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Castelo de Santa Maria da Feira
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Alameda Doutor Roberto Vaz Oliveira
4520-141, Santa Maria da Feira
Santa Maria da Feira gothic Castle is often described as imposing and rigorous. We can emphasize its highest towers with turrets and four pinnacles garnishing the tower. The walls are protected with machicolation and battlements. On the outside it is worth to visit Nossa Senhora da Encarnação Chapel and The Capelania House both in Baroque style. The population slowly moved to the Castle surroundings attracted by the products market that there used to be made, originating the current city.
Castelo de Seda / Fortificações de Seda
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Escadinhas do Ribeirinho
7440-225, Seda
Urban fence built by King Afonso Henriques, in 1160, over traces of Roman occupation. It maintains three keeps, with the irregular termination of the structure being evident.
Castelo de São Filipe / Forte de São Filipe
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Estrada Castelo de São Filipe
2900, Setúbal
Located about 1 km from Setúbal, the fortress stands overlooking the sea. Without any type of Tower, the fortress ended inside a set of buildings, among which stand out the Governor's residence and the Church. This temple is coated, inside, with tile panels dated from 1736, representing scenes from the life of St. Philip.
Castelo de Vila Nova de Cerveira
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Largo de São Sebastião, 1
4920-264, Vila Nova de Cerveira
Located on a hill, this oval castle retains the curtain wall of the bastion of the angel São Miguel. It was built in 1320, by order of King Dinis, to defend the newly created village of Cerveira. Several monuments stand out from the intramural set, namely the pillory, the church and the chapel. The fortifications built in the 17th century were destroyed with urban growth. In the 19th century, the growth of the town sacrificed a large part of the fortification, with the Keep and the north wall disappearing. In the following century, after being classified as a National Monument, …
Castelo de Vila Verde dos Francos
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Rua Principal, 4
2580-442, Vila Verde dos Francos
According to historical documentation, it is a medieval lookout with subsequent amendments. Currently, there are only a few remains of the ancient castle.
Castelo do Portelo/ Coto de Sendim
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Sendim
5470-342, Padornelos
The castle of Portelo\/frontier lift was implemented in a dividing line of country, being most of the lot belonging to Portugal. On the West side are well visible remains of walls, with about 1 meter in height and 0.70 meters wide average; If the defense was natural. The castle was built on rocky hills from the top, where they observe nesting tears the lines of Defense. This castle, such as the Piconha, the de Montalegre, Monforte de Rio Frio and Keys was intended to defend the valleys of the Tâmega and Cávado therefore places open dry streak and difficult frontier …
Castelo do Sabugal e Restos da Muralha
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Largo de Santa Maria
6320-328, Sabugal
This fortification was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and later sent to enlarge by Dom Dinis. During that time some changes were made, Manueline which subsists the gate which gave access to the drawbridge. Still preserves the Alcazaba with the keep of pentagonal base, the Tower of the five Corners, protected by machicolations and faucets, and the waist of walls that surrounds the village. Emphasis the thickness and height of the curtains of the Alcazaba and the existence of the Barbican.
Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo
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Castelo Mendo
6355-051, Vilar Formoso
Architecture of religious type, consisting of chancel, nave, sacristy, belfry and side chapel. This is private and belongs to the family Pinto da Fonseca. This construction there are only ruins, but you can still see the square base of the pulpit and the respective ladder, the triumphal arch broken and, laterally, the tables of the side altars.
Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo
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Largo Coronel Morais Sarmento
2560, Torres Vedras
The façade displays some traces from a Romanic doorway which panels are ornate by two pigeons. The inside has one only nave standing out the baptismal font that has it origins on the fifteen hundreds period, the pulpit and the image from Santa Maria.
Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo
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Rua da Piscina
6000-776, Castelo Branco
Built, probably, in the XII century, it was rebuilt in the XIII century by the Templar, and suffered later various acts of vandalism, being reduced to ruins. It suffered successive interventions and is now a work mainly from the XIX century.