Visiting the Convent of São Jorge de Milreus - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

The Convent of São Jorge de Milreus, located in the parish of Castelo Viegas, was founded in 1080.
By the mid-twelfth century, the Convent would have attained great prosperity, as appears to be apparent from the great donation that Salvador Viegas made to the cenobium in 1159 of a remarkable array of goods in the immediate vicinity.
What can be seen today in São Jorge de Milreus is the product of a major remodeling campaign carried out from 1526. This monumental Mannerist campaign was one of many Jesuits throughout the country, entering in the institution's government precisely in this 16th century. For the next two centuries, the convent was the subject of numerous partial artistic campaigns, notably the tiled coverings of the church and the chapter room, dating from the first half of the 18th century, and the joanine painting campaign by André Gonçalves for the chapel. love the church.
From 1834, with the passage to the possession of private, Milreus saw his artistic heritage successively alienated, although his space has always had occupation.

Visit the Antanhol Tile Panel

Visit the Coimbra Major Seminary Building - Almedina (Coimbra)

The Coimbra Major Seminary Building, located in the Parish of Almedina, is a sui generis building given its Italian architecture and featuring several spaces that are worth a close visit.
Noteworthy is the Sagrada Familia church, with its dome, considered one of the most beautiful in the country; the reliquary chapel of S. Miguel; the Old Library, with more than 9,000 books from 1507 to 1800; the episcopal chambers; the tile room; and the Mondego Balcony, which has a magnificent view over the city. Noteworthy is a woodcut by Monsignor Nunes Pereira, a canvas by the famous painter Grão Vasco and the 18th century pipe organ, built in 1762 by João Fontana de Maquera, which falls under the category of “Iberian organs” and which has 1500 tubes.

Visit the College of Our Lady of Carmo - Almedina (Coimbra)

The College of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, located in the Parish of Almedina, was built in 1541, for the residence of clerics of the diocese of Porto who wished to attend the University. In 1547, it was donated to the Order of Carmelite Footwear and became extinct under the Law of 1834, and passed to the Venerable Third Order of San Francisco, where it is today installed. Although it has undergone several changes, the old college complex retains original tile panels as well as some paintings

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Joy - Almalaguês

The Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Alegria, located in the Parish of Almalaguês, has a longitudinal plan, consisting of a nave, a chancel and a sacristy attached to the left side. It was built in 1634, featuring features of mannerist and baroque architecture. Inside, highlight to some eighteenth century tiles that line the walls of the chancel, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary.

Visit the Fountain Fountain

The Fountain of Tinalhas or New Fountain, has a pump and a tank spout dating from 1924. Built in granite with a tile coating, carved two crosses of Christ, symbol of Christianity and a manor castle, topped by a crown. Receiving water from the fountain there is a tank where animals drink.

Visit the Castelo Branco City Hall Building

The Castelo Branco Town Hall Building is the Old Manor of the Viscounts of Oleiros, an eighteenth-century building of Italian taste and located in the Parish of Castelo Branco.
The main façade has central staircase with two converging flights and wrought iron guard of vertical bars. Inside there are two floors with functional differentiation. The access to the noble floor is made through an external staircase. It has a main atrium with four symmetrical doors whose frame presents curvilinear cuts; It integrates lambril of polychrome tiles that represent scenes of hunting and fishing.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy - Castelo Branco

The Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade, belonging to the Order of Christ and located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, was built in the 16th century under the original invocation of St. Gregory.
Of longitudinal plant, the chapel presents / displays a facade of two registers; the first has a perfect round arch portal flanked by a hollowed-out frame and topped by a frame that frames five scallops in relief. At the center of the second register was ripped a straight frame window. Each of the buttresses of the building is crowned by a belfry. The building is finished in gable with a stone cross.
The interior of the church is composed of a single nave, with walls covered by panels of ornate tiles depicting the Adoration of the Magi, the Last Supper, the Mysteries of the Virgin, images of the Apostles and of St. Francis and St. Anthony. Making the separation between the nave and the main chapel, a triumphal arch in gilded and polychrome carving, bearing the center date of 1617. The body of the sacristy is identical to that of the church, giving access to the belfry.

Visit the station Railways of Aveiro - Vera Cruz (Aveiro)

The railway station of Aveiro, located in the town of Vera Cruz (Aveiro), has a façade completely decorated polychrome tiles in blue and yellow tones, representing several railway, natural and traditional activities and culture scenes. The building consists of three sections, a central part, three floors, that includes three large doors at ground level and two symmetrical sides, with two floors, having a gate and two shutters of rectangular section. This station is assumed as a good example, at regional level, the style called Casa Portuguesa.
The works via the station began, respectively, in August 1861 and in early 1862, having taken place on the opening day April 10, 1864

Visit Panel Tiles Guardian Angel - Vera Cruz (Aveiro)

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy and St. Blaise - St Joan ( Aveiro )

The chapel of San Blas , located in the parish of St Joan ( Aveiro ) , also known as Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy and St. Blaise , is dated to the middle or end of the seventeenth century, according inaccurate and sparse references . Underwent extensive renovations in the 60 , XX century, which included the construction of the second bell tower , which stands on the left.Split inside with tiles in shades of blue, these are glimpsed only outwardly , the main façade . The side and rear walls are white-washed . The yellow-brown color delineates each outer edge of the building , giving relief to the straight line shape , and the geometric contours of the windows and exterior doors . At the top , one of the two bell towers that rise on either side of the main entrance , the bells are ready to spread the festive sound community .Inside the chapel, an arc mimicking an angular warhead Romanesque -Gothic separates the chancel of the meeting. Whoever enters through the front door , your eyes immediately fall on a crucifix which occupies the central part of the wall , accompanied by an image of the Sacred Heart of Mary .The stone altar, formed in rectangular complements this sacred space .In the main body of the temple , two side niches hosting the pictures São Brás and Our Lady of Mercy , the two saints who , on different dates , the first on the 3rd of February or the first Sunday of the month , and the second about two weeks after Easter, to call themselves devotees .

Visit the Church of Oliveirinha (Aveiro)

Visit the Fountain of Senhora da Guia - Oliveirinha (Aveiro)

The Fountain of Senhora da Guia, located in the Town of Oliveirinha (Aveiro), from the chapel of the same name is a source to which thousands of people, the region and the city, will at present fetching water for their quality.

Visit the Parque Dom Pedro Infante - Glory (Aveiro)

Infante Dom Pedro Park, located in the Town of Glory (Aveiro), started functioning from 1862 from the area that belonged to the Convent of St. Anthony.
Through the use of the river crossing created a series of lakes and fountains punctuate the surrounding green area. Focus on the avenue of lime trees, the gazebo iron, tiles and panels at the corners of romantic bridges and trees.

Visit the Panel Tiles - Glory (Aveiro)

Visit the Museum of Santa Joana Princesa - Glory (Aveiro)

The Museum of Santa Joana Princesa, located in the Town of Glory (Aveiro), occupies the premises of the Convent of Jesus, which was built in the century. XV.
The facade of the current century date. Eighteenth and enroll her three portals with beautiful gables, seeing the royal coat of arms in the middle. The building retains some living spaces that served the convent: the lobby, where the ordinance worked, the cloister of the century. XV, which retains a Renaissance colonnade, some chapels decorated with azulejos and Manueline the chapter house.
The Museum was founded in 1911 to house works of art gathered in homes and religious communities in the region and across the country, including Lisbon, dissolved or ended with the extinction of religious orders, including those originating in the convent of Jesus.
It has remarkable collections of paintings, sculpture, carvings, tiles, jewelery, furniture and vestments.
Collections of painting deserves a portrait of the Infanta's Saint Joan, attributed to Nuno Gonçalves School.
Magnificent altar frontals gold embroidery, very valuable collections of vestments and jewelery, rare manuscripts of secs. XV and XVI (including the foundation of the convent and life of Saint Joan), the Museum of Aveiro make a mandatory stop.

Visit the Tile Panel from Arad (Aveiro)

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Guidance - We have

The Chapel of Our Lady of Guia, located in the Town of Paramos, was built in the late seventeenth century, was later rebuilt in 1897. In front of the chapel is a stone tile that reads: "Non Ms. Guia - We stopped" and below are the images, also in tile, of Our Lady of Guia and St. Andrew.

Visit the Church of Saint Martin - Anta

The Church of St. Martin, located in the Town of Anta, has tile in front of the church where we can see the two tiled images, an early patron of São Mamede and another of Saint Martin Patron today.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Snows - Great Northern

The Church of Our Lady of the Snows parish located in the Norte Grande was built in 1762 on the ruins of a church before.
This church presents itself endowed with a single body, also with only a chancel tiled. The carving of the chancel is painted blue and gold. In the side chapels are images of Our Lord and Our Lady of Fatima.