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Showing posts with label Tras-os-Montes. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Visit the Shrine of the Upper Cervical - Vidago



Monday, August 22, 2011

Visit Penedo Outeiro Machado - Soutelo (Chaves)

The Penedo Outeiro Machado, located in the Town of Soutelo (Keys), has more than 500 rock engravings.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Visit the Harvest the Old Alminhas



Visit the Source of São Vicente (Chaves)



Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary - San Vicente (Chaves)



Visit the Church of Saint Stephen (Chaves)



Visit the Castle of Saint Stephen (Chaves)

The ancient castle of St. Stephen, located in the parish of St. Stephen (Keys), there remains the donjon ameada solid, square-shaped in granite unit, with two floors, which is classified as a National Monument.

Visit the Chapel of St. Stephen (Chaves)



Visit the dungeon Keys - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

The Watchtower Keys, located in the Parish of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a National Monument. The set is marked by the medieval castle, in a dominant position on the city, including rectangular donjon internally and externally, Vauban-style fortifications abaluartadas.
The medieval castle survived only part of the wall and keep. This presents quadrangular with dimensions of 12 m away for about 28 m high, divided internally on the ground floor (tank) and three floors with barrel-vaulted ceiling. In the granite walls ripping some loopholes, and the east elevation, wooden balconies. Merlons crowned by battlements and, at the corners, small semicircular balconies are supported by boulder. The first floor is accessed via a stone stairway at an angle, with guards, also of stone, and door-round arch, with torada frame, surmounted by a royal coat of arms with nineteen castles.

Visit the Termas de Chaves - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

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)

Visit the Roman bridge of Chaves - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

Ponte Romana de Chaves, with one of its ends located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Chaves) also called, Trajan's Bridge was built between the end of the century and the beginning of the second century AD In addition to the development of the baths is a of the best legacies of the ancient Roman Aquae Flaviae, which prevails to this day, resisting the historical floods, and strong river currents Tâmega. With about hundred and fifty feet long and a dozen arches visible. This bridge is classified as a National Monument.

Visit the Pelourinho Chaves - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

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.

Visit the Museum of Flaviense Region - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

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.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Visit the Fort San Francisco - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

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.

Visit the Roman Columns Chaves - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)



Friday, August 12, 2011

Visit Lord of Calvary Chapel - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

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.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011