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Showing posts with label Beja. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Remedies - Trindade


Visit the Fountain of the Lady of Loredo


Visit the Chapel of Senhora da Luz - Senhora do Louredo


Visit the Municipal Pools of Beja - São João Baptista (Beja)


Visit the Beja Gymnasium Pavilion - São João Baptista (Beja)


Visit the Camping of Beja - São João Baptista (Beja)

The Beja Camping Park, located in the Parish of São João Baptista (Beja), presents excellent conditions to provide you with pleasant moments in contact with nature. In the summer months, despite the high temperatures, the shadows may help the camper to make your stay enjoyable.

Visit the Statue of the Bandeirante António Raposo Tavares - São João Baptista (Beja)


Visit the Fountain and Well of Aljustrel - São João Baptista (Beja)


Visit the Fernando Mamede Football Field - São João Baptista (Beja)


Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Visit the Beja Air Base - São Brissos

The Beja Air Base, located in the Parish of São Brissos, is an air base of the Portuguese Air Force, located a few kilometers from the city of Beja. The base was activated in 1967, housing, almost from the outset, units of instruction of the German Air Force, stationed there under a bilateral agreement between Portugal and Germany. The occupied area of this Air Base makes it the largest air base in Europe and one of the largest in the world.

Visiting Beja Airport - São Brissos

The Beja Airport located next to the Air Base nº 11 to 12 km in the parish of São Brissos had its inaugural flight happened on April 13, 2011. It does not currently have regular flights.

Visit the Urban Park of the Neighborhoods Social Beja II - Santiago Maior (Beja)


Visit the Beja Picnic Park - Santiago Maior (Beja)

The Beja Merenda Park, located in the parish of Santiago Maior, is associated with the maintenance circuit with an area of approximately 7 ha. Make the connection to the City Park.
The Mata belongs to the urban ecological structure and is connected and contiguous to other important open spaces. This continuity constitutes a predominantly permeable "green waist", with equipment directed to the sports and recreational activities in the open air.

Monday, May 28, 2018

Visit the Botanical Museum of Beja - Santiago Maior (Beja)

The Botanical Museum of Beja, located in the parish of Santiago Maior (Beja), installed in the Beja Higher Agricultural School, is a center of scientific culture, having as main objectives the conservation, study and dissemination of objects and knowledge from collections and studies of economic and ethnobotanical botany. The Museum presents temporary exhibitions that illustrate the relationship between man and plants.

Visit the Memorial to Al-Mutamid - Santiago Maior (Beja)


Visit the Hermitage of Santo André - Santiago Maior (Beja)

The Santo André Hermitage, located in the parish of Santiago Maior (Beja), is part of the Gothic-Mudejar constructive tradition. The temple was built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. It is a type of construction that finds some parallels in the Alentejo region. This Hermitage is classified as National Monument.

Visiting Albufeira do Roxo - Santa Vitória

The Roxo dam, which covers the Municipality of Aljustrel and the Municipality of Beja in the parish of Santa Vitória, has a floodable surface at the full storage height of 1378 ha.

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Visit the Cathedral of Beja - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)

The Cathedral of Beja, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was built in 1590. The primitive structure of the complex, in three naves, corresponds to the model of the church-hall, much publicized in the Mannerist architecture of the Baixo Alentejo from the mid-16th century. The retables of the side chapels are from the Mannerist period. The altarpieces from the chancel date from the Baroque period.

Visit the Bullring of Beja - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)

The Bullring in Beja was built on the initiative of the beja farmer Rafael António Madeira. The inaugural race was held on August 9, 1909.
Between 1936 and 1938 the bullring of Beja was closed due to poor conservation status. Reopened on August 10, 193
José Varela Crujo was named in 1988 in honor of the bejense rider that died that year, after being harvested in Campo Pequeno.

Visit the Doors of Avis - Santa Maria da Feira (Beja)

The arch of Portas de Avis, located in the parish of Santa Maria da Feira (Beja), was demolished in 1893. Subsequently, the granite blocks that constituted it were discovered in its new function (fish market tables of Santa Maria Market), which allowed for its reconstitution in 1939.