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Monuments in Portel
Capela de Santo António
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Praça Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, 10
7220-375, Portel
Chapel dating from the 16TH century and adapted the allocation of Civil and building Records in the 19th century. In the interior, highlighted by a set of tiles in the body of the ship.
Ermidas de São Pedro
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Portel
7220, Portel
Set of two shrines of pilgrimage of Mannerist and Baroque, Renaissance architecture, being the oldest of circular and longitudinal plant again. The first chapel was built in the early years of the 16th century and the second was built in 1624.
Igreja Paroquial de São Bartolomeu do Outeiro
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Largo da Igreja, 29
7220-526, São Bartolomeu do Outeiro
Mannerist architecture and Baroque church consists of a nave with barrel vault edge coverage in the nave and dome in the chancel. Emphasis on the pediment of the façade and the side chapels with altars in carved and gilded.
Igreja de Vera Cruz de Marmelar
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Largo da Igreja
7220-561, Portel
This imposing building from the 16th century was built above previous constructions from the 10th/ 11th and 13th centuries from each there are still some traces on the apse and apse chapels. It still preserves a niche with Visigoth decoration. On the main façade there is a mitre portico with a semicircular pediment which underwent mannerist improvements and two towers with four floors in which walls it is possible to admire some openings finished with baroque bell ringer compositions.
Convento de São Francisco dos Capuchos da Piedade
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Travessa do Convento dos Capuchos
7220, Portel
Convent of Franciscan architecture founded in 1547 by Dom Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza. Suffered a general reform in 1726 and, in 1834, was transformed into a landfill agricultural implements. Currently, lies in State and private ground vacant.
Casa Nobre da Família Gil Borja de Meneses
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Praça da República
7220-374, Portel
Architecture building johannite season Manor built in the 18th century, consisting of two floors and with family crest surmounting the main door. All the Windows of the upper floor have a small balcony. He currently works as a nursing home.
Castelo de Portel
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Rua dos Arcos - Praça Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira
7220-375, Portel
Important example of military architecture, this castle was built in the 13th century. Has the form of an irregular Octagon and the keep, with rooms covered with gothic vaults, is of marble. Currently, the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza and Mayors, the Manueline-mudéjar Chapel. The residential houses, barracks and military warehouses, in Plaza de Armas, are in ruins.
Igreja Paroquial de Nossa Senhora das Neves
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Amieira
7220, Amieira
Church of manueline and Baroque architecture of the original building only the chancel remain and the elevations on the side of the ship. In 1534 was destroyed by order of the cardinal Infante Dom Afonso, Bishop of Évora, is in ruins, building up then a new.
Igreja de São Lourenço de Alqueva
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Rua de Moura, 21
7220-014, Alqueva
Baroque church of longitudinal plan consists of a nave and a chancel with barrel vault roof. Highlighting two fonts, one manueline and the other late-Baroque.
Igreja de São Brás e Santo Amaro / Ermida de São Brás e Santo Amaro
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Portel
7220, Portel
Longitudinal plant Church consists of a chancel with vaulted ceiling and a sacristy of square plan and hemispherical dome ceiling. Was built, probably in 1580 and, in 1853, was established in annex a cemetery.