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Monuments in Lousã
Casa dos Salazares / Casa da Viscondessa do Espinhal / Palácio dos Viscondes do Espinhal
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Rua Viscondessa do Espinhal
3200-257, Lousã
Building of 18th and 19th century neoclassical décor. The central, high body with another floor is topped by stone and crowned by pinnacles.
Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Piedade
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Cabo do Soito
3200, Lousã
Sanctuary consisting of four chapels: Capela de São João (15th century), the chapel of the Lord of agony (19TH century), the chapel of Nossa senhora da Piedade (17th century as probable) and Senhor dos Aflitos Chapel. These chapels were built one at a time, between the 15th and 19th centuries. Its interiors retain sculptures, like that of St. John the Evangelist in painted limestone and the Senhora da Piedade, the latter of which usually goes out in days of procession.
Castelo da Lousã / Castelo de Arouce
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EM580
3200, Lousã
Castle located on the outskirts of the village of Lousã mountain countryside. Consists of the donjon, torn by loopholes for a small irregular fence and some cubelos. Its entrance is flanked by two turrets and three more are distributed along the walls. The whole Castle is in Silurian shale, rock of the region, except the door trim of the keep, which is white stoneware. During the Reconquista, this castle was assumed as a strategic point, locking the Moorish incursions from the vale do Zêzere.
Igreja Paroquial de Vilarinho
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Rua da Sé - EN342
3200, Vilarinho
This church is remarkable for its reddish stonework in red sand from Alveite, for the altar in baroque style and for the images from the XV and XVIII centuries.
Edifício da Câmara Municipal da Lousã / Paços do Concelho da Lousã
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Rua Doutor João Santos
3200, Lousã
Building revival of sober lines, completed in 1934. Has a quadrangular plant, throughout the three floors, with facades circumscribed by apilastrados corners of giant order, crowned by urns, and topped off at frieze and cornice.
Casa Maria de Leça
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Vale Escuro
3200, Foz de Arouce
The House that has the particularity to have spread by tiles with verses inscribed.
Ponte da EN236
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EN236
3200, Lousã
Old bridge, built in stone. It is surrounded by vegetation.
Ponte da EN236
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EN236
3200, Lousã
Old bridge, built in stone. It is surrounded by vegetation.
Lavadouro de Vilarinho
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Rua do Passal
3200, Vilarinho
Space dating back to 1954, where formerly the washerwomen wash the clothes. Nowadays it is mostly used as a watering hole for animals.