Visit the Church of São Miguel and the Cathedral of Castelo Branco

The Igreja de São Miguel and Sé Cathedral of Castelo Branco, is located in Castelo Branco parish.
This church dates back to the Middle Ages.
Originally of Romanesque design, it has undergone alterations throughout the centuries, being nowadays mostly visible the elements of baroque and rococo architecture. The arch of the cruise was altered to about 1608 with still visible vestiges of the original structure of the sixteenth century. The main campaigns of architectural intervention took place in 1682, visible in the lower two levels of the Baroque facade, and in 1691, with the introduction of paintings by Bento Coelho in eight chapels. In 1771, with the passage from Castelo Branco to Diocese, the church rises the cathedral and receives at that time works of improvement. In 1785 the chapel was rebuilt and in 1791 Peter Alexandrino's paintings were introduced in the altarpiece (from 1785) and in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. Other beneficiation interventions were carried out in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The main façade is dominated by three portals on the ground level (lateral with triangular pediment and higher central with interrupted curved pediment), two windows flank a niche with a statue of Saint Michael on the intermediate level, circular oculus on the upper level, and two side bell towers. In the interior, the longitudinal nave presents six lateral altars in gilded carving.
It has been classified as Property of Public Interest since 1978.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Mercy - Porto Santo

The Church of Our Lady of Mercy, located in Porto Santo, is Mannerist and Rococo. It was built in the sixteenth century and is composed of a single nave and a chancel and lower close. Addorsed to the facade are a bell tower and a sacristy. This church it houses lovely altars and paintings by Martim Conrado and Max Romer.

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.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Holm - Outeiro Seco

The Church of Our Lady of Holm oak, located in the Town of Outeiro Seco, is small, dating from the thirteenth century, with a two archivolts portal. The interior is decorated with murals and some fifteenth-century frescoes. Its granite facades are very sober and have few openings. At the top, all around, has cute dogs, representing geometric figures and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic.

Visit the Church of Saint Anthony - Coruche

The St. Anthony Church, located in the Parish of Coruche is an ancient temple of nave, fully tiled type 'standard' in seventeenth-century blue and yellow bow pulpit and simple cruise. In one of the side altars is the former patron. The altar is simple, with the patron to the center and other images for lining. The chancel is vaulted coverage, with several oil paintings.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Castle - Coruche

The Church of Our Lady of the Castle, located in the Parish of Coruche the place where, formerly, rose a castle that was the scene of frequent skirmishes between Muslims and Christians.
It was founded by D. Afonso Henriques, keeping in it a portrait of the king. Suffered over the years, several restorations, presenting today, graceful and attractive, with its small temple and a tower edged dark blue, characteristic of the region.
The Church is very long and rather wide, single nave with stone pulpit and bow of the cruise in pink marble. Occupying a wall, the altar, all gilt, flanked the figures of St. Joseph and St. Peter, is above the tabernacle, the image of Our Lady and Child, standing on a simple throne.
Daigreja The ceiling in the vault is decorated with several religious paintings, especially of the chapel, representing the "Coronation of Our Lady" surrounded by floating angels. Pending the ceiling of the nave can be seen an old crystal chandelier.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Snows - Quarry

The Church of Our Lady of the Snows Parish located in the Quarry, was rebuilt between 1777 and 1782 through public subscription, as stated in the inscriptions on the inside. From a single nave, has a wooden ceiling of three plans, the chancel and two side altars.
In the body of the temple are two pictures of oil painting on board of the late sixteenth century, repainted in a pleasant way. Represent the beheading of a saint and martyr S. episode James and the Moors.
In the sanctuary, there is a chair of the eighteenth century, with the bottom and back of leather recorded. There is also an image of the Trinity, sixteenth-century stone sculpture.

Visit the Convent of Corpus Christi - Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia)

The Convent of Corpus Christi, located in the Town of Santa Marinha, has the church centered design, is organized along an axis, with octagonal vaulted nave, the chancel choir to the east and west, crowned by a dome. In artistic terms, especially the four side altars (with images of rare beauty], the Choir-Alto (site of the first phase of the Baroque, consisting of a distributed stalls on two levels, in the shape of "U" and gilt), the roof consists of 49 decorated panels with oil paintings on wood. The imaginary painting and decorating the church (the roof of the choir, the choir stalls and altarpieces backrest) present an iconography that fits the theme of the Order, representing Saints, Doctors of Church, Dominican and other figures, with emphasis on three main devotions, the Holy Rosary, the name of Jesus and the Eucharist. The stalls, the first half of the seventeenth century, for the hours the office for meetings and convent, has the particularity of In each seat, there is a different figurehead, representing blacks or exotic, plant and animal species, and each scroll is a carved mask, each one different from the others, suggesting influences of Overseas Empire.
Here lies buried D. Leonor Alvim, wife of Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, and grandmother, Don Aboim Maria Mendes, who died in 1355 and founded the convent, is also here the coffin of Cernache Alvaro Anes, first lord of Gaia, which was Flag Lieutenant Ward Valentine at the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385).

Visit the Church of Avintes

The Church of Avintes was built in 1787 to replace the older one.
This church has a modest facade, but very harmonious architectural lines. By the middle between the trusses, has almost the apex of the pediment a niche where the statue of St. Peter, beneath the window of curved lines of the chorus and the main door of which stands out among the ornaments, the insignia of papal patron.
Beside the tower stands, slightly misaligned facade topped by a quadrangular pyramid, where 4 bells of recent manufacture. The whole building is covered with old tiles.
The interior features side altars, especially of the Lady of the Rosary, the others are the altars of Santa Ana and Senhor dos Passos.
The church was painted by Feliciano Joaquim da Costa Braga. This painting is still prevalent, only the roof has been restored and renovated. The old chestnut staves was painted white and had, on the side moldings, colored ornaments stood out among them twelve stools of fantasy, about six of these were angels sitting with flowers and palms in their hands and others testified in polls flowers, the center opened up three large rosettes.
The interior is decorated with gilded woodwork, deserving special attention to the altar of the chapel and the altars in the transept, which are magnificent examples of woodwork. The pulpit, granite base, has a simple wooden balustrade. Four large windows and the door of the facade to let in natural light, highlighting the beauty and harmony of this church.
As for stuffing, deserves special mention in a wooden image of Our Lady and Child, probably the century. XIV, and the Santa Ana, the same material, dating from the century. XVIII.
Regarding the organ is likely to have been brought from the chapel of the Church of the Third Dominicans.
In the sacristy are the oil paintings of deceased avintenses three in Brazil and in his will, do not forget the most important guilds, as well as some parish priests who were once there.

Visit the Church of St. John the Baptist - Alvorge

The Church of St. John the Baptist. located in the Town of Alvorge presents an altarpiece carved angel musicians with seventeenth century and the golden altar in 1553, painted and upholstered by the painter Sernache, Belchior da Fonseca.

Visit the Church of the Mayor

The Church of the Warden is a temple of religious architecture Mannerist and Baroque. Have been founded in the thirteenth century, and was rebuilt in the sixteenth century.
The high altar and side altars were built in the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth and twentieth centuries the church suffered further transformations. There are five altars in this church.
In the sacristy there is a panel of wood, painted with images of St. Paul, St. John the Evangelist, Our Lady and St. Peter.
Under the altar of souls is an eighteenth-century altarpiece featuring various Biblical figures, and a coffin representing Jesus Christ in size.