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Showing posts with label Pillories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pillories. Show all posts

Saturday, November 2, 2019

Visit the Pillory of Sarzedas

The Pillory of Sarzedas is located in the parish of Sarzedas. It has been classified as a Public Interest Property since 1933.
The original pillory, possibly contemporary of the Manueline charter, was destroyed in the late 19th century. Three finial fragments, the only remaining elements, were integrated into the 1963 reconstitution. It has an octagonal stem decorated at the angles with bosantes. On the capital, also decorated with half spheres, rests a cubic block of faces adorned with very eroded heraldic motifs, topped by a pyramid.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Valença do Douro

The Pillory of Valença do Douro, based on a cylindrical platform with three steps. The shaft is built on a square chamfered corners. The capital is a square block lying on it, a larger square board, with the shot a piece pyramidal.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Visit the Pillory Sendim

The Pillory Sendim platform has three steps with square shaft composed of two monoliths, eighth at the notch corners. Column that widens at the top, where it supports the strike. This extends in a concave shape on its four sides, finishing with four pinnacles decorating boleada pyramidal in its vertices.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Chaves - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

Pelourinho Keys, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major, is in revival neomanuelino, rectangular board with four small columns in the corners and added an armillary sphere core reconstructions of the century. XX.
Punch square plan consisting of five steps. This side has six steps, due to the slope of the pavement of the Square. Prismatic plinth with frames and bevel the edges. Fuste torso, consisting of three elements, supporting frames and a capital with a frieze with plant decoration. On one side the arms of the capital of the kingdom, the other the Keys: coat with the arms of Portugal, with a crown of eight castles, flanked by two large keys with palhetões three teeth facing up and toward the center, serving as support , section of bridge consists of four arches. On the corners of the board formed by the four captains stand out twisted small columns, with the central plain and the other a larger bosselated and topped by an armillary sphere.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Visit the Pillory Paialvo

The Pillory Paialvo is placed on a stone platform, with three circular steps, based on which the stem consists of two stones, featuring the top truncated cone with a sphere on top, both in stone.
Paialvo, was once the county seat until 1836.
The Pillory Paialvo is now listed as a cultural heritage building.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Soalhães

The Pillory Soalhães presents a platform of three steps of square plan rests where a monolithic square base and is a monolithic cylindrical shaft with a collar. The board is square-framed and above it are four small columns of a square base and pyramidal finial.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Infias

Pelourinho is one of Infias Manueline construction of triangular cone, composed of three octagonal steps, also an octagonal shaft with iron ring and at the top, a prismatic body with heraldic elements.