Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Ceira (Coimbra)

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, located in the Parish of Ceira, is a revivalist church with a longitudinal plan, consisting of a single nave and a chancel, with a low vaulted roof in the nave and a cradle vault in the chapel. mor. It was built in the late 19th century on the site of an earlier temple. Inside, highlight the sacristy and two tombstones.

Visit St. Stephen's Church - Viegas Castle (Coimbra)

The church of Santo Estêvão, located in the parish of Castelo Viegas, has a beautiful landscape, distributed in staggered volumes consisting of the temple and the churchyard, with steps and terraces thrown on the slope. Of very simple typology, it has a single nave, covered with a wooden ceiling, and a rectangular chancel with a cradle vault, opened by a perfect triumphal arch. The two side chapels are covered with stone vaults, and in the chapel on the side of the Gospel stands the back wall, lined with nineteenth-century blue and white tiles of regional manufacture, with scenes from the Life of the Virgin. In the main façade, with triangular gable, looms the main portal, with a straight span, with a simple curved pediment surmounted by a small round window. More interesting is the south façade, with a similar portal, but topped by a raised bust of the Eternal Father. Originally a bell tower was erected on the façade, already replaced in the twentieth century by the present bell tower.

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Visit the Almalaguês Mother Church

The Almalaguês Mother Church is a 16th and 18th century Baroque building, restored in the 20th century.
In the nave there are two chapels, the Sacrament, with three sections and decorated with coffins, and the one of the baptistery. Of note is the remarkable sculptural, eighteenth-century sacred way and, in the baptismal chapel, the Crucified Christ in wood, of baroque nature.

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Visit the Chapel of Mercy - Sarzedas

The Chapel of Mercy, located in the parish of Sarzedas, was built in the 19th century. XVIII. It is a baroque temple of sober lines, of composite longitudinal plan, with nave, narrow chancel, sacristy and bell tower. West facing façade, bounded by pilasters on plinth, topped by pinnacles, flanking a triangular pediment. Shattered arched portal topped by a curved cornice. Shoulderpieces decorated by the threshold by two scrolls. Bell tower with granite belfry, in full arch, framed by volutes.
Inside a single ship. On the Epistle side, a lectern supported by a granite console and a wooden guard. Next to it, a wooden corbis-based image, matched on the opposite side. Side altar framed by perfect arch with protruding imposing and decorated closing stone. On the Gospel side stands an altarpiece with similar characteristics. Triumphal arch of perfect back with protruding imposes. Lower and narrow chancel, lit by two windows, with granite flagstone floors. Tripartite ceilings in painted wood, the chancel in blue tone with stars. Late-Baroque gilded altarpiece painted white with gold accents. Flanked by the insignia of Christ's martyrdom.

Visit the Church of St. Francis - St. Vincent da Beira

The São Francisco church, located in the parish of São Vicente da Beira, should date back to the 18th century. The plant develops longitudinally, articulating single nave with narrower chancel and an annex. The façade is defined laterally by stonework wedges and topped off by a cornice that accompanies the gable end, and a small bell tower overlaps in the center. The perfect arched main portal corresponds in the second register to a bay window.
Inside, the perfect back triumphal arch, the carved high altar with images and the tall wooden choir stand out.

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Visit the Church of Our Lady of the High Heavens - Slate (Castelo Branco)

The Church of Our Lady of the High Heavens, located in the Parish of Lousa, is a solid building consisting of a single nave separated from the main chapel by a perfect back arch, a North side sacristy, a new sacristy, room on the South side and the bell tower contiguous with the front.
The front is beautiful and elegant. To the center of the facade the portal of great dimensions and suitable window.
The connection and decoration of these two architectural elements is made by remarkable work in granite stonework carved in baroque style with branches and voluptas that frame the phrase "HAEC EST DOMUS DEI ET PORTA CELI" (This is the house of God and the door of Heaven) .
The interior of the temple is torn in its side walls by six windows, two in the main chapel and four symmetrically implanted in the body of the church. The access to the temple is made by ample portico in the front or by the door of the South side, called "small door".
In the Body of the Church the four altars are highlighted: the one of São Miguel and the one of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of the left side and those of the Calvary and of Our Lady of the Rosary of the right side.
The carved wooden pulpit is supported by granite cantilever.
The Baptistery of vaulted stonework was built by breaking the wall on the south side by arch in stonework.
The Baptismal Fountain is of two pieces of granite stonework; the crown piece is decorated in ribbed cuffs.
There is still in the body of the church the high choir supported by two elegant columns.
The main chapel is marked by the image of the patron saint of polychrome wood in the center of the retable in a large niche.
The retable in brown wood is decorated with marbled in several shades and with some golden carving to the taste of the late Baroque.
The statue of Saint Joseph on the left and the image of a saintly monastic bishop are bordered on the image of the patron saint.
The posterior altar in fine granite is decorated in the base that supports it with eucharistic motifs, work of the place Jose Pinto.
The vault of full cradle is painted wood: to the medallion center with the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament surrounded by others of smaller dimension with the evangelists.
The sacristy of the North elevation has in the interior a beautiful arcaz of the XVIII century and still the fountain of two spouts. Worthy of record is the joinery work employed at the door that gives access to the main chapel.
The bell tower, built safely after the church, has engraved on one of its wedges the date of 1845 which seems quite realistic as the date of its construction.

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Visit the Clock Tower - Castelo Branco

The Clock Tower, located in the parish of Castelo Branco, is an inescapable element of the landscape of the city, visible from various places.
Its origin is linked to the process of expansion of the city and, consequently, to the extension of the limits of the Wall, since its location coincides with an old tower of the outer wall, adapted to the present functions during the nineteenth century.
The constant visual presence in the daily life of the albicastrenses and the characteristic hourly touches are an indispensable companion not only for the inhabitants of the Historic Zone of the City, but for all the residents of the city or of the visitors who, when beating of the bells of the bells, easily leave transport to times gone by and, surely, more nostalgic.

Visit the Church of Saint John the Baptist - Rio de Onor

The Church of St. John the Baptist, located in the Parish of Rio de Onor, is a 16th century building. The triangular pediment is truncated by the double bell and topped by a clock and cross.
This church is similar, on the outside, to its neighboring Church of Rihonor de Castilla, located about 500 meters. This similarity confirms the fact that these two villages are considered as one, in such a way that it is customary to designate Rio de Onor de Cima (the Spanish part) and Rio de Onor de Baixo (the Portuguese part)

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Quintela de Lampaças

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption is a fairly large and sober-looking church with a typically "bragancy" taste: in the frontier bison there is only a simple and smooth round arched porch (now almost overcome by technical difficulties in its execution ), contrasting the more or less robust staves with the remaining apparatus, small and irregular (in the shale or local gap); to the top, the invariable double-bell tower. Flanking this temple stands out a battered, sunlit house, with beautiful windows framed in a baroque and seventeenth-century taste.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption - Deilão

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, located in the Parish of Deilão, has the tympanum, flanked by pinnacles, is interrupted by the double bell tower with an external access staircase. At the side of the church is the cemetery, old and small, as is usual to be found near many churches of smaller towns.
Inside the church we can admire golden and polychrome altarpieces.

Visit the Parish Church of Vilaça

The Parish Church of Vilaça, dates from 1899. It has a three-story bell tower with clock. Initially it had the shape of T, having recently been changed to quadrangular format.