Visit the Basilica of Santo Cristo - Outeiro (Bragança)

The basilica of Santo Cristo do Outeiro is a church-sanctuary in the Parish of Outeiro.
This basilica is a national monument since 1927 and received on July 12, 2014 the title of minor Basilica, attributed by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
It began to be built in 1698. Although the temple was open to worship from May 3, 1713, it was only effectively completed in 1739.
The architecture of the temple is distinguished by the symmetry and balance of proportions. It follows a baroque model inspired by the Manueline architecture, with the main source being the church of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém, in an attempt to revive the golden period of the discoveries before the Philippine dominion.
The main façade is inspired by the church of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora. It is torn by a magnificent twinned portal, surmounted by a large rosette and flanked by two bell towers with a pyramidal finish.
The interior, of baroque taste, is typical of the church-hall. The altars of polychrome and gilt carving stand out.
In the sacristy stand the paintings of coffins by the Valistolean painter Damião Bustamante, made in 1768 and also following a seventeenth-century revivalist trend.

Visit the Monastery of Tibães - Mire de Tibães

The Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães, also known as Monastery of Tibães, is located in the parish of Mire de Tibães. The whole includes the Church of Tibães and the Cruise of Tibães.

The monastery was founded in the eleventh century and rebuilt a century later. In the 16th century, it became the motherhouse of the Order for Portugal and Brazil.

The main existing buildings were built in the 17th and 18th centuries.

With the extinction of the male religious orders occurred in 1834, it was sold by public auction, with the exception of the church, sacristy and cloister of the cemetery.

It remained in private hands until 1986, when it was acquired by the Portuguese State. Since then the process of recovery of the estate has begun.

The Monastery is classified as Property of Public Interest

Throughout its history, and given its importance, the monastery brought together the largest and most valuable estate in the region. In it they stood out from the painting, the sculpture and the sacred art, to a vast collection of books on varied subjects. After the sale of the property in 1834, most of the estate was lost.

The current museum preserves only a fragment of this collection, to which are added new pieces related to the history of the monastery and the Benedictine congregation. It is also possible to go through the "Museological Route", where you can appreciate the surrounding area of ​​the Monastery, its architecture, the ruins of previous buildings, the forest, the gardens, and various agricultural fields such as orchards, orchards and mills.

Visit the Garden of the Monastery of Tibães - Mire de Tibães

The Garden of the Monastery of Tibães, located in the Parish of Mire de Tibães, forms, with the respective Monastery, an unusual collection constituted by a garden landscaped in front of the chapel, delimited by a wall seiscentista. In the center, it has a glass of water from where departing flights of stairs with waterfalls.

Visit the Convent of St. Peter of the Eagles - Tavora

The Convent of St. Peter of Eagles, located in the Town of Tavora, traces of Romanesque religious architecture, Mannerist and Baroque. The original structure shows that it was a Cistercian monastery. The church has a nave, chancel and sacristy. It also cloister with dormitory, refectory, chapter room and a fifth for agricultural self-sufficiency of convent life.

Visit the Monastery of St. Peter of the Eagles - Granjinha

The Monastery of St. Peter of Eagles, located in the Town of Granjinha, is a twelfth-century Romanesque building, erected a small platform Tavora Valley. One of the most interesting aspects is the existence of several figures of animals, especially snakes. In front is a decorated arch, supported by carved columns and capitals as well. The small door to the north shows an Agnus Dei. This Monastery is classified as a cultural heritage building.

Visit the Monastery of Serra do Pilar - Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Monastery of Serra do Pilar is a historic monument, located in the Town of Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia).
The start of construction took place in 1538 and ended in 1670 with the completion of the church of Our Lady of Pilar. At first, by order of King John III.
Later, during the Civil War of 1832-1834, the liberal army settled in the monastery, arguing that its troops were besieged in the city of Porto.

Visit the Monastery of Pedroso

Pedroso's Monastery is a Benedictine monastery and the main monument in the parish of Pedroso.
The monastery was donated by Don and Gondezinho established between the tenth or eleventh century.
The monastery received in her bosom as comandatários abbot, Father Peter Julian, and was later appointed Pope John XXI.

Visit the Monastery of San Salvador - Grijó

The Monastery of San Salvador, located in the Town of Grijó, was founded in the year 922 and was expanded in the late eleventh century. Over time, this old monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine had undergone substantial changes in its architectural profile.
Its facade is modest, consisting of a porch with three round arches based on pilasters, surmounted by niches containing sculptures stony S. Peter and St. Paul, with a facade topped by a pediment. At the base of the front develops a feature of mannerist balcony, while the left side rises, separated from the body of the facade, a disproportionate bell tower.
The interior has a Latin cross plan and the body of a single nave, covered by a vault reinforced by arches authors/cre- ators. Before the ship a hall decorated with tiles enxaquetados, from the chapter room manufacturing sixteenth century. The craft shows six side chapels, which are part of the stage setting compositions gilded baroque altarpiece.
The transept, separated from the nave by a railing in black wood, is covered by a ribbed vault and has two balanced Mannerist carved altarpieces. The bow of the cruise has a niche housing a statue of Christ the Savior and the Pelican, a symbol of selflessness.
The chancel was completed in 1626 and is covered by decorated with coffered barrel vault. The walls are covered with carpet tiles, with a standard seventeenth-century baroque. In the background it must be constituted by the soft huge gilded reredos Johannine, which was added in 1795 monumental canvas of Peter of Alexandria. Ostentatious baroque stalls eighteenth century paneled in black wood is complemented by several hagiographic paintings, works of authorship D. Diogo - canon of this Augustinian monastery.
The sacristy is covered with paneled ceiling and shows its walls covered with ornamental carpets century tiles.
Something disproportionate are the galleries of the cloister of the sixteenth century, due to the greater height of the top. The two floors are the rhythmic elegance of an Ionic colonnade, while the central space of the cloister is marked by a fountain Mannerist. The exterior of the upper galleries is lined with tile panels with pictures of the seventeenth century hagiographic, which can break the austere simplicity of the lines of the mannerist cloister.
The northern gallery of the cloister has a small arcosolium housing the magnificent tomb of Queen Rodrigo Sanchez, son of D. Sancho and Mary Pais Ribeira - infant who died in combat in the year 1245, this monastery nearby. Poorly preserved, his coffin is a beautiful work of Romanesque sculpture, made ​​of white limestone Ançã in themiddle of thirteenth century.

Visit the Monastery of the Aqueduct Grijó

The Aqueduct of the Monastery of Grijó is arch structure carrying water to some of the convent. Ends in a fountain with a pond, inside the fence.

Visit the Monastery of Santa Maria - Vila Boa do Bispo

The Monastery of Santa Maria, located in the parish of Vila Boa do Bispo, dates back to the last half century X.

Visit the Serra de Sintra

The Serra de Sintra belongs to the same mountain range of Serra da Estrela, which ends in Cabo da Roca, marking the western limit of Europe. Is about 10 kilometers from east to west and approx 5 km wide with its highest peak at an altitude of 529 meters. It has a rich fauna, with her ​​example, fox, genets, the mole salamander, the peregrine falcon, the viper and various species of lizards. Its climate is mild with plenty of oceanic influences, and this gives it a higher rainfall compared to the rest of the Greater Lisbon area. It also follows a unique vegetation. About nine hundred species of plants are indigenous and 10% are endemic. Some of them are oak, cork oak and stone pine. Paa is an ideal place for climbing and mountaineering, since the slopes are mostly oriented to the west, which lengthens the light on summer afternoons in the Sintra hills is that we can find the Moorish Castle, the Pena Palace, the Capuchin monastery, the Palace of Monserrate.

Visit the Monastery of Folques

The Folques Monastery, located in the Town of Folques, is of medieval origin and is situated in a valley near the riverside of Folques, whose elements are the oldest bell tower and the cloisters, the fifteenth century, built in XVII century building.

The monastery has Baroque elements, a second cloister and wooden altars in the church. Dating from the eighteenth century, this church is dedicated to St. Peter and has in its interior altarpieces (main and side) of wood carved in the late seventeenth century, limestone sculptures of the fifteenth century representing various saints, wooden sculptures of the eighteenth century on behalf São Teotónio and a holy water font, Manueline.Classification of Property of Public Interest includes the filling and artistic adjacent fifth.

It is currently deployed in a local vocational training school, which enjoys the rich surrounding landscape of the region.

Visit Marmorial the manor (or Boavista)

The Marmorial Sobrado, was classified as a national monument in 1950. Also known by marmorial Boavista. has a type different from others by not presenting arc. Formed by two headlands with vertical engraved crosses within which lie 2 horizontal slabs. The top is rectangular and the bottom, corresponding to a tomb cover, has a convex shape on the surface.
At the bottom slab were recorded a long sword and a Greek cross inscribed in a circle. The external sides of both slabs were recorded swords.
What Marmoiral of Sobrado has been dated to the mid-thirteenth century.
According to legend is related to D. Mafalda, daughter of D. Sancho I. Referred to as the staging point in transferring his body to the Monastery of Arouca, where the princess was buried.