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Showing posts with label Pelourinhos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pelourinhos. Show all posts

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Visit the Pillory of Vila Franca de Lampaças - Sendas

The Pelourinho of Vila Franca de Lampaças is located in Sendas parish and is classified as a Building of Public Interest.

Friday, March 22, 2019

The Pelourinho de Rebordãos located in the place of Pelourinho, in the parish of Rebordãos, was built in the Middle Ages.
The steps, primitively in shale, were redone in granite. The shaft, decorated with hemispheres, is octagonal and supports a cubically shaped capital with slightly concave edges. A small pyramid can be seen above the capital.
This Pelourinho is classified as Property of Public Interest.

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Visit the Pillory of Rebordainhos

The Pillory of Rebordainhos, will have been erected in century XVI. And it is on a punch formed by two quadrangular steps, it rests the quadrangular shaft of angles bevelled, possessing the half an arc of iron. The shot is square, with the faces lowered, presenting as decoration in low relief a face and what seems to be a cross of Saint Andrew. It is classified as Property of Public Interest

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Visit the Pelourinho do Outeiro (Bragança)

The Pelourinho do Outeiro is located in Outeiro parish and is classified as a Building of Public Interest

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Visit the Pelourinho de Frieira - Macedo do Mato

The Pelourinho de Frieira is located in Macedo do Mato parish, and has been classified as a Property of Public Interest since 1933.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Visit the Pelourinho de Gostei

The Pelourinho de Gostei is located in Gostei parish.
This pillory has been classified as Property of Public Interest since 1933.

Friday, January 18, 2019

Visit the Faery Pillory

The Pelourinho de Faílde has been classified as Property of Public Interest since 1933.

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Visit the Pelourinho de Beja

Beja's pillory will have been re-erected after the concession of the New Foral by Manuel I of Portugal.
At the beginning of the 19th century, it was transferred to D. Manuel Square (today Praça da República), believed to have been previously placed in the courtyard of the Paços do Concelho, ending up being dismantled in the same century, at an unknown date. During this period some of its architectural elements disappeared, with the exception of the capital, the auction and part of the shaft.
It has been classified as a Property of Public Interest since October 11, 1933.
It came to be reconstructed in 1938 with the elements that were then collected in the Archaeological Museum of the new building of the City Hall, later transferred to the Museum Queen D. Leonor, and that were constituted by the capital, the shot and the grimpa with the sphere armillary and flag surmounted by the Cross of Christ.
It has a trunk-pyramidal torso decorated with discs, palmettes, rosettes and ring, and is topped by a capital also torso and topped by armillary sphere and the Cross of Christ in iron.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Visit the Pillory Esgueira (Aveiro)

The Pillory Esgueira is located near the old Town Hall of Esgueira, in the parish of Esgueira. It is datable to the early twentieth century XVIII.Sobre a pedestal, stands the trunk, torso, without any decoration. It is surmounted by a Corinthian capital, a single order of acanthus, on which rises the entablature and a parallelepiped body. Parallelepiped is the body which are carved the symbols of the country and Esgueira: national coat of arms, barque, three crossed arrows, armillary sphere dominated the cross of Christ. Of particular reference to the barque, to represent the dominant maritime activity in the region. Finally, note also the presence of iron galheiros, ending in flower and rings between them.
The Pelourinho is classified as property of public interest.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Arcos (Tabuaço)

Pelourinho Arcos (Tabuaço) was built in the sixteenth century and was rebuilt in 2001. It features a square platform with three steps. On this platform is a square plinth, which part of the stem topped with small prismatic octagonal ring. The capital prismatic octagonal frame is delimited by the concave bottom and the top and crowned by pyramid.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Coruche

Pelourinho Coruche, was rebuilt in 1941 from original elements of the centuries XV / XVI, presents a blow which staggered five steps based on a hexagonal base with double plinth, Scotland and bocelão faceted. The torso is coiled stem rosettes and has square, interrupted by the center ring decorated with saw teeth, balls and tickets. It features an armillary sphere, cross Avis, machines, weapons and cross the town of Calatrava.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Pelourinho Visit of St. Nicholas (March Canavezes)

The Pillory of St. Nicholas (March Canavezes) consists of four steps up a podium which supports a cylindrical column, surmounted by a quadrangular element, finished at its corners by four smaller pyramids and more, in the center.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Visit Pelourinho Border

Border Pelourinho was built in the sixteenth century and retired in 1865, was rebuilt later in 1930 looking to maintain part of the original design. The revivalist architecture introduced him, however, new elements like the ring of the stem.

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.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Visit Pelourinho de Sintra - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

Pelourinho de Sintra, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), is to copy the old March Manueline overthrown in 1854. it is a work of the master stonemason Joseph Fonseca, erected in 1940. Presents three steps that serve as a hexagonal punch the octagonal base of the pillory. This, helical shaft adorned with rosettes and quadripétalas presents, half, two strings separated by a concavity. The capital boasts with acanthus leaves, in the shot, and iron pine cone to the top. The entablature emerge four irons bondage.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Visit Pelourinho Colares

The pillory Colares is type Manuelian and probably contemporary renewal of the Provincial Necklaces in 1516.
Presents basic prismatic shaft studded with flowers emerging in the spiral grooves that are repeated at the top, the conical pyramid rests on a lush fluorescence.
It is different from the medieval pillory the richness of decoration and by the force of the artistic sense that was ornate, the pillory is the best example of such a monument of the time Manuelina.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Batagram

The Pillory Batagram plain shaft has settled on the basis of three steps. It is surmounted by a capital quite worked.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Visit the Pelourinho Pousaflores

The pillory Pousaflores is transformed into a cruise and introduces three steps based on which rests a square-based column. The results of the Pelourinho charter granted by King Manuel I, 12 November 1514.