Visit Cernache Mother Church

The Maternal Church of Cernache is Renaissance and Baroque founded in the thirteenth century and rebuilt in the sixteenth century, taking advantage of the previous sacristy and chancel. The bell tower was built only in the 19th century. It has a longitudinal plan with a single nave, a chancel and a bell tower and sacristy adossadas.

Visit the Parish Church of Brasfemes

The Parish Church of Brasfemes was rebuilt in the mid-eighteenth century. The tower and small readjusted things like a simple toilet, dating from 1677, are preserved from a brotherhood's vestry. The tower is isolated from the back of the headboard. Square, domed roof, from the 17th century, with minor renovations in the 18th century. The façade features eighteenth-century, harmonious lines, piled wedges, dominated by lightweight ballot boxes, and cut gables at the base. The door has curved lintel, molded jambs and the headboard has curved lugs. The oculus is quadrilobated and rich in composition, arranged in a complete myxean cornice frame. Its interior is simple, with a high choir, based on a broken stone arch. The main and collateral altarpieces are of the current type of the second half of the 18th century. In the main there is a small throne, formerly covered by a screen representing the Baptism of Christ, which is today in the nave of the church.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of Conception - Assafarge

The Church of Our Lady of Conception, located in the Parish of Assafarge, is a baroque longitudinal plan consisting of a nave, a narrower chancel, confronting side chapels, a front sacristy, an annex and a tower adossados. It was probably built in the 16th century and later renovated in the second half of the 18th century. Highlight for the 16th century font and the 18th century bell tower.

Visit the Chapel of the Coimbra Military Hospital - Almedina (Coimbra)

Visit the Church of St. Dominic - Sarzedas

Visit the Church of Lisga - Sarzedas

Visit the Belfry of Sarzedas

The bell tower of Sarzedas with its bell tower is what remains of the old church on Outeiro.

Visit the Chapel of Pereiros - São Vicente da Beira

Visit the Clock Tower - Straight

Visit the Church of St. Lawrence - Povoa de Rio de Moinhos

Visit the Tower of the Clock of Escalos de Cima

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 Castelo Branco Castle

The Castle of Castelo Branco, also known locally as Castle of the Templários, is located in the parish of Castelo Branco.
It was a strategic Iberian castle and was part of the Middle Ages called the Linha da Raia or Linha do Tejo. Severely damaged over the centuries, the castle of the Templars remains the most important historical-military record of the city.
As soon as the Templars took possession of Moncarche in 1209, they soon made plans for the construction of the castle. The Castle of Castelo Branco dates from that time.
From the castle of the Templars a few elements remain, though few are original.
The Torreão Românico is of the oldest type, its thick paqredes have frontal and lateral views showing a practical intention of defense in coordination with the other turrets. This turret is perhaps the oldest architectural piece in Castelo Branco.
The Gothic Tower or Tower of the Templars was nothing more than the facade of the palace of the alcaldes and commendadores. The present windows with quinine lintels have little to do with the originals, even with a first Gothic change. This torte is the Ex-libris of Castelo Branco.
The Bow is the original. This arch was the door that separated the public courtyard and courtyard from the palace. Originally the two courtyards would be at the same level, which is supposed to have been lower than the current one.

Visit the Church of Padrão - Almaceda

Visit the Church of São Sebastião - Almaceda

The Church of São Sebastião, located in the parish of Almaceda, is a 16th century foundation, of which nothing survives, reformed in the second half of the century. XVIII and receiving renovations in 1962. It is of rectangular plan, composed of nave, chancel, annex and bell tower attached with different roofs in false vaults of wooden cradle and illuminated by windows in arch shot. Main facade finished in gable, with vains torn in axis, with axial portal of straight cock and perfect back window. Interior with coro-alto, based on corbels and columns integrating sinks of holy water, of probable eighteenth-century work, reformed in the 60's, with the construction of a new structure in concrete beam. It has a baptistery at the base of the tower, transformed into a confessional, a pulpit with access through the wall, a side chapel containing altarpieces decorated with nineteenth-century work, a triumphal arch flanked by retabular chapels arranged at an angle, eighteenth century, following a late-baroque language. Main altarpiece of straight body and five axles, the three central rococo carvings, most recently enlarged.

Visit the Church of Our Lady of the Conception - Alcains

The Church of Our Lady of the Conception, located in the Parish of Alcains, dates from the mid-sixteenth century. It is a large church and features a Pombaline front.

Visit the Military Museum of Bragança - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Military Museum of Bragança, located in the parish of Santa Maria, occupies all floors of the Tower of Menagem of the castle of Bragança, with a total of 165 exhibition halls, arose in 1929 for the desire to preserve the memory of the military experiences of the city. Many of its pieces were donated by the inhabitants themselves and tell a story of the evolution of light weaponry between the twelfth and twentieth centuries.

Visit the Church of Santa Ana - Vimieiro (Braga)

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.

Visit the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte - Tenões (Braga)

The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte, located in the parish of Tenões, is dedicated to Senhor Bom Jesus and is constituted by an architectural-landscaped set composed by a church, the staircase where the Via Sacra do Bom Jesus is developed, a garden area Bom Jesus, some hotels and a funicular.

His peculiar disposition was the inspiration for other constructions, such as the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remedies in Lamego and the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos in the city of Congonhas in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

It is classified as Property of Public Interest.

It is believed that the primitive occupation of this site dates back to the beginning of the 14th century when someone will have erected a cross on the top of Mount Espinho. In the year 1373 a hermitage is already mentioned in the place, under the invocation of the Holy Cross. This hermitage will have been attached to the parish of Tenões.

Local of devotion and pilgrimage of the people of the region of Braga, in 1494 was erguida a second hermitage. A third hermitage was erected in 1522.

In 1629 a group of devotees constituted the Confraternity of Bom Jesus do Monte, being built a chapel where was placed an image of Christ Crucified, besides houses for shelter of the pilgrims, and the first chapels of Passos of the Passion, in the form of small niches.

From 1722, the then Archbishop of Braga, D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles, conceived and initiated a great project that would lead to the present Sanctuary.

This church was designed by the architect Carlos Amarante, by order of the then Archbishop of Braga, D. Gaspar de Bragança, to replace the previous one, erected by D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles. His works began on June 1, 1784, and were completed in 1811.

The churchyard, also designed by Amarante, features eight statues representing characters who intervened in the condemnation, passion and death of Christ.

The church has a plant in the shape of a Latin cross, constituting one of the first neoclassical buildings in the country. Its façade is flanked by two towers, surmounted by a triangular pediment.