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Showing posts with label World Heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Heritage. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Visit the Convent of Christ - St. John the Baptist (Tomar)

Etiquetas:
Convents,
Gualdim Parents,
Santarém District,
St. John the Baptist (Tomar),
Tomar,
World Heritage
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Visit the Church of San Pedro de Canaferrim - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

They are two separate buildings, both invoking the Guardian of Heaven, distinguished only by invoking such a place name that carried. Therefore, it is noted that the purpose still current form - Penaferrim - sees itself as a modern way, certainly influenced by Pena ("hill", "end"), the former toponym Canaferrim (this certificate in the eighteenth century and still today associated with the towering Romanesque), which, in turn, derived from the medieval toponym Calaferrim (Arabic qala'â), whose meaning can be "town situated on the plateau or sheer cliff. "
These are the ruins of the dilapidated church of San Pedro de Canaferrim comprising the list of World Heritage property.
Etiquetas:
Churches,
Lisbon District,
San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra),
Sintra,
World Heritage
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Visit the village of Sintra - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

Sintra has become a major tourist attraction especially for the fabulous Pena Palace (XIX century) and the Moorish Castle, with stunning views of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, and the summer residence of the kings of Portugal Palácio Nacional de Sintra. The Serra de Sintra, one of the largest parks in the Lisbon area is also a major tourist attraction.
In 1809, Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, "I just observe that the village of Sintra, Estremadura is the most beautiful in the world."
Etiquetas:
Lisbon District,
Sao Martinho (Sintra),
Sintra,
World Heritage
Friday, April 15, 2011
Visit the palace and Regaleira Estate Millions - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

Fifth Regaleira presents a magnificent landscape with gardens and buildings, which highlights the Palace of the Million and Holy Trinity Chapel

Etiquetas:
Chapels,
Lisbon District,
palace,
Sao Martinho (Sintra),
Sintra,
Thursday,
World Heritage
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Visit Geira (XVIII Via Antonino di Itinerary) - Land Bouro

Via Nova knows a diagonal route that links the triangle of administrative policy and road established by Augustus, with vertices in the three cities: Bracara Augusta, Lucus Augusti and Asturica Augusta.
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The archaeological remains in the Land of Bouro are impressive: there are over 150 miliaris, which marked the miles on Via and gave to it, the traveler, the distance to the nearest town. In addition to the milestones in Land Bouro is possible to discern traces of Roman Bridges (on the Ribeiro da Maceira, Ribeira do Forno, Ribeiro Monsoon and Ponte de S. Miguel, Man of the River), shod with run-marks, quarries where milestones were extracted and stone blocks to build bridges. Start also to be discovered archaeological remains of small indigenous settlements or support the construction of Via, which attest to the importance of Via.
Etiquetas:
Braga,
Bridges,
Campo do Geres,
Charmoim,
Chorense,
Covide,
Distrito de Braga,
Lands Bouro,
River Man,
Rivers,
Souto,
St. John's Balance,
Vilar,
World Heritage
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