Visit the Ribeira Grande - Frontier

Visiting the Bridge River Beach - Frontier

The Bridge River Beach, located in the Parish Boundary, near the Roman bridge over the Ribeira big, it's a nice beach and clean, tailored to the practice of various sporting activities such as canoeing, swimming, abseiling, orienteering, climbing, mountain biking and horseback riding or seagull.

Visit the Ponte Romana da Ribeira Grande - Frontier

Ponte Romana da Ribeira Grande, located in Frontier Town, is ten round arches, granite construction. Its origin, though no historical evidence, will be from the early Roman era.

Visit Pelourinho Border

Border Pelourinho was built in the sixteenth century and retired in 1865, was rebuilt later in 1930 looking to maintain part of the original design. The revivalist architecture introduced him, however, new elements like the ring of the stem.

Visit the Church of the Valley Silk - Frontier

Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia - Frontier

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia, was built by King Sebastian in the sixteenth century and was finalized in 1559, but for several centuries was getting successive amendments. The main facade, there are the two square towers, while the interior has three naves with round arches and has a high altar made ​​entirely of marble. The rest are in baroque altars.

Visit the Statue of Our Lady of the Old Town - Frontier

Visit the Railway Station Border

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Soul - Frontier

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows - Frontier

Visit the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Vila Velha - Frontier

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Old Town, located in the parish of Frontier, introduced
interior of nave with barrel vault and chorus on the porch. The whole body of the chapel is decorated with. The ceiling of the chapel is all painted, the panels being divided by stripe showing couplets. The original chapel was founded around 1226 and has been refurbished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Visit the Clock Tower - Vide

The Clock Tower, located in the Town of Vide, was not built to watch, though in the century. XVI has passed to have this function.
It has a square frame with masonry corners of granite, four eyelets and a bell. Its dome has a quadrangular pyramid with twelve small pyramids of the same design, on the landing. The old clock faces southeast and southwest again. The primitive face of the clock is dated 1570.

Visit the Roman Baths of Vide

Visit the spa Sulfur - Vide

The Baths of sulphurous, located in the Town of Vide, stay in the valley of the Ribeira da Vide, about 1 km to the southeast of the village. The whole building has three floors which, in addition to the treatment areas include the reception areas for the guests, treatments, indoor swimming pools, cooling zones, gym as well as traces of old thermal area. These waters are indicated for diseases of a osteo-articular (arthritis), respiratory (asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, rhinitis) and skin.

Visit the Pelourinho Vide

The Pillory Vide is situated opposite the Town Hall, is made ​​of granite and is based on a square platform with three steps on which rests the octagonal shaft. Its conical helm flanged bearing the Cross of Avis on the opposite side of the royal arms.
Pelourinho had four anchors drilled into the top of the column where the "criminals" were hung from a rope placed under the arms, and sometimes were tied to the column. It was one of those positions that were exposed to popular derision and physical punishment, which varied according to the seriousness of the offense or the customs of the time.
The pillory is classified as a national monument.

Visit the Walls of Fortress - Vide

The Walls of Fortress Vide has two thousand five hundred square meters, has an unkempt oval fort, inside which could house fighters and residents of a small town. Inside, the floor is lined with underground galleries that connect the old houses afidalgadas Avis Street and the area of the spout.

Visit the Church of the Holy Spirit - Vide

The Church of the Holy Spirit, located in the Town of Vide is the heyday of the Village, more specifically the beginning of the century. XVI. The main entrance, the side altar and the grave of Brás Gonçalves Figueiró are marble.
The roof is hidden by a parapet wall with battlements guarded paralelepipedic truncated, the steeple is classic, with a bell-century. XVI, another century. Seventeenth and ring a bell in noteworthy.
The aisle was added to enlarge the space of the church.

Visit Station Railways Vide

Station Vide is a building with graceful lines, pleasing in its path in its granite worked in the eaves and talon and beautiful panels of polychrome tiles, painted by L Batistini in 1933.
The motives of the exterior panels are even suggestive. There are pigs in the meadow, picking olives, costumes and the village field, horse breeding, sheep herding, with threshing wheat beasts, drawing the cork, plowing the land with mules, sowing, harvesting, transportation of wheat for threshing, the Clock Tower at Town Hall and the Pillory.
High on the facade, there is another panel framed with flowers, a coat of Quinas the center.
The station was decommissioned decades ago and recently underwent an intervention of recovery and adaptation transforming it into the present magnificent Queen Cottages Leonor.

Visit Anta da Serra das Penas - Vide

Visit Frontier

Frontier is a Portuguese town in the district of Portalegre, with about 3300 inhabitants.
It is the seat of a municipality with 245.20 km ² and 3,286 inhabitants (2006), limited to the northern town of Alter do Chão, east of Monforte, southeast of Estremoz in the south and west by Sousel by Avis.
The county's charter was granted by King Manuel I in 1512.
The parishes of Frontier are as follows: Vide, Frontier, San Saturnino.

Brief Historical Summary

The human presence is marked in the territories of Frontier for more than 10,000 years.
As for the village, it will have been founded in the reign of D. Dinis, with a record that in 1236 the church or frontal boundary remains at the diocese of Evora. In 1512 D. Manuel I give it a charter.
After centuries in which only joined the parish of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia Border and San Saturnino, throughout the nineteenth century the county Frontier had multiple changes, incorporated parishes of municipalities of Estremoz, Monforte and Sousel, with significant successive changes and also included the extinction of the county itself Frontier (1867), incorporated in Alter do Chão, but soon restored (1868).
In 1855 the counties were abolished and Sousel Veiros of attaching their parishes to Frontier, which thus came to understand, in addition to the parish of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia and St Saturninus, the parishes of St. Benedict Blonde Ana, Santo Aleixo, San Pedro de Almuro, King Salvador, Santo Amaro, Our Lady of Grace of the White House, Our Lady of Grace Cano, Our Lady of Grace Sousel and St. John's Riverside.
In 1863 the county is restored Sousel. Then in 1869 is detached from the parish of St. Benedict and Anna Blonde in 1871 to St. Alexius in 1872 were detached parishes of St. Peter King and Savior of Almuro, returning Frontier to contain only its early parishes of Our Lady of Atalaia and San Saturnino, plus the Santo Amaro.
Once Frontier has yet to receive the parishes of St. Peter and again Vaiamonte Almuro of that return to be unattached in 1898 to join the municipality of Monforte.
Finally back in the twentieth century, by decree of December 21, 1932, Santo Amaro becomes part of the county and Border Sousel integrates the parish of Nossa Senhora das Candeias, former county Vide dissolved in 1855 and then integrated into Alter do Chão.

What to Visit

In the Town of Vide:
Anta da Serra das Penas
Railway Station
Holy Spirit Church
Church
Walls
Pillory
Sulfur Spa
Roman Baths
Clock Tower

In Border Town:
Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Vila Velha
Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows
Chapel of the Lord of Souls
Railway Station
Statue of Our Lady of the Old Town
Church of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia
Valley Church of Silk
Pillory
Ponte Romana da Ribeira Grande
River Beach
Ribeira Grande
Clock Tower

Where to Eat

In Border Town:
Cafe Restaurant Pole
Cafe Restaurant Three Nozzles
The Riverside Restaurant
Cafe Restaurant Fonte Nova
Central Pension
The Pool Restaurant
Atletico Cafe Restaurant
"Chicken on the Grill"

In the Town of Vide:
The Great Wall Restaurant
Avenue Restaurant
Pedro Cafe Restaurant
Cafe Restaurant Spa Sulfur
Pastor Cafe Restaurant
Restaurant Vasco da Gama

Where to Sleep

In Border Town:
The Residential Cottages
Central Pension
In the Town of Vide:
Hotel Cadenlária
Thursday's Head
House of Chimneys
Solar Simas Cardoso
Cottage Farm Order
Residential sulphurous