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Monuments in Murça
Estrada Romana e Ponte sobre o Rio Tinhela
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EN15
5090-138, Murça
Bridge with a single round arch.
Igreja Paroquial de Murça / Igreja de Santa Maria / Antiga Capela de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
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Praça 5 de Outubro, 1
5090-112, Murça
Church with baroque architecture with nave and chancel, sacristy and attached bell tower. Inside, it has a false barrel-vaulted, stucco roof, high choir, pulpits, and altarpieces in gilt and polychrome, Mannerist, aedicule type, the laterals and the chancel are baroque.
Capela da Misericórdia de Murça
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Rua Alfredo Pinto, 2
5090-115, Murça
Chapel built in 1692 where the carved stonework stands out. The portico is flanked by four very elaborate columns. On the top there is a niche with an image. The inside is composed of a nave, highlighting the altarpieces.
Pelourinho de Murça
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Praça 5 de Outubro, 10
5090-112, Murça
A contemporary of King Manuel I, who granted the town a new charter in 1512, and being one of the best preserved in Portugal, the Pillory is built on eight steps, has a spiral shaft topped by a capital with heraldic symbols and is topped by five spiral pinnacles.
Crasto de Palheiros
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Palheiros
5090-210, Palheiros
The Crasto de Palheiros, or Fragada do Castro, is an imposing quartzite ridge that was carved and built by the populations of that region of the Trás-os-Montes Hot Land between the beginning of the third millennium BC and present times.
Porca de Murça
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Largo 31 de Janeiro
5090-111, Murça
Shrouded in popular legends and its origin or purpose not known for certain, Porca de Murça (Murça´s Female Pig) is an unequivocal symbol of the town, even giving its name to well-known region's wines. It is a zoomorphic stone sculpture from protohistoric times and is thought to be a votive statue to sacred animals.
Igreja Paroquial de Jou / Igreja de Santo André
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Largo da Igreja
5090-074, Freiria
Church of mannerist architecture late-Baroque and neoclassical, with nave and chancel, with wooden ceilings. Features inside chorus-high built-in on the wall, confessionals, pulpit in the Gospel side, lateral revivalist retabulares structures, neoclassical side altarpieces and altarpiece-mor late Baroque.
Igreja Matriz de Vilares / Igreja da Senhora das Neves
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Largo da Igreja
5090-232, Vilares
18th century church with Bell Tower located near laterally. The interior features carved altarpieces painted and gilded.
Igreja Matriz de São Paulo
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Rua Direita
5090-210, Palheiros
Baroque church with the present interior altarpieces of late neoclassical style. The imaginary is recent production, with the exception of the Baroque image of our Lady of the Rosary.
Capela de Senhora da Piedade
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Largo da Igreja
5090-232, Vilares
Baroque chapel with main façade marked by broad range from perfect round. Is within a typology of chapels associated with the Calvary and the passion of Christ, with similar examples in the chapel of the bridge in Mondim de Basto, among others. The main altarpiece is vernacular.