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Showing posts with label Tras-os-Montes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tras-os-Montes. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Visit the Shrine of the Upper Cervical - Vidago
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
Shrines,
Tras-os-Montes,
Vidago,
Vila Real District
Monday, August 22, 2011
Visit Penedo Outeiro Machado - Soutelo (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
rock carvings,
Rocks,
Soutelo (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Friday, August 19, 2011
Visit the Harvest the Old Alminhas
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
Seara Velha,
Shrines,
Tras-os-Montes,
Vila Real District
Visit the Source of São Vicente (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
Fontes,
São Vicente (Chaves),
Tras-os-Montes
Visit the Church of Saint Stephen (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
Churches,
District of Vila Real,
St. Stephen (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Visit the Castle of Saint Stephen (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
St Stephen (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Visit the Chapel of St. Stephen (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
St Stephen (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
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.
Etiquetas:
Castles,
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
National Monument,
St. Mary Major (Keys),
towers,
Tras-os-Montes
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)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
Santa Maria Maggiore (Keys),
Spa,
Tras-os-Montes
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.
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
National Monument,
ridges,
St. Mary Major (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
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)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
Museums,
Palaces,
Santa Maria Maggiore (Keys),
Statues,
Tras-os-Montes
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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.
Etiquetas:
Bridges,
Chapels,
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
forts and fortresses,
Santa Maria Maggiore (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Friday, August 12, 2011
Visit Lord of Calvary Chapel - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Chaves,
Churches,
District of Vila Real,
Sacred Way,
Santa Maria Maggiore (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Visit the Church of Carregal - Santa Leocadia (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
Churches,
District of Vila Real,
Santa Leocadia (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Visit the Church of Santa Leocadia (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
Churches,
District of Vila Real,
Santa Leocadia (Keys),
Tras-os-Montes
Visit the Alminhas Matosinhos - Santa Leocadia (Chaves)
Etiquetas:
Chaves,
District of Vila Real,
Santa Leocadia (Keys),
Shrines,
Tras-os-Montes
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