In the thermal springs of Chaves, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major, spring water composition only in Iberia (hyper - 73 C -, bicarbonate, sodium, and mesomineralizadas gasocarbónicas). The story goes that at the time of Roman rule, the legions, after their warlike incursions, luxuriating in the boiling waters of the city of Aquae Flaviae, restoring forces, treating the various ailments that struck.
The warm waters of Chaves have long-standing tradition in the healing of musculo-skeletal, digestive and respiratory system and take advantage of these medicinal properties for the prevention and cure of contemporary conditions (stress, fatigue, anxiety)
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.
The Museum of Flaviense Region, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys), is part of a monumental complex of the most emblematic that make up the historic city of Chaves - the Palace of the Duke of Braganza. This museum shows how the permanent exhibition: Metallurgy pre-Roman statues Bronze age, etc.
The Castle Garden, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Chaves) around the Castle Keys, has exposed several archaeological findings belonging to the Museum Flaviense. These findings testify to the history of the castle and the city of Chaves.
The Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, located in the parish of the same name is a medieval church, late-Mannerist and Baroque, composed of longitudinal plan with three naves and five legs. It was built in the Middle Ages, probably in the twelfth century, on ruins of earlier temples. The medieval building, retains the bell tower, the porch and some sculptures. Inside, there is the Chapel of the Blessed, addorsed the chapel.
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.
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.
Fort San Francisco de Chaves, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys). Along with the Fort of São Neutel, this fort was intended to defend the city on the border of Galicia, at the time of the War of Restoration.
The strong features simple plan in the form of stars, with four bastions at the corners, the Vauban system. The walls, with a thickness of one meter, range from four to twenty feet tall and are covered in granite.
The main access is through a gate on the south side by a drawbridge over the moat, now grounded. There are connections from the east side and the west side, all driving through tunnels, to the Plaza de Armas.
Among the buildings inside the fort stands the ancient chapel of St. Francis, which housed three centuries, until 1942, the tomb of King Afonso, first Duke of Braganza, restored and preserved.
The Estadio Municipal de Chaves, property of the Municipality of Chaves, is situated in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys). It is the official stadium of football team kits of Grupo Desportivo de Chaves. The initial construction of the stadium dates back to the late 20th, having passed its official opening in 1930.
The Lord of Calvary Chapel, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys), was built on top of a hill, in 1672 and is the terminus of a sacred path that was begun in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
In the thermal springs of Chaves, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major, spring water composition only in Iberia (hyper - 73 C -, bicarbonate, sodium, and mesomineralizadas gasocarbónicas). The story goes that at the time of Roman rule, the legions, after their warlike incursions, luxuriating in the boiling waters of the city of Aquae Flaviae, restoring forces, treating the various ailments that struck.
