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Showing posts with label Frontier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frontier. Show all posts
Monday, April 25, 2011
Visit the Clock Tower - Borders
Etiquetas:
boundary (Town),
District of Portalegre,
Frontier,
Torres,
Watches
Visit the Ribeira Grande - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Ribeiras
Visiting the Bridge River Beach - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Beaches,
Border (Town),
Frontier,
Portalegre District
Visit the Ponte Romana da Ribeira Grande - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Bridges,
Frontier,
Portalegre District
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Visit Pelourinho Border
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Frontier,
Pelourinhos,
Portalegre District
Visit the Church of the Valley Silk - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Border (Parish),
Church,
Frontier,
Portalegre District
Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia - Frontier
The Church of Nossa Senhora da Atalaia, was built by King Sebastian in the sixteenth century and was finalized in 1559, but for several centuries was getting successive amendments. The main facade, there are the two square towers, while the interior has three naves with round arches and has a high altar made entirely of marble. The rest are in baroque altars.
Etiquetas:
Border (Parish),
Church,
Frontier,
Portalegre District
Visit the Statue of Our Lady of the Old Town - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Statues
Visit the Railway Station Border
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Tiles,
Train Stations
Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Soul - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Chapels,
Frontier,
Portalegre District
Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows - Frontier
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Chapels,
Frontier,
Portalegre District
Visit the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Vila Velha - Frontier

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Old Town, located in the parish of Frontier, introducedinterior of nave with barrel vault and chorus on the porch. The whole body of the chapel is decorated with. The ceiling of the chapel is all painted, the panels being divided by stripe showing couplets. The original chapel was founded around 1226 and has been refurbished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Etiquetas:
Border (Town),
Chapels,
Frontier,
Painting,
Portalegre District,
Tiles
Visit the Clock Tower - Vide
The Clock Tower, located in the Town of Vide, was not built to watch, though in the century. XVI has passed to have this function.It has a square frame with masonry corners of granite, four eyelets and a bell. Its dome has a quadrangular pyramid with twelve small pyramids of the same design, on the landing. The old clock faces southeast and southwest again. The primitive face of the clock is dated 1570.
Etiquetas:
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Torres,
Vide,
Watches
Visit the Roman Baths of Vide
Etiquetas:
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Spa,
Vide
Visit the spa Sulfur - Vide
The Baths of sulphurous, located in the Town of Vide, stay in the valley of the Ribeira da Vide, about 1 km to the southeast of the village. The whole building has three floors which, in addition to the treatment areas include the reception areas for the guests, treatments, indoor swimming pools, cooling zones, gym as well as traces of old thermal area. These waters are indicated for diseases of a osteo-articular (arthritis), respiratory (asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, rhinitis) and skin.
Etiquetas:
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Spa,
Vide
Visit the Pelourinho Vide
The Pillory Vide is situated opposite the Town Hall, is made of granite and is based on a square platform with three steps on which rests the octagonal shaft. Its conical helm flanged bearing the Cross of Avis on the opposite side of the royal arms.Pelourinho had four anchors drilled into the top of the column where the "criminals" were hung from a rope placed under the arms, and sometimes were tied to the column. It was one of those positions that were exposed to popular derision and physical punishment, which varied according to the seriousness of the offense or the customs of the time.
The pillory is classified as a national monument.
Etiquetas:
Frontier,
Pelourinhos,
Portalegre District,
Vide
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Visit the Church of the Holy Spirit - Vide

The Church of the Holy Spirit, located in the Town of Vide is the heyday of the Village, more specifically the beginning of the century. XVI. The main entrance, the side altar and the grave of Brás Gonçalves Figueiró are marble.The roof is hidden by a parapet wall with battlements guarded paralelepipedic truncated, the steeple is classic, with a bell-century. XVI, another century. Seventeenth and ring a bell in noteworthy.
The aisle was added to enlarge the space of the church.
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Vide
Visit Station Railways Vide
Station Vide is a building with graceful lines, pleasing in its path in its granite worked in the eaves and talon and beautiful panels of polychrome tiles, painted by L Batistini in 1933.The motives of the exterior panels are even suggestive. There are pigs in the meadow, picking olives, costumes and the village field, horse breeding, sheep herding, with threshing wheat beasts, drawing the cork, plowing the land with mules, sowing, harvesting, transportation of wheat for threshing, the Clock Tower at Town Hall and the Pillory.
High on the facade, there is another panel framed with flowers, a coat of Quinas the center.
The station was decommissioned decades ago and recently underwent an intervention of recovery and adaptation transforming it into the present magnificent Queen Cottages Leonor.
Etiquetas:
Frontier,
Portalegre District,
Tiles,
Train Stations,
Vide
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