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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)

The Convent of Christ, historical monument in the city of Tomar, located in the parish of St. John the Baptist, classified by UNESCO as World Heritage, belonged to the Knights Templar. It was founded in 1160 by the Grand Master of the Templars, gift Gualdim Parents, the Convent of Christ still has memories of these monks and knights of the heirs of his office, the Order of Christ, which made ​​this building their headquarters. It is a suburban construction, implemented on top of a hill overlooking the plain where the city extends. It is surrounded by the walls of the Castle of Tomar and the forest fence. Today is a cultural, tourist and even devotional. The architecture shares traits Romanic, Gothic, Manueline, Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Visit the Church of San Pedro de Canaferrim - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The ancient church of San Pedro de Canaferrim in some of the Moorish Castle, Parish of Saint Peter of Penaferrim (Sintra), will most likely coeval with charter granted by King Afonso Henriques in 1154 and have been the first parish Sintra. In 1493, however, was already abandoned.
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.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Visit the village of Sintra - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The town of Sintra, which belongs to the town of Sao Martinho (Sintra), a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its romantic architecture of the nineteenth century.
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."

Friday, April 15, 2011

Visit the palace and Regaleira Estate Millions - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Regaleira Estate, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra) in the historical center of Sintra, classified World Heritage by UNESCO, was built in the early twentieth century, the romantic ideal, this fascinating collection of buildings in the middle of forest, is the result of achieving the dreams of its owner, Antonio Augusto Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920), combined with the talent of the Italian architect-designer Luigi Manini (1848-1936).
Fifth Regaleira presents a magnificent landscape with gardens and buildings, which highlights the Palace of the Million and Holy Trinity Chapel
The culmination of the visit to the Fifth Regaleira, we must rely on the adventure of the Knights Templar, or the ideals of the Master Masons, to descend into the pit initiation by a huge spiral staircase. And, deep down with your feet on an eight-pointed star, is like being immersed in the womb of Mother Earth. Then, we can only go through the dark labyrinth of caves, to reach the light, reflected in lakes amazing.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Visit Geira (XVIII Via Antonino di Itinerary) - Land Bouro

Via Nova known Geira XVIII or via the Itinerary of Antoninus, is a Roman Road linking two major cities in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (the former Bracara Augusta, now the city of Braga, and the ancient city of Augusta Asturica today Astorga, in Spain.) This road connected the two major cities in a journey of 215 miles, about 318 km. The Geira or Via Nova opened, probably in the late first century AD, around the year 80, under the auspices of Titus and Dominiciano. It is believed that construction of the Via Nova reinforced the Roman road network, has given most mobile armies, led a reorganization of the territory and led to increased mining activity and transition of these assets (especially the movement of the gold mines of Las Medulas, set World Heritage of Humanity).

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.

In the Land of Bouro Geira covers the parishes of Souto, Libra, Chorense, Vilar, Charmoim, Covide, Campo do Geres and arrives finally at Portela do Homem, thence into Spanish territory.

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.