century.
The chapel, with longitudinal plan, presents main façade in gable, truncated by the arrangement of a double bell, with portal in pointed arch with several archivolts. The side facades have eaves, being torn by portals in a perfect back arc.
The interior space, covered by wooden ceiling decorated with paintings and carved motifs, is divided into three naves of six sections marked by the arrangement of columns and pillars. It has a granite pulpit on the side of the Gospel with the faces engraved in relief. The broken triumphal arch opens to the main chapel, narrower and lower than the body of the church.
The main chapel has in the center the altar with mannerist tabernacle flanked by four columns. In the wall of the tomb and in the murano cloth on the side of the gospel were discovered in 1978-1979 the fifteenth panels of mural painting on the Marian and Christological themes.

Visit the Biscainhos Museum - Sé (Braga)

The Museum of the Biscainhos, located in the Parish of the Cathedral, is installed in a remarkable patrimonial set composed by property and garden.

The Museum of the Biscainhos has as a programmatic component the illustration of the experience in the Portuguese noble society, in the context of a seigniorial house of the XVII and XVIII centuries.

The building has interiors of great artistic interest, namely, compartments with parietal tile coverings from the 16th century. XVIII and ceilings with paintings and ornamental treatments.

It presents to the public a sequence of spaces that give a view of the occupations, tastes and traditions of our ancestors of the nobility of the XVII and XVIII centuries, being able to visit the Atrium, the Noble Hall, the Showrooms, Oratory, Music, the Dining Room, the Stables and the Old Kitchens. As an obligatory complement of the visit, the baroque gardens unfold in a show of artistic and environmental beauty, defining the formal garden and the old orchard and vegetable garden.

Visit the Casa das Goladas - São Victor (Braga)

Casa das Goladas, located in the parish of São Victor, was built in the 1860s. In this house some of its rooms are decorated with paintings.

Visit the Church of the former Convent of Salvador - São João do Souto (Braga)

The Church of the former Convent of Salvador, located in the Parish of St. John of the Souto, was built in the early seventeenth century and rebuilt after 1908. The church is decorated in the Baroque style, highlighted by the ceiling painted by Domingos Lourenço in 1622.

Visit Braga Arts Station - Maximinos (Braga)

The Station de Artes, located in the Parish of Maximinos is a School of Arts and Shows in Braga. The Arts Station offers courses, workshps and classes for the training of the smallest and most grown in areas such as Music, Dance, Theater, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Writing, Therapeutic Art, Natural Medicine Therapies, among others.

It has a Concert Café with Stage and an average of 300 seats for student presentations, theme nights, karaokes, presentation of new talents, among others.

It operates in the old building of the Braga Railway Station.

Visit the Misericórdia Church - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)

The Church of the Misericórdia de Beja, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), is an emblematic and beautiful example of the transition architecture between the Renaissance and the Mannerism in Portugal, full of understanding of the sources of tratadistics and forms learned from the Italian mannerist lesson.

The building is developed in longitudinal plant composed by the volumes of the galilee, the main chapel and the dependencies.

The facade is composed of the sumptuous effect of the galilee, loggia of rusticado device inspired "in the engraving of Serlio that reproduced the average floor of the amphitheater of Verona". The Mannerist arcades are deeply marked in their verticality, creating a set of ribs supported in Corinthian columns, of clear classic taste. In the wall, preceded by stairs, wall and railing, the portal of the temple opens, with pediment of classic lines very purified. The body of the church, installed in the space that originally corresponded to the third section of the loggia, lost part of the original decorative program, possibly due to the undue uses that the space had from the first half of the nineteenth century. From its primitive integrated patrimony there remain the pulpit and four tablets with scenes of the life of Christ belonging to the altarpiece, executed in 1564 by the eborense painter António Nogueira, who are in the Regional Museum of Beja.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Boats

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, located in the Town of boats, is a medieval temple architecture, Mannerist and Baroque. Longitudinal plant, consisting of nave, a medieval structure, the chancel and the lower close, Mannerist, and sacristy addorsed the front left side, with different covers interiors, wooden trough in the nave and barrel vault false wooden painted wood panel in the main chapel, sparsely lit by windows and cracks in capialço.
The main facade, in gable, with gaps torn in the shaft, composed of carved portal in round arch imposed based on salient, three archivolts, decorated by motifs, and crack, too perfect round. The facades are topped by a cornice and frieze in the chapel and in dogs and cornice on the ship, attesting to their greater antiquity and different eras of construction, and the side ripped through the back door in pointed arch, with taxes raised and decorated by archivolts vegetal and geometric motifs.
On the front left side stands the bell with three ventanas, upper smaller, cornice and topped with pinnacles.
Inside the nave, is preserved and the choir in two arcosolium pointed arch, which houses the tombs particular, a pulpit square, with its canopy, in Mannerist style, wood with inlays of brass, wicker door access line at side of the Gospel. The triumphal arch, perfect round, the pulley is completely covered in baroque style that extends the national structure of the side altars, plant, and a straight shaft, uncharacteristic of structure, but showing an early Mannerist treatment with ribbed trim at the table, and have been refurbished to adapt to the structure of which involved carving the triumphal arch.
To preserve the internal roof painted with hagiographic theme in the main chapel and the sacristy, the panels having been thrown out of the ship.
The altarpiece of the high altar, in gold leaf, plant, and a hollow shaft, is a fine example of Baroque national database preserving the primitive granite. The soffit of the triumphal arch boasts murals decorative character, and you can see in the Tribune House murals wall that marked the headband. It saves dogs decorated in Romanesque interior of the sacristy, on the wall that abuts the main chapel.
This Church is classified as a National Monument.

Visit the Church of Mercy - St. Mary Major (Chaves)

The Church of Mercy, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Chaves) was installed in 1580. However, his church was only built in the second half of the seventeenth century and is marked by an exuberant Baroque aesthetic and harmonious.
Access to the church of Mercy is performed by a wide staircase. Proportionality and harmony underscore the facade of this temple in the second half of the seventeenth century, adopting a refined baroque grammar.
The wedges are marked in front by pilasters and granite capitelizadas. The ground floor is open for three arched openings of the grid, which provide a starting gate. Addorsed its pillars are four spiral columns of Corinthian capitals and based on pedestals decorated scheme that is repeated on the upper floor and on an entablature noted, three bay windows flanking and right spar with balustrade. The strong cornice is marked by massive pinnacles and bulging in the middle of which stands a crown flanked by fins and scrolls surrounding a central niche with a bas-relief commemorating the glorification of Mercy, curved pediment surmounted by stopped and topped by a Latin cross.
Above the lobby is located in the choir. The church body is a single nave, with its valued walls with tile flooring of the eighteenth century, drawing outlined architectures that fall episodes of the Old and New Testament. The roof of the church is painted with a Visitation, composition performed in 1743 by the painter Jerome Braga da Rocha.
The chancel presents a grand and gilded altarpiece, baroque composition of the eighteenth century, while the vestry has some quality paintings, including a table of the seventeenth century and allusive to Purgatory.

Visit the Fort St. Neutel - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

The Fort of São Neutel, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys).
His works have been initiated in the context of the Restoration War between 1664 and 1668, when it proceeded with the petrification of the Trinity High stakes and construction of the fort.
The strong features quadrangular, organic (adapted to the terrain), with bastions at the corners, in Vauban style, surrounded by a dry moat and a second defensive line.
Access to the fort is made ​​by a solid stone bridge, which connects the outer wall of the gate arms.
The walls of granite, have a meter to a meter and a half thick, with a height ranging from seven to ten meters.
Inside, there is the Chapel of Our Lady of Sprout. It has a single altar with a statue of St. Neutel, lying to the Lady of Brotas (persistence of an ancient pagan cult of Ceres) represented in a painting hung on the sidewall.

Visit the Church of Santa Maria da Graça (Setúbal)

The Church of Our Lady of Grace Cathedral and Setúbal, located in the Parish of Our Lady of Grace in the heart of the original medieval village Setubal, having been around this that has developed the most important medieval district of the city, as well as the religious center and administrative policy.
Founded in the thirteenth century, the current building is a reconstruction of the High Renaissance Mannerist with an imposing facade. Within columns with fresh, carving and tiles from the XVII and XVIII.

Visit the Church of St. John the Baptist (Tomar)

The Church of St. John the Baptist is the late fifteenth century and has a Manueline portal surmounted by an octagonal spire.
Inside is a pulpit carved in stone, with tiles called "Diamond Tip" and sixteenth-century paintings including a Last Supper of Gregory Lopes.
The church was classified as a National Monument in 1910.

Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Paialvo

The Church of the Immaculate Conception, located in Carrazeda Parish of Paialvo, is a temple that is now more than four hundred years, although it has been amended. The front gable has a beak, flanked by a bell tower with a window of the choir and an oculus at the top. Two niches flanking the door of hewn stone, with ornate Renaissance origin. Each one holds its image: on one hand, Our Lady Mother of Men, on the other, the Holy Trinity. They are both stone and the same period. Inside, the nave, two side altars, and two side altar. They all have gilded altarpieces with ashlar and a nineteenth-century blue and yellow tiles of the 'standard', the eighteenth century, which also coats the entire chapel. The roof of the church is still the original belt, painted with ornamental motifs.

Visit the Monastery of San Salvador - Grijó

The Monastery of San Salvador, located in the Town of Grijó, was founded in the year 922 and was expanded in the late eleventh century. Over time, this old monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine had undergone substantial changes in its architectural profile.
Its facade is modest, consisting of a porch with three round arches based on pilasters, surmounted by niches containing sculptures stony S. Peter and St. Paul, with a facade topped by a pediment. At the base of the front develops a feature of mannerist balcony, while the left side rises, separated from the body of the facade, a disproportionate bell tower.
The interior has a Latin cross plan and the body of a single nave, covered by a vault reinforced by arches authors/cre- ators. Before the ship a hall decorated with tiles enxaquetados, from the chapter room manufacturing sixteenth century. The craft shows six side chapels, which are part of the stage setting compositions gilded baroque altarpiece.
The transept, separated from the nave by a railing in black wood, is covered by a ribbed vault and has two balanced Mannerist carved altarpieces. The bow of the cruise has a niche housing a statue of Christ the Savior and the Pelican, a symbol of selflessness.
The chancel was completed in 1626 and is covered by decorated with coffered barrel vault. The walls are covered with carpet tiles, with a standard seventeenth-century baroque. In the background it must be constituted by the soft huge gilded reredos Johannine, which was added in 1795 monumental canvas of Peter of Alexandria. Ostentatious baroque stalls eighteenth century paneled in black wood is complemented by several hagiographic paintings, works of authorship D. Diogo - canon of this Augustinian monastery.
The sacristy is covered with paneled ceiling and shows its walls covered with ornamental carpets century tiles.
Something disproportionate are the galleries of the cloister of the sixteenth century, due to the greater height of the top. The two floors are the rhythmic elegance of an Ionic colonnade, while the central space of the cloister is marked by a fountain Mannerist. The exterior of the upper galleries is lined with tile panels with pictures of the seventeenth century hagiographic, which can break the austere simplicity of the lines of the mannerist cloister.
The northern gallery of the cloister has a small arcosolium housing the magnificent tomb of Queen Rodrigo Sanchez, son of D. Sancho and Mary Pais Ribeira - infant who died in combat in the year 1245, this monastery nearby. Poorly preserved, his coffin is a beautiful work of Romanesque sculpture, made ​​of white limestone Ançã in themiddle of thirteenth century.

Visit the Church of Grijó

The Church of Grijó has tiled walls of the seventeenth century altarpiece carved chairs, black wood and good paintings.

Visit the Chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres - Avintes

The Chapel of Our Lady of Joy, located in the Town of Avintes has a very simple architecture. The altar is not a style defined with the cocktail of carvings that compose it. It consists of four twisted columns surmounted by capitals, and in the center there is a niche framed with the painting of the Virgin Mary to flee to Egypt. This chapel has been built in the century. XVI.