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Cultural Centers in Beja
Pax Julia - Teatro Municipal de Beja
- art
Largo de São João
7800-416, Beja
The Municipal Theatre - Pax Julia has the biggest playhouse of the south of Portugal. Besides music, theatre and dance shows, it is the stage of the most varied activities: cinema, conferences, congresses, exhibitions, literary assemblies, café-concert, etc. It offers a great auditorium, a studio-room, a foyer, a cafeteria, technical areas, dressing rooms and several private rooms.
Biblioteca Municipal de Beja José Saramago
- heritage
Rua Luís de Camões
7800-508, Beja
Municipal library named after the Nobel of literature, José Saramago. The library has several sectors: adult, juvenile, multimedia (13 computers with internet); audiovisual, periodical; pedagogical resources centre (backup to schools by lending materials.
Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal de Beja José Saramago
- art
Rua Luís de Camões
7800-508, Beja
Small amphitheatre used for varied cultural events.
Núcleo Museológico da Rua do Sembrano
- heritage
Rua do Sembrano
7800, Beja
A set of archaeological vestiges of great importance to the city's history. Here one can find vestiges of the medieval and modern ages, as well as of the roman period and of the iron age.
Museu Regional de Beja / Museu Rainha Dona Leonor
- heritage
Largo da Conceição
7800-131, Beja
A museum located in the Convent of Our Lady of Conceição, founded in 1459 by the infants Dom Fernando e Dona Brites. A special note to the 17th century Portuguese tiles, the one from Seville of the 16th century and the baroque dome of the Chapter Room.
Museu Botânico de Beja
- heritage
Escola Superior Agrária de Beja - Rua Pedro Soares s/n, Apartado 6158
7801-908, Beja
A small botanical museum where one can view different exhibitions throughout the year, related to economical botanics or ethnobotanics. In that manner, one can get acquainted with the usage of the plants, as well as spices, fibres and colouring agents, gums, resins, aromatic and medicinal herbs, oil seeds, cereals, seeds and exotic fruits, ornamental plants and psycho-active plants.
Museu Jorge Vieira / Casa das Artes
- heritage
Casa do Governador, Largo Dr. Lima Faleiro
7800-266, Beja
A museum with a permanent exhibition of scultures by Jorge Vieira. Guided tours under previous appointment, painting, clay and drawing ateliers, also under appointment, for children from kindergarten to the 6th year. It has two rooms for temporary exhibitions, a formation roo, a documentation centre, a cafeteria and temporary residence for artists.
Galeria Municipal dos Escudeiros
- art
Rua dos Escudeiros, 30
7800-494, Beja
Space that shelters temporary exhibitions.
Praça de Touros José Varela Crujo
- heritage
Largo Francisco Mendes
7800-298, Beja
Plaza de Toros de Beja.