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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Visit Cernache Mother Church

The Maternal Church of Cernache is Renaissance and Baroque founded in the thirteenth century and rebuilt in the sixteenth century, taking advantage of the previous sacristy and chancel. The bell tower was built only in the 19th century. It has a longitudinal plan with a single nave, a chancel and a bell tower and sacristy adossadas.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Ceira (Coimbra)

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, located in the Parish of Ceira, is a revivalist church with a longitudinal plan, consisting of a single nave and a chancel, with a low vaulted roof in the nave and a cradle vault in the chapel. mor. It was built in the late 19th century on the site of an earlier temple. Inside, highlight the sacristy and two tombstones.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Health - Ceira (Coimbra)

The chapel of Our Lady of Health, located in the parish of Ceira, is a chapel of simple construction. The image of the patron saint is highly revered by the inhabitants of the place.

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Visit the Parish Church of Brasfemes

The Parish Church of Brasfemes was rebuilt in the mid-eighteenth century. The tower and small readjusted things like a simple toilet, dating from 1677, are preserved from a brotherhood's vestry. The tower is isolated from the back of the headboard. Square, domed roof, from the 17th century, with minor renovations in the 18th century. The façade features eighteenth-century, harmonious lines, piled wedges, dominated by lightweight ballot boxes, and cut gables at the base. The door has curved lintel, molded jambs and the headboard has curved lugs. The oculus is quadrilobated and rich in composition, arranged in a complete myxean cornice frame. Its interior is simple, with a high choir, based on a broken stone arch. The main and collateral altarpieces are of the current type of the second half of the 18th century. In the main there is a small throne, formerly covered by a screen representing the Baptism of Christ, which is today in the nave of the church.

Friday, December 6, 2019

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Conception - Assafarge

The Church of Our Lady of Conception, located in the Parish of Assafarge, is a baroque longitudinal plan consisting of a nave, a narrower chancel, confronting side chapels, a front sacristy, an annex and a tower adossados. It was probably built in the 16th century and later renovated in the second half of the 18th century. Highlight for the 16th century font and the 18th century bell tower.

Monday, December 2, 2019

Visit the Parish Church of Antuzede

The Parish Church of Antuzede, located in the parish of Antuzede, was renovated in the 18th century, following the popular baroque style.
It has a large façade with a centralized door and a high curved choir window. Two flares flank her with a two-opening bell tower, showing the twin double bell tower on her left.
Internally the church is spacious, with a single nave and a high choir. The popular style altarpieces are from the 18th century. The main one has, in the center, a painting of Christ speaking to the children.
On the main altar are two late seventeenth-century wooden images of St. Augustine on the left and St. Theotonius on the right, both in golden corbels.
On the side wall, in a niche on the right, is a life-size image of the 17th-century Renaissance-style Lady of Health, as well as the baptismal font and the hemispheric sinks of the same century.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Joy - Antanhol

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Alegria, located in the parish of Antanhol, is significantly altered during the twentieth century, with the replacement of the belfry by a tower. It consists of a nave, a narrow chancel, a sacristy, side chapels and a bell tower. Outside there is a lintel of the sacristy door and inside arches of the side chapels and side altarpieces.

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Visit the Church of St. Just - Ameal

The Church of St. Justo, located in the parish of Ameal, is a 16th-century longitudinal plan, consisting of a single nave, a lower and narrow chancel, two side chapels, a sacristy, an annex and a bell tower. Highlights include the Manueline arch of the main portal, the side chapel ceilings and the gilded altarpiece.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Visit the Chapel of the Coimbra Military Hospital - Almedina (Coimbra)


Visit the Almalaguês Mother Church

The Almalaguês Mother Church is a 16th and 18th century Baroque building, restored in the 20th century.
In the nave there are two chapels, the Sacrament, with three sections and decorated with coffins, and the one of the baptistery. Of note is the remarkable sculptural, eighteenth-century sacred way and, in the baptismal chapel, the Crucified Christ in wood, of baroque nature.

Monday, November 18, 2019

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.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Visit the Mother Church of Tinalhas

The Romanesque style Mother Church of Tinalhas dates from 1576 and is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, patron saint of the parish.

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Visit the Chapel of Espírito Santo - Tinalhas

The Chapel of the Holy Spirit, located in the parish of Tinalhas, is presumed to have been erected in the 16th century, is of Romanesque style, and was restored in 1882. It has now been adapted for the Mortuary Chapel.

Visit the Chapel of St. Peter - Tinalhas

St. Peter's Chapel, located in the parish of Tinalhas, has a Romanesque style and was built in the 17th century.