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Showing posts with label Crosses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crosses. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Visit High Cross - Luso

The Cruz Alta located on the top of Serra do Buçaco, at 547 meters altitude, the Luso Parish.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Visit the Church of St. Euphemia - Pinheiros (Tabuaço)

The Church of Santa Eufemia, located in Town of Pines (Tabuaço), but has Baroque architecture made ​​on the medieval chapel. Shows crosses carved on the walls and pilasters. The altarpiece is Baroque structure of the national transition period for the Johannine. Boasts murals depicting scenes from the life of Christ, in the chancel.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Visit the Chapel of the Quinta da Gandra - Avintes

The Chapel of the Quinta da Gandra, located in the Town of Avintes is baroque. Displays at the summit with a magnificent cross flanked by flush fire pits, rosacea on the door, is decorated with a thin cord.
Inside, we found a beautiful altar with two columns with Corinthian capitals and corbels side. At noon, the image of Our Lady of Mount Caramel, whose niche is framed with fine carvings and acanthus leaves, beneath the Lady of Sorrows. It should be noted the beauty of the eardrum, typically eighteenth century.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Visit High Cross - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The High Cross, is the highest point of the Serra de Sintra, 528 meters high, in the Parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Visit Fonte Santa - Ansião

The Holy Fountain, located in the Town of Ansião is Mannerist, with a niche surmounted by a Latin cross

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Visit the Chapel of St. Anthony - Capinha

The Chapel of St. Anthony, located in the parish of Capinha, consists of a wide body and a porch party. In the body stands a seventeenth-century carved altar painted. The porch is in granite ashlar. In front of the chapel are three crosses.