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Monuments in Marco de Canaveses
Homenagem a Avelino Ferreira Torres
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Vinheiros
4630, Soalhães
Monument in honor of the former President of the Chamber, Avelino Ferreira Torres.
Memorial de Alpendorada
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Rua do Memorial
4575-032, Memorial
This monument was formed by a perfectly vaulted arch, above which it is placed a tomblike arch. According to the legend the tomb keeps the mortal remains from D. Souzinho Àlvares, a warrior from the Reconquest period.
Homenagem ao Bombeiro
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Avenida Doutor Artur Melo e Castro
4630, Fornos
Statue of tribute to peacekeepers.
Ponte de Pombal
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Sobretâmega
4635, Sobretâmega
Narrow bridge inserted in rural surroundings. Has only a simple arc.
Igreja Matriz de Paços de Gaiolo
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Paços de Gaiolo
4630, Paços de Gaiolo
In this temple with Tower and watch highlights the main Chapel, lined with 17th-century tiles and gilded.
Moinho de Vento de Penha de Longa
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Rua do Moinho de Vento
4625, Penha Longa
Old windmill already degraded by time.
Igreja do Salvador de Tabuado
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Rua Igreja
4635-449, Tabuado
It stands out the frontage flanked by the campanile, the doorway with three archivolts which arches settle in columns with decorated capitals with zoo and fitomorpchic motifs. IT still maintains the corbels. The inside displays a rectangular nave and behead. The triumphal arch is in double archivolt and worked capitals. It is also worthy to mention, behind the neoclassic altarpiece, a remarkable frescoes from the 15th century.
Igreja de Santo André de Vila Boa de Quires
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4635-709, Vila Boa de Quires
This Romanic temple has altarpieces in neoclassic carving. On the inside, improved on the 19th century, it stands out the Romanic arch from the main chapel that settles in columns with decorated capitals, of which has mermaids. The nave walls are covered with sixteen hundreds glazed tiles.
Igreja de Santo Isidoro de Canaveses
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Largo Padre Manuel Gomes
4635-328, Lugar do Cruzeiro
The Church of San Isidoro is one of the most interesting and best preserved testimonies to Romanesque of the current municipality of Marco de Canaveses. This church, together with that of Tabuado, standardizes the Romanesque Lower Tâmega, both in the Organization of space as in the arrangement of the elevations, in the typology of openings and in like rank in rosettes. This church conserves one of the most interesting murals produced in Portugal in the first half of the 16th century.