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Showing posts with label Port District. Show all posts

Monday, June 6, 2011

Visit the beach of Boca Mar - São Felix da Marinha

Ocean Beach is a beach Boca peripheral, located in the Parish of St. Felix da Marinha, popular and much sought by sportsmen and fishermen.

Visit Praia da Granja - São Felix da Marinha

Praia da Granja, located in the Parish of St. Felix of the Navy, has a unique beauty that is mirrored in its waters and rocky area that appears at low tide. The dune area is protected by a wooden walkway that extends for eight miles, where you can drive all the beaches in Vila Nova de Gaia.

Visit the Church of Sao Felix da Marinha

The Church of Sao Felix da Marinha is characterized by a high staircase. We emphasize the facade decorated with bright and decorative, and inside, a medieval sculpture.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Visit the Chapel of Our Lord D 'Beyond - Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Chapel of Mr. D'Beyond, located in the Town of Santa Marinha near the foot of the escarpment of the Serra do Pilar, was built in 1877r.
This chapel is worth visiting the large gilded ornaments on the altar and the "Miraculous Image. "

Visit the Chapel of the Good Jesus - Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Chapel of the Good Jesus, located in the Town of Santa Marinha, has very ancient foundations of the Middle Ages, and it has undergone great changes and extensions over time will have been the episcopal seat of the Swabians, prior to the Port. For many years held a procession of the people of Puerto headed by the Cathedral, in celebration of that fact.
Inside the chapel there is a statue of Santa Liberata, a second century martyr, whose legend is concerned with Gaia.

Visit the Cascade Sandim

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Visit the Park of St. Bartholomew - Pedroso

Visit the Monastery of Pedroso

Pedroso's Monastery is a Benedictine monastery and the main monument in the parish of Pedroso.
The monastery was donated by Don and Gondezinho established between the tenth or eleventh century.
The monastery received in her bosom as comandatários abbot, Father Peter Julian, and was later appointed Pope John XXI.

Visit the Fountain of Pedroso

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Visit the Chapel of St. Bartolumeu - Pedroso

Visit the River Beach Areinho - Oliveira do Douro (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Areinho River Beach, located in the Town of Oliveira do Douro, is of considerable size and much sought after by fishermen and vacationers who choose this beautiful river area on the banks of the River Douro.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Visit the Chapel of St. Palo - Canidelo (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Chapel of St. Palo, located in the Town of Canidelo, has the image of the patron, the images of Our Lady of Fatima, S. Joseph, the Infant Jesus, St. Elizabeth, which are recent and terracotta.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Visit River Beach Areinho - Avintes

The Areinho River Beach, located in the Town of Avintes has a very considerable stretch of beach.

Visit the nature park of Vila Nova de Gaia - Avintes

The nature park of Vila Nova de Gaia, located in the Town of Avintes is an area of agro-forestry county, with 35 acres where they live in the wild hundreds of species of animals and plants.
The park is also a small nature reserve of fauna and flora, more than 40 species of wild birds nesting in the Park and many others visit it during the migration, from which we can highlight the Pope-flies and herons. Since the main species of mammals are the fox, weasel and genets.
The amphibians of the Park have few endemics of the Iberian Peninsula, as the salamander-Lusitanian, the Iberian frog, the newt-de-orange belly, among others.
Among reptiles the focus is on the lizard-in-water, also endemic.
At the River fever, which spans the 35-hectare nature park, also has two endemic species of fish: roach and boga-the-north.
Also part of the park facilities for recovery of wild animals found injured or held illegally in captivity, and a nursery that annually produces thousands of plants.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Visit the Monument to the Athlete - Avintes

The Monument to the Athlete, located in the Town of Avintes, is the sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva, and was opened in 1973 in celebration of the golden anniversary of the Football Club Avintes.

Visit the Monument to Padeira - Avintes

The Monument to Padeira Avintes, bronze sculpture based on a built in carved granite, was designed by the sculptor Henry Moreno. This is a piece in bronze, life size, which opened in 1974.

Visit the Garden Valentine - Avintes