Visit the Church of St. Bartholomew - Vila Viçosa

St. Bartholomew's Church, located in the Parish of St. Bartholomew (Vila Viçosa), is a sixteenth century church, also known as the Church of St. John the Evangelist. This church membership outside of the Jesuit College.

Bears on its facade a certain grandeur in the Baroque style, lined with marble bardilho the region, with three rows of windows and three doorways flanked by Doric columns. It has two square towers lush without gables, steeples and six bells which includes the famous clock Caracena who served the public of the Keep of the Castle and the Wars of Restoration was heavily damaged by the troops of the Spanish general of that name.

Inside the temple, and plenty of good marble carving is notable that the tabernacle of gilded wood and can enjoy themselves also upholstered and wooden sculptures several screens of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In the sacristy attached, which left the more valuable items to the Museum of Sacred Art, there are also various tools of the cult, which were significant, and a nasty paramenteiro fine chest of oak.

Visit the Church of Mercy - Saint Bartholomew (Vila Viçosa)

The Church of Mercy, located in the Parish of St. Bartholomew (Vila Viçosa) from the merger of two institutes of charity: the hostel of the Holy Spirit whose origin dates back to the fifteenth century and the Brotherhood of Mercy, recently founded by Duke D. Jaime, now in the early sixteenth century.

Visit the Convent and Church of Santa Cruz - St. Bartholomew (Vila Viçosa)

The Convent of Santa Cruz de Vila Viçosa, located in the Parish of St. Bartholomew's convent of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, was founded about the year 1525.

Currently the church is private property and public monastic structure.

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Visit the Statue of Florbela Espanca - Saint Bartholomew (Évora)

The Statue of Florbela Espanca, located in the Parish of St. Bartholomew (Vila Viçosa), is a tribute to poet Portuguese, named after Bela Alma Flor da Conceição and born in Vila Viçosa to December 8, 1894. The life of thirty-six years was tumultuous, restless and full of intimate suffering that the author was able to transform into poetry of the highest quality, full of eroticism and femininity. He was immortalized musically his poem "Poet Be" by the song "Hopelessly" of Trovante. Florbela Espanca committed suicide on the day of his 36th birthday in Matosinhos, December 8, 1930.

Visit the Statue of Bento Jesus Caraça - Saint Bartholomew (Évora)

The Statue of Bento de Jesus Caraça is a tribute to the Portuguese mathematician, tough anti-fascist and Communist Party stalwart Portuguese born in Vila Viçosa to April 18, 1901 who died in Lisbon on June 25, 1948.

Bento Jesus Caraça graduated in 1923, the Institute of Economics and Finance (now ISEG).

In 1936 he founded the Center for Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry along with other recent doctorates in mathematics and physics.

In 1938, with teachers and Beirão Mira Fernandes da Veiga, founded the Center for Studies in Applied Mathematics to Economics, which he headed until October 1946, the year of its termination by the Government.

In 1940, with professors António Monteiro, Hugo Ribeiro, Jose Manuel da Silva and Paulo Zaluar created the Mathematical Gazette

In 1941 creates the "Biblioteca Cosmos, editing books, scientific and cultural, which published 114 books, with a circulation of 793,500 copies overall.

In 1946 he was arrested by the PIDE, and in October of that year, resigned the post of professor at the Technical University of Lisbon.

Also involved in technical journals, Mathematical Gazette, Seara Nova, Apex and Economy Magazine.

In 1943 he became president of the Portuguese Society of Mathematics.

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Visit the Palace of Matos Azambuja - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

The Palace of Matos Azambuja or house of the Arches, as is commonly known, is a noble building situated in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception of Vila Viçosa County.
It is located near the palace, the convent of the Augustinian Convent of Chagas where the Pousada D. John IV, the Shrine of Our Lady of Conception of Vila Viçosa, and do Castelo Vila Viçosa.
It was built in 1599 by nobles who were possibly related to the House of Braganza, as indicated by its proximity to the Ducal Palace.

Visit the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa - Our Lady of Conception

The Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, located in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception, is an important monument situated in the Palace Square of the Alentejo town of the district of Evora. Was for centuries the seat of the most serene house of Braganza, an important noble family founded in the fifteenth century, which became the ruling house in Portugal, while on December 1, 1640 the 8th Duke of Braganza was proclaimed King of Portugal (João IV).
The work, led by Jaime, started in 1501 and this time the cloister and the chapel area and the existing rooms of the Armory.
The 5th Duke, D., Theodosius I named Constable of the kingdom, sent in 1535 to expand the Palace for the lavish feasts of the royal marriage in 1537, the Duke built the imposing facade of the palace, clad in marble, Italian style, which today we can admire.
The Palace has a large collection of works of art (paintings, furniture, sculpture, etc. ..), and particularly the noble halls of the first floor, examples of which are the rooms of the Medusa, the Dukes (with pictures of all the dukes up the eighteenth century) on the ceiling) and Hercules, many of them ennobled with beautiful fireplaces of carved marble. Remain particularly vivid in the memory palace of the last two reigns (the result of special predilection that he had the sovereign), as can be seen in the royal chambers and countless examples of the artistic work of King Carlos (watercolor and pastel). The kitchen has one of the largest collections of batteries, kitchen copper. Also important to highlight the Library (with copies very precious) and the armory. The former stables is installed one section of the National Coach Museum, where among other coaches, you can admire the landau carrying the Royal Family on the regicide.

Visit the Museum of Marble - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

The Marble Museum, located in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception, is housed in the station's railways, railway, a building dating from 1904. Building secular highlight the beautiful tile panels that evoke landscapes and corners of urban Alentejo Vila Viçosa, providing a unique beauty to the building.
The Marble Museum offers visitors valuable information about past and present of an activity dating back to Roman times. The extraction processing of marble, through the presentation of objects and tools used.
The visit starts in Ruivina room, a space where different elements are presented related to natural stone. There, through various information panels, visitors will learn the entire process of formation of the rock.
There are also various objects and tools used in quarries and processing units, which offer the possibility of meeting spot, the technological evolution that has marked activity over time (White Room).
In another phase of the visit are revealed as samples of the marble polished and ready for marketing as well as different parts worked by skilled hands of men. The art of sculpting stone also talk when referring to works of art created in the Sculpture Symposium held in Vila Viçosa, exposed on the outside of the museum.
In the final phase of this journey, the visitor is invited to watch the video "Vila Viçosa ... town of Marble, "produced by the Department of Geosciences, University of Evora. A job that allows you to consolidate the knowledge acquired throughout the visit and that tells multiple aspects of local culture.

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Visit the Church of the Augustins - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

Augustin Church, located in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa) was founded in the thirteenth century, was rebuilt in the seventeenth century. It is a beautiful baroque facade a little heavy but impressive, flanked by two soaring bell towers.

This Church is classified as a National Monument.

Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

The church of Our Lady of Conception, located in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa), is a Renaissance work, with three naves and five spans, which preserves the Gothic statue of Our Lady of Conception, patron saint of Portugal, D.Crowned John IV in 1646 as Queen

Visit the Statue of public Hortensia Castro - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

The Statue of public Hortense de Castro, located in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception, is a tribute to Évora Évora 1548 1595 was one of the most notable and notorious figures of Portuguese humanism born in Vila Viçosa and in 1548 and died in 1595 in Evora .

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Visit the Convent of Chagas de Cristo - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

The Convent of the Stigmata of Christ, located in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception, a religious house was founded in 1514 by D. Jaime, 4. Duke of Braganza.
Later, the monastery was handed over to the nuns of the female order of Santa Clara.
The patronage of the monastery remained in the House of Braganza to the nineteenth century, when it was annexed by the National Treasury. Later, King Carlos would come back to buy it for the House of Braganza. In 1932, the exiled Don Manuel II gave the monastery to the Archbishop of Evora. Its facilities were used for various purposes and are currently undergoing major restoration and reintegration.
The main portal of the church is located on the side wall, a space that takes the greatest architectural role. Various factors and uneven forming its structure. The site reveals a language consisting of Renaissance pilasters flanking a round arch, marked by a pediment highlighted the corners and medallions anthropomorphic. Laterally it must be a rectangular picture window. On the opposite side, the body of the choir and nave is marked by two monumental arches dividing buttress blind. Contiguous stands the tower's four bells, surmounted by vertical hexagonal spire and marked by four pinnacles.
The craft, unique and wide, has an ogival ribbed vaults coverage and artisans, are joining in the art Manueline and revealing a colorful decoration emblematic of classicist Franciscan phytomorphic surrounded by grounds, and small zoomorphic heads of angels. The walls are covered with tiles to the seventeenth century, enhancing the beauty of paintings telling the story of the life of S. Francis of Assisi. Within the nave there are four gilded altars, the two side-seventeenth century, while the other side are the work of the eighteenth century baroque and are framed by ashlars tiles.
The triumphal arch of the chancel is framed with classical motifs in white marble, with coverage of the headboard made by Manueline polinervurada vault. In the nineteenth century, the walls and ceiling of the chancel received neoclassical paintings. The altarpiece is gilded seventeenth century, featuring a screen with the episode of "Incredulity of St. Thomas, in addition to a triangular shrine with a relief of the" Resurrection of Christ. "
The most amazing architectural details of the monastery are revealed in two choirs. The Chapel of St. John the Baptist - showing her beautiful sixteenth-century altarpiece of "St. John on Patmos" and good notes of tiles and frescoes on the vault - connects to the sacristy and cloister, starting from this courtyard access to the amazing chorus down - the pantheon of the most distinguished ladies of the Order of Poor Clares and the House of Braganza, under which lies the crypt of Abbesses. This work is lower choir of the seventeenth century and has vaulted Manueline edge, supported by the central column, the decoration rocaille altered structure of the second half of the eighteenth century.
Access to the monumental choir is conducted by a lavishly decorated antecoro. This wing of the convent is larger than the church, and is covered by a barrel vault with painted baroque motifs of the seventeenth century.
The cloister of the sixteenth century was reformulated in the following century. The claustra consists of two floors and each gallery is divided into five legs buttresses. The ground floor is populated by a double colonnade of round arches, while the upper floor is a rhythmic double rectangular openings separated by pilasters and marble. At the top of the cloister were built other facilities, while the inner space of the galleries has cloistered graves revealing small chapels, altars, murals and other decorations.

Today this monastery serves as the Inn.

Visit the Castle Vila Viçosa - Our Lady of Conception

The Castle of Vila Viçosa, who was once a Moorish stronghold, located in the Parish of Our Lady. In a place where there was a Moorish stronghold, D. Dinis built a mighty castle and a city wall around the whole village, then expanded by D. Fernando with two doors. In the seventeenth century, the castle was again strengthened with walls 4-5 meters, which helped stem the Spanish army.

Visit the Chapel of St. John the Baptist's Carrasqueira - Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa)

The Chapel of St. John the Baptist's Carrasqueira, located in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Vila Viçosa) is also called the 'Chapel of St. John the Baptist's Carrasqueira'

Visit the Ribeira d'Asseca - Pitfalls

Ribeira d'Asseca, which traverses the Town of Pitfalls is a tributary of the Guadiana River.

Visit the Roman Bridge Pitfalls