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.

Visit the Loureiro Chapel - Cernache

Visit the Chapel of Vila Pouca - Cernache

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Conception - Cernache

Visit the soccer field of Moita Santa - Cernache

Visit the Ceira River - Ceira (Coimbra)

The Ceira River rises in the Serra do Açôr at an altitude of 1118 meters and is 100 kilometers long.
It flows into the Mondego river at the entrance to Coimbra, then through the parish of Ceira.

Visit the Palheiros River Beach - Ceira (Coimbra)

The Palheiros River Beach, located in the parish of Ceira, is bathed by the waters of the Mondego River.

Visit the Bridge over the Ceira River - Ceira (Coimbra)

Visit the Conraria Bridge - Ceira (Coimbra)

The Conraria Bridge, is an iron bridge over the Ceira River, which connects the parishes of Castelo Viegas and Ceira.

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.

Visit the Ceira Dam (Coimbra)

Visiting the Mondego River - Castelo Viegas (Coimbra)

The Mondego river, which flows into the parish of Castelo Viegas, is the fifth largest Portuguese river and the first of all that have its course entirely in Portugal. Born in the Serra da Estrela, it runs through the entire region of the Center (Beiras Region) and has its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean, next to the city of Figueira da Foz.

Visit the Portela do Mondego Railway Bridge - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

Visit the Portela do Mondego Bridge - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

Visit the Conraria Bridge - Castelo Viegas (Coimbra)

Visit St. Stephen's Church - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

The church of Santo Estêvão, located in the parish of Castelo Viegas, has a beautiful landscape, distributed in staggered volumes consisting of the temple and the churchyard, with steps and terraces thrown on the slope. Of very simple typology, it has a single nave, covered with a wooden ceiling, and a rectangular chancel with a cradle vault, opened by a perfect triumphal arch. The two side chapels are covered with stone vaults, and in the chapel on the side of the Gospel stands the back wall, lined with nineteenth-century blue and white tiles of regional manufacture, with scenes from the Life of the Virgin. In the main façade, with triangular gable, looms the main portal, with a straight span, with a simple curved pediment surmounted by a small round window. More interesting is the south façade, with a similar portal, but topped by a raised bust of the Eternal Father. Originally a bell tower was erected on the façade, already replaced in the twentieth century by the present bell tower.

Visit the Vale de Cabras Fountain - Castelo Viegas (Coimbra)

Visiting the Convent of São Jorge de Milreus - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

The Convent of São Jorge de Milreus, located in the parish of Castelo Viegas, was founded in 1080.
By the mid-twelfth century, the Convent would have attained great prosperity, as appears to be apparent from the great donation that Salvador Viegas made to the cenobium in 1159 of a remarkable array of goods in the immediate vicinity.
What can be seen today in São Jorge de Milreus is the product of a major remodeling campaign carried out from 1526. This monumental Mannerist campaign was one of many Jesuits throughout the country, entering in the institution's government precisely in this 16th century. For the next two centuries, the convent was the subject of numerous partial artistic campaigns, notably the tiled coverings of the church and the chapter room, dating from the first half of the 18th century, and the joanine painting campaign by André Gonçalves for the chapel. love the church.
From 1834, with the passage to the possession of private, Milreus saw his artistic heritage successively alienated, although his space has always had occupation.

Visit the Conraria Castle - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)