Visit Nora da Pampilhosa

Visit the Lake of the Garden of Pampilhosa

Visit the Parish Church of Pampilhosa

The Parish Church of Pampilhosa must belong to the first half of the eighteenth century.

The openings are rectangular, the main door is endowed with frieze and cornice and niche finish that two flaps accompany, in the niche S. Augustine of stone evokes the last patrons. The right side door shows frieze and cornice. The windows of the flanks are square and small, in the wedges are raised thick pinnacles. A discoid stele, sepulchral, ​​replaces the cross of the posterior gable. Inside the body are torn two arches for the altars.

The main and collateral altarpieces, made of wood, belong to the second half of the eighteenth century, have two columns and marbled painting. A canvas, in that, closes the dressing room and represents the martyrdom of Santa Marinha, being of the following century. The retable of the arch of the left is composed of several carvings of century XVII and XVIII; the one of the right of century XVIII, shows columns and supports in the form of base of Hermes.

Highlights are the sculptures of Santa Marinha of Gothic stone, small of centuries XV and XVI, simple are of wood the ones of Saint. Joseph, Virgin with the Child (Rosary), in the collaterals of average size of the eighteenth century, regular; Crucified Christ, great current, of the nineteenth century; Saint Anthony, small, of the seventeenth century. The baptismal font and one of Holy Water show Quinceanera profiles.

The processional cross, made of white silver, from the 16th and 17th centuries, shows flat arms and dark ends, knotted in an ancient urn, all surfaces decorated with interlaced strips.

The custody is of seventeenth century golden silver, of circular osierium with slight protruding elements, the surfaces are decorated of the current elements.

Visit the Fonte do Melo - Pampilhosa

The Fonte do Melo, located in the parish of Pampilhosa, was inaugurated in 1925, greatly benefiting the population. In its aspect is a simple font, without style flair.

It is made up only of an arch that has been dug in its entirety, forming a niche, made of cement imitating cork, surmounted by a small coat of arms with the initials CM (City Hall) and a tombstone with the name of "Fonte do Melo" the name of the donor.

In order to bring this water from the Mine to the place of the source in good sanitation, a conduit of sandstone shackles, later in fibro-cement, was built to replace the old discovered gutters that once brought it from the source, irrigate the Quinta do Melo.

Visit the Fountain of Poças - Pampilhosa

The water from the Poças fountain, located in the parish of Pampilhosa, runs to a stone tank, which once served to give drink to the working oxen, which formerly all the farmers of the place possessed. Beside it is a wide poial, where the women who went to the fountain lay the canecos while they waited their turn, and also served to help put them to the head.

The water of this fountain is limestone, so it is not good to drink, but it is abundant, running without interruption either of winter or summer in an inexhaustible source. It has an interesting property: cook the vegetables very well leaving them with a beautiful green color. It is also tradition on earth that it has medicinal properties - which I do not know - but which can be proved by an appropriate analysis. When the last restoration, the Parish Council of Pampilhosa, has alimented the place, ordering a flower bed, which gives a certain beauty to the site making it more captivating and pleasant.

Visit Fonte D'Aqui - Pampilhosa

Fonte D'Aqui, located in Pampilhosa Parish, has a configuration of a dive source, consisting of a tank where water is born, which bubbles clear and clear between the bottom stones; but being of calcareous nature, although fresh is not of pleasant taste.

The fountain is covered by a stone poial, where the women used the pitchers or canecos to help themselves or wait their turn.

The name of Fonte D'Aqui is well known for its proximity to the place, because on the slope of Brejoeira, beyond the river Certima, there is another source of diving, also quite ancient, called - Fonte d'Além as opposed to the one that was close.

Visit the Cinema-Theater Building - Pampilhosa

Visit the Swiss Chalet - Pampilhosa

Chalet Suiço, located in the Parish of Pampilhosa, was built in 1886, an inn for travelers who, when changing trains in Pampilhosa, had to spend the night there

Paul Bergamim, a Swiss from the Italian canton, obtained concessions from the bars along the Beira Alta Line and built in the so-called "Entroncamento da Pampilhosa" the mother house, where he settled down and created conditions for rest and sleep of illustrious passers-by. It is a common voice that King D. Carlos stopped there to rekindle spent forces in the long hours by train.

Visit the Fountain of the Boy - Pampilhosa

Fonte do Garoto, located in Pampilhosa Parish, is an artistic fountain, surmounted by a bronze sculpture by Mestre Teixeira Lopes.

This very original fountain represents a boy of the people pouring an amphora, placed in the middle of the public fountain tank. Mestre Teixeira Lopes, put in this work all his fine sensibility as a sculptor of children, and the humble boy, the little worker of old, is here faithfully represented.

Visit the Pampilhosa Chapel

Visit the Chapel do Canedo - Pampilhosa

The Chapel of Canedo, located in the Parish of Pampilhosa, features a current Sanctuary of the body and chapel, which should date from the seventeenth century. It has a porch of Tuscan pilaretes, on full parapet, belfry at the vertex of gable. The Pulpit is to the right of cylindrical stone, resting on massive masonry. Retable of the early Renaissance, from the 17th century, limestone; three niches between four columns, corrugated, Corinthian. Only the sculpture of the proprietor, S. Lourenço, equally stone of the XVII century, is of better category, but current.

Visit the Pampilhosa Aqueduct

The aqueduct of Pampilhosa has more than thirty arches and was inaugurated in 1925.

Visit Mealhada

Mealhada is a city with about 4500 inhabitants, located in the southern limit of the District of Aveiro. It is the main urban center of the wine sub-region of Bairrada.It is the seat of a municipality with 110.66 square kilometers and 20,428 inhabitants, divided into 8 districts (Before, Barcouço, Casal Comba, Luso, Mealhada, Pampilhosa, Vacariça and Ventosa do Bairro). The municipality is located in the southern part of the district of Aveiro and is bordered to the north by Anadia, east by Mortágua and Penacova, Coimbra and to the south by west by Canterbury.The municipality of Aveiro extends between theSerra do Buçaco and gandareza edge cantanhede, watching the small river Cértima from the source to the border of Anadia municipality.  

Small historical review 

The Roman presence in the municipality highlight the achamento a milestone (which dates back to 39 AD) would indicate the 12 mile route of the Roman Olissipo (Lisbon) Cale (Vila Nova de Gaia), which follow the west side of the river This finding is today in the lobby of the town hall building. Also this time is the archaeological site of the Sands City located in Vimieira that is already referenced from the first century by Strabo and known nowadays since 1959, which is thought to have been a Elbocoris oppidum, or small Roman fort. Found this site date back to the centuries I to IV. Also in place of Barcouço found some Roman remains such as coins and pottery.With the conquest of Coimbra in 878, the land in which it operates the county are safe for reoccupation Christian, but in the fateful year of 987 returns to Arab hands and only regained for the Christian to 1064. Thus, attempts to reoccupy suspended for 77 years were taken up with the installation of several monasteries in the area where the future county is going to enter. The records of that era come to us through the Black See Book (Old) of Coimbra, the Book of records of wills of Lorvão the Monastery. So it is from this time that most of the names and location of much of the county's land beginning to emerge, letters of donation and documentation relating to taxes, as well as the great importance that the gone Vacariça Monastery had in the lands south of the Duero and North Mondego. But only the September 12, 1514 Aveiro and Vacariça receive charter by King Manuel I, but the lands of the current county remained under the jurisdiction of the

Bishop of Coimbra, so the current territory belonged to the medieval districts of Coimbra (Pampilhosa), Vacariça (Vacariça , Aveiro and Portuguese) and Casal Comba and Ventosa (Ventosa and before).In the nineteenth century, with the great liberal reforms created the current municipality of Aveiro in the reign of Queen Maria II. Created April 6, 1836 consisted of the parishes of Casal Comba, Ventosa, Tamengos and Aguim being the Aveiro was the county seat and belonged to the parish of a neighboring county, the Vacariça, which, at the time of its extinction in 1837 held the parishes of Vacariça, Luso and Vila Nova de Monsarros that became part of the Anadia municipality. Also in December 31, 1853 passed to the county parishes Pampilhosa, disaggregated in the municipality of Coimbra, and the Barcouço coming of the former municipality Ançã (Canterbury), leaving in turn Aguim and Tamengos for Anadia municipality. With the format that still remains the county would see the county seat to the parish rise in June 24, 1944, detached Vacariça the parish and also the parish of Ventosa to divide and create the Before parish the April 23, 1964 thereby administratively as today.

On always Coimbra, the allocation between the districts of Aveiro and Coimbra was conflicted, being integrated in Aveiro Aveiro between 1836 and 1842, the year he moved to Coimbra, the switch to Mira municipality would again put the county back in Aveiro district in 1855.

Places to go

 In the Parish of Before: 
Source 
St. Peter's Church 
Pond Sume 
Door with inscriptions in Latin

 In Barcouço Parish: 
Football Pitch 
Chapel 
Chapel of St. Anthony 
St. Anthony Cruise 
Square sources 
Church of Our Lady O 

In Couple Parish Comba: 
Chapel Lendiosa 
Chapel Silvã 
St. Martin Church

In Luso Town:
 Chapel of St. Anthony 
Chapel of St. John the Evangelist 
Cascade Sierra Buçaco 
Cruz Alta 
Statue of Emygdio Navarro 
Source of Fountains 
Cold Source 
Source Buçaco Mountain 
Parish Church 
Gardens Buçaco 
Gardens of the National Palace Buçaco 
Lake Luso
 Lake Buçaco 
Lake Valley of Ferns 
Viewpoint of Cruz Alta 
Monument to the Battle of Buçaco 
The Portuguese Water Monument 
National Palace Buçaco 
Of Railways Bridge
Serpa doors 
Sula doors
 Buçaco Mountain 
Spa Luso
Valley of the Ferns 

In the Parish of Mealhada: 
Cine Teatro Municipal of Mealhada 
Phillips cruise 
Statue of the God Bacchus 
Statue of Piglet 
Church 
Church of St. Anne 
Garden Town Hall 
Milestone 
Tribute to Fire Monument
 Tiles panel 
City's park

In Pampilhosa Parish: 
Aqueduct 
Chapel 
Chapel of Canedo 
Fountain Statue 
Swiss Chalet 
Building Cine Teatro 
Source D'Here 
Source of Puddles 
Source of Mello 
Church 
Lake Garden
Nora 

In Vacariça Parish: 
Travasso Football Field 
Fountain of Travasso
Church of San Vicente 
Church of Travasso 
Water Mill
Monument 1000 Years 
Lograssol Park 
Solar People's House

In the Parish of Ventosa Neighborhood: 
Chapel of Santa Luzia
Church 
Garção de Varzim Old Well

Where to Eat 
Restaurants 
Basil of Piglets 
Belarmino 
Celso of Piglets 
Couceiro of Piglets 
Barbecue Rock 
Dom Rogerio 
Bairrada flower
 Forest Piglets 
Fire On Floor 
Hilarious
 Licinius 
Lourenços 
Manuel Júlio
Goal of Piglets 
Nelson of Piglets 
The Castiço 
The Cesteiro 
Escondidinho 
The piglet 
The saddles 
The Typical Bairrada 
Vitor 
Oasis 
Octavio of Piglets 
The Park 
Courtyard of Casqueira 
Rock Salt 
Peter of Piglets 
Pic Nic 
Pizzeria "La Toscana" 
Quinta dos Três Pinheiros 
Regional 
King of Piglets
STOP
 Balcony Lake 
North Ze 
Snack Bars 
Traditional cellar 
Dunes Bar 
Errejota 
Isabelita 
Kate-Kero 
Farmer 
Half Toast 
The Corner
 The Snail 
The Lantern 
MarinoTino 
The Vaz 
Tás Ca Larica 
Tony

Where To Stay 
Grande Hotel do Luso 
Hotel Alegre 
Hotel Central 
Hotel Eden 
Inatel Luso 
Buçaco Palace Hotel 
Toll Bairrada Center 
Quinta dos Três Pinheiros 
Hostel for pilgrims 
Hostal Imperial 
Pension Castilla 
Residential Choupal 
Residential Hilary 
Residential Oasis 
Residential Regional 
Houses of Bussaco in the National Forest of Bussaco
 Thursday Lograssol 
Quinta do Carvalhinho
Solar Vacariça 
Villa Aurora 
Vila Duparchy 
Camping Luso Park