Visit the River Ul - São João da Madeira

The Ul river is a tributary of the Antuã river. It is born in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, it crosses the County of São João da Madeira and the county of Oliveira de Azeméis, where it empties in the Antuã.

Visit the Quinta da Natividade - São João da Madeira

Visit the Roman Bridge of São João da Madeira

Visit the Municipal Pools of São João da Madeira

The Municipal Swimming Pools of São João da Madeira are an outdoor leisure space with a 50 meter pool, a jumping pool and a children's pool. There is also a children's playground, extensive wooded lawn and a bar.

Visit the Urban Park of the River Ul - São João da Madeira

The Urban Park of the River Ul, located in S. João da Madeira, was designed by the architect Sidónio Pardal, and has a total area equivalent to almost 30 football fields, the Urban Park of the Rio Ul is outlined by granite walls. From the inside you can see paths that invite walking or cycling.

Visitors to the Urban Park of the Rio Ul also have at their disposal the House of Nature where there is a bar and a reception room / environmental interpretation center, as well as a space of bathhouses.

Visit the Ferreira de Castro Park - São João da Madeira

The Ferreira de Castro Park, located in São João da Madeira, is a pleasant green space, suitable for leisure and recreational activities for all ages.

It has maintenance circuit, mini golf, playground, playground, gerontological park (playground for the elderly) and picnic area.

Also note the cozy bar "A Selva", thus baptized in reference to the work of Ferreira de Castro, writer who gives name to the park, where there is a monument in his honor.

Visit the Park of Our Lady of Miracles - São João da Madeira

The Nossa Senhora dos Milagres Park, located in São João da Madeira, is a large green space, which was inaugurated on November 6, 1938, which makes this park the oldest in this city.

This urban park also has a maintenance circuit, cycle paths for cyclists, a café, a children's playground and a snack area.

It is one of the most popular urban parks in the city, with several cascading gardens and a symbolic bridge.

Visit the Palace of the King of Flour - São João da Madeira

The Palace of the King of Farinha, located in São João da Madeira is one of the beautiful examples of the so-called "Casas de Brasileiros".

It is a remarkable building, in which there is a risk of an architect. On the flank, the turret seems to dominate the whole, illusion created by the garden that covers the balcony that flows around the right side of the house. The staircase, scenographic, has agglutinating effect, given its importance in the articulation of the beautiful garden with the small palace.

Visit the Conde Dias Garcia Mansion - São João da Madeira

The Palacete Conde Dias Garcia, located in São João da Madeira, is a municipal patrimony.

Visiting Oliva Creative Factory - São João da Madeira

Oliva Creative Factory, located in São João da Madeira, is an essentially entrepreneurial project but it has important components in artistic training as well as cultural and leisure activities.

Installed inside Oliva, one of the largest and most innovative factories in Portuguese industrial history, Oliva Creative Factory's motto is to turn creativity and talent into business.

There is at Oliva Creative Factory a large wing dedicated to contemporary art, which has a permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions, a dance school, spaces for artistic training and events.

Visit the Black Nails Monument - São João da Madeira

The "Unhas Negras" Monument, located in São João da Madeira, is a symbol of the Headgear Industry and a fair tribute to the "poor hatters." The name "Unhas Negras", the title of the novel by João da Silva Correia, who worked on the fulas and kept their nails tinted black. The nickname came to be generalized and was, for a long time, used to designate the inhabitants of S. João da Madeira.

Visit the Monument of Homage to the Shoemaker - São João da Madeira

The Monument to Sapateiro, located in São João da Madeira, is by the sculptor Baltazar Oliveira.

Visit the Water Mill - São João da Madeira

Visit the Lake of Rotunda - São João da Madeira

Visit the Municipal Garden of São João da Madeira

The Mother Church of St. John of Madeira was built in 1884 and is imposed by the sobriety of its architectural lines and by the greatness and solidity of the building, invokes St. John the Baptist

Inside there is an enormous wealth both in gilded carving and in iconographic and sculptural motifs.

Next to this church passed the Roman military route of Talóbriga and Lancóbriga.

Visit the Mother Church of São João da Madeira

The Mother Church of St. John of Madeira was built in 1884 and is imposed by the sobriety of its architectural lines and by the greatness and solidity of the building, invokes St. John the Baptist

Inside there is an enormous wealth both in gilded carving and in iconographic and sculptural motifs.

Next to this church passed the Roman military route of Talóbriga and Lancóbriga.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Miracles - São João da Madeira

The Church of Our Lady of Miracles, located in São João da Madeira, was inaugurated on November 6, 1938, at a ceremony presided over by the Bishop of Porto. It is located in a green space called Nossa Senhora dos Milagres Park, one of the most appreciated urban parks in the city.

It refers to the Neo-Romanesque period, having on its façade an image of Christ crucified in marble. Inside the temple there is a wooden image of Our Lady of Miracles.

Visit the Fountain and the Lake of the Portas da Cidade - São João da Madeira

Visiting the Statue of Pope John Paul II - Saint John of Madeira

Visit the Building of the Paços da Cultura - São João da Madeira

The old building of the Paços do Cultura of São João da Madeira, was the old building of the Paços do Concelho.

It was inaugurated on May 21, 2005 and has several branches. An auditorium with about 200 seats, a café-concert, an Internet space and an area reserved for outdoor events. It also has exhibitions galleries while in the second there is the Memory Room.

This is where the Historical Archive of the City works where the most relevant documents of the City's history are available to the public