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Showing posts with label São Victor (Braga). Show all posts

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Visit the Monument of the Seven Fountains - São Victor (Braga)

The Seven Fountains, located in the Parish of St. Victor, with its immense stone-clad ducts, where two people can pass simultaneously, with their subterranean pipes, some in depth and others near the surface, with mines and wells, with the six "houses" - once numbered seven - in which they join, treat and decant the waters are an important monument.
For hundreds of years the Seven Fountains were the city's main water supply point.

Visit the Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - São Victor (Braga)

The Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, located in the parish of St. Victor, boasts a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to commemorate the solemn consecration of the city and archdiocese of Braque to the Divine Heart of Christ held on May 16, 1886.

Visit the Lady's Garden to White - São Victor (Braga)


Visit the Church of São Victor (Braga)

The Church of St. Victor occupies a prominent place among the multiple monuments of religious architecture existing in Braga, is the largest and most imposing of the parish churches of the city.
This church was built on top of a small artificially altered elevation
There is this church in the chancel of the Blessed Sacrament and the image of St. Victor, with its confraternities; on the part of the Gospel is the altar of the Child God, with his brotherhood; Then, in another arch, the altar of Saint Anthony, with a rich confraternity, follows; on the part of the Epistle the altar of St. Susanna, martyr, Bracaran, with his confraternity, below the altar of St. Sebastian, with his brotherhood. There is more the devotion of the Souls with a picture in which they are painted, placed in the arch of the chancel.
The Church of St. Victor was classified as Property of Public Interest.

Visit the Church of Senhora-a-Branca - São Victor (Braga)

The Lady-a-white Church, located in the Parish of St. Victor, dates back to the 14th century. But none of this remains, the earliest part was now made between 1505 and 1532. These years are the main door (marked by its small stone arms) and the architecture of the lower part of the choir, sparse remnants of an intervention that stretched out to the whole temple.
At the beginning of the last quarter of the seventeenth century the church received several changes.
The present altar is, in itself, a good reflection of the successive changes of taste of the men who governed the church during the second half of the century. XVIII.
The result of these new works can only today be evaluated by the tabernacle, the only remaining piece. It is that in 1783 the retable received important alterations that gave him the neo-classic air that now presents.
Also in 1783 were built two new collateral altarpieces, with their blue and white painting; fortunately that care has been taken to preserve the old and beautiful cribs that are seen in the altarpieces that are first on each side of the nave.

Visit the Cruzeiro de Infias - São Victor (Braga)


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 Casa de Infias - São Victor (Braga)

The Casa de Infias was built in the last quarter of the 17th century by João Borges Pereira Pacheco, a nobleman of the Royal House and Knight of the Order of Christ.
The plan of the house is closed by the arrangement of the noble gate, which, through the wall where it is inserted, joins the lateral wings, thus becoming the building inserted in a large rectangle that has a courtyard to the center. As usual at the time, the floors of the house were divided according to their specific functions. The ground floor housed the rooms for the services of the house, the noble floor housed the living space.
The chapel, located in one of the side wings, was integrated to the whole of the house in a harmonious way, not disturbing the symmetry of the building. The chapel is invoking Our Lady of Pilar.
It has been classified as Property of Public Interest since 1977.

Visit to Capel de São Victor-o-Velho - São Victor (Braga)

The Chapel of Saint Victor-o-Velho, or Saint Vitouro, located in the Parish of St. Victor in the place where, probably, the martyr St. Victor was beheaded. This is the most likely reason for this place to have been known in the Modern Age by the designation of Goladas.

Visit the Chapel of Santa Tecla - São Victor (Braga)

The chapel of Santa Tecla, located in the parish of São Victor, is a small, simple and beautiful chapel, surmounted by a cross - where it originally had an image of St. John the Baptist - and with a beautiful time darkened, placed on a horse that serves as a peanha, as was customary in other temples of the city.

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe - São Victor (Braga)

The Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located in the parish of St. Victor, on the hill of Santa Margarida, was a temple of invocation to St. Margaret, but at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it was completely replaced by another, ordered by the brotherhood of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1719. What most distinguishes the chapel of Guadalupe, in addition to its privileged location, which stands at the top of a small elevation is its unusual architecture. Despite the centralized plant, like many other churches in Braga, its circular shape is unique in the city. This building denotes mastery both in the curvilinear forms of its exterior, as in the simplicity of the interior and in the execution of the main altarpiece designed in rococo style. The chapel of Guadalupe presents a centered plan, with main chapel and two lateral ones.