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Museu Arqueológico de Barcelos / Paço dos Condes de Barcelos
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Rua Doutor Miguel Fonseca
4750-323, Barcelos
The Archaeology Museum was created in 1920 and exhibits granite elements that range from pre-history to the late Modern Age, including a menhir, medieval coffins, romanesque church architectural elements and others.
Solar dos Pinheiros
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Rua Doutor Miguel Fonseca
4750-322, Barcelos
This fourteen hundreds building has Pedro Esteves signature, listener from the family Casa de Bragança. It is composed by a central volume and two rectangular towers. It possesses an extensive façade sided by two towers and ogival windows, attached and rectangular. The gateway, the attached openings and the ground floor entrances reveals us its medieval character.
Igreja Matriz de Barcelos
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Rua Doutor Miguel da Fonseca
4750-322, Barcelos
This is a transition temple presenting some influences of both styles, Romanic and Gothic with several transformations that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. The doorway has four archivolts with eight small columns settled in capitals and the walls are covered with glazed tiles panels representing scenes from the Virgin life. It is worthy to mention the chapel of the Holly Sacrament golden carved from the seventeen hundreds and the main chapel with two valuable sculptures, one from Our Lady of Assunção in baroque style, and the other representing Our Lady of Franqueira.
Igreja e Mosteiro de Vilar de Frades
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Lugar do Socorro
4750-000, Areias de Vilar
The church with characteristics from the fifteen hundreds has on its entrance a porch with a low arch supported by two columns. On the inside it stands out the remarkable nave vaulted coverage, with crossed ribs and the glazed tiles panels from the seventeen hundreds that wrap two of the lateral chapels. From the primitive monastery from the 11th century it still maintains a magnificent Romanic doorway with two archivolts settled in four small columns with historied capitals.
Ponte Medieval de Barcelos
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Rua Fernando Magalhães
4750-290, Barcelos
The bridge is a gothic construction with a keep and three small towers. It links Barcelos and Barcelinhos. Its existence is referred in several documents from the 14th century. It was reconstructed in the 15th century by orders of D. Afonso, 8th Count of Barcelos.
Conjunto Urbano do Centro Histórico de Barcelos
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Largo da Porta Nova
4750, Barcelos
Vestiges of the romanesque, gothic, manuelin, ranaissance, baroque and neoclassical stand out. A special note to the Mother Church, the Paço dos Condes de Bragança, the Church of Our Lord of the Cross and the Fountain of Campo da Feira.
Museu de Olaria
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Rua Cónego Joaquim Gaiolas
4750-306, Barcelos
Created in 1963 in result of the valuable donation of a collection by Joaquim Sellés Paes de Villas Boas, it was first named Regional Ceramics Museum and later Portuguese Popular Ceramics Museum. Later still, it became the Pottery Museum. It exhibits over 6600 objects from different regions, Portuguese speaking countries and a few from abroad.
Galo de Barcelos
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Barcelos
4750, Barcelos
O Galo de Barcelos é um dos ex-libris incontornáveis do artesanato português. Normalmente produzido em barro, está relacionado com uma lenda que narra a milagrosa intervenção de um galo morto na prova de inocência de um homem acusado injustamente de um crime.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Ponte
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Largo de Guilherme Gomes Fernandes
4750, Barcelinhos
Mannerist chapel with centralized plant and alpendrada, characteristic for its verticality. Inside the decor is in Baroque carved altarpiece, national style.
Igreja de Santa Maria de Abade de Neiva
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Rua da Senhora da Abadia, 186
4750-003, Igreja
This is a Romanic rural church but it has the doors and main chapel window already in Gothic style. It was founded in 1152 by Queen D. Mafalda. From the Romanic period it only maintains traces, namely the corbels and the portico with columns and decorated capitals. It possesses a rectangular tower and crowned by pyramidal merlons.