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Showing posts with label District of Porto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label District of Porto. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Visit Pier Areinho - Oliveira do Douro (Vila Nova de Gaia)

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Visit the Monument to Volunteer Firefighter - Avintes

The Volunteer Firefighter Monument located in the Town of Avintes, is the sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Visit the Zoo St. Ignatius - Avintes

Zoo in St. Ignatius, located in the Town of Avintes live more than 200 species of exotic animals, many endangered in the wild, specially designed to give them the best living conditions. This zoo covers an insectarium (more than 40 species), a reptile (more than 30 species), raptors and birds of the rainforest, among others. It also has a playground, picnic area, a forest with two hectares, a romantic garden harmoniously flowers, a tropical greenhouse, an educational farm and a house-museum of the century. XIX which can be visited.

Visit Pier Estero - Avintes

Friday, May 13, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Soalhães

The Pillory Soalhães presents a platform of three steps of square plan rests where a monolithic square base and is a monolithic cylindrical shaft with a collar. The board is square-framed and above it are four small columns of a square base and pyramidal finial.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Visit the Church of walls Viador

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Walls of Viador


Visit the Viewpoint of cages - Pacos Coop

Visit the Chapel of St. Martin of Fandinhães - Pacos Coop

The Chapel of St. Martin of Fandinhães, located in the Parish of Pacos cage, it was built in the eighteenth century. Displays rectangular headboard covered with gable roof cornice framed based on motifs in dogs in curves, scrolls and flowers with four petals and human and animal-figurations. In the center of the side walls and crevices of logs later has dihedral. The current main facade, corresponding to the primitive connection to the ship, still retains all his time with his shot from the gable crowned by a cross. The old hole facing east, on the roof of the chancel is covered by tile panel with a polychrome statue of the Virgin. The triumphal arch, the arch of two archivolts based laterally decorated and placed in two columns to the left addorsed presenting a capital with a snake or a sea monster. The imposed exhibit interlace, spirals and circles connected snared. Inside the chapel, floor paved with footstool three steps across the whole width, having altar tile with the front edge of the Hispano-Arabic. On the back wall, and gilded altarpiece on a white background, arranged in three panels defined by columns and entablatures, each with an image of sculpture: the center of the Lady Livração to your left and right São Brás São Martinho. The inner cover is made of wood painted green, forming a vault arch.

Visit Dam Carrapatelo - Pacos Coop

The Carrapatelo Dam, located in the Parish Hall of the cage, began construction in 1965 and was completed in 1972. It was the first hydroelectric project being built in the national section of the river Douro and is what provides the biggest drop, 36.0 m.
It is a type of gravity dam, lightened by a large circular gallery next to the foundation.
The dam has a height of 57 me a crest length of 400 m.
The total area of the basin is 92,050 km ² and extends for 40 km reach at the end of the amount of hydroelectric Ruler. The total volume of 148 million m³ is stored.