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Casa dos Marqueses
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Avenida Carvalho Araújo
5000-657, Vila Real
The House of the Marquis was, as the name implies, inhabited by the family of the marquesses of Vila Real. Located in Avenida Carvalho Araújo, this imposing building still preserves the battlements and the Manueline-style semi detached window.
Pelourinho de Galegos
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Galegos
5000, Vila Real
A rustic pillory with a circular base, tall, with ashlars, on which stands a monolithic circular base with the main part of the column in the centre that shows a rectangular section and chiseled faces with panneled parts.
Capela de Nossa Senhora do Loreto
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Largo do Eiró
5000-111, Vila Real
A temple o the 1700s that has a joint body on the continuation of the main façade, above which there is a bell tower crowned by several pinnacles. The main portic is topped by a coat of arms. A chapel with only one nave, it has three voluted medalions that ornament the façade.
Capela de Arroios
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Entre as povoações de Arroios e Couto
5000-051, Vila Real
A chapel that belongs to a manor, with a façade that has a gable with four pinnacles. In its interior, a special note to the high altar's golden carvings, the pulpit and the high choir.
Capela de Santa Maria Madalena
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Justes
5000, Vila Real
A façade with a portal sided by two pilasters and topped by a fronton. On the cornice, ending the façade, there is a triangular fronton with the clock. On the right side there is the campanile.
Cruzeiro do Senhor dos Aflitos
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No lugar de Timpeira
5000, Vila Real
A granite crucifix that stands on a cylindric pedestal. The base and the chapiter do not stand much in relation to the cylindric main part of the column. The top has one cross of Christ on one side and a Pietá on the other.
Igreja de Constantim
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Constantim
5000-751, Vila Real
A temple of the 18th century, reformed, that still kept the romanic arch and chapiters of the chapel of Our Lord of the Passos. It has a façade with carved stoneworks in the portal and a niche in the fronton. Inside, a special note to the golden carvings of the high altar.
Igreja de Mondrões / Igreja de São Tiago
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Lugar da Igreja
5000-325, Vila Real
In the 18th century the church was reconstructed over an older one. It has a curious façade ofe the final baroque. Above the portico, sided by the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the sculpture of Daint Jack "mata-mouros" (killer of Moors) stands out. It has a bell tower and the interior has one nave covered by an ogival dome of jagged ends. A special not to the carvings in the pulpit, the baptismal washbasin and its supporting column.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Guadalupe
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Mouçós
5000-367, Vila Real
A church with one only nave and a rectangular high chapel. The main façade has an ogival arch portal and an archivolt ornamented by vegetable elements that stands on corbels. Above the main portal there is a pannelled small window. The gable is topped by a campanile with a bell. Inside, a special note to the ogival triumphal arch and to the tombs of Álvaro Lopes and Senha de martin Vaz de Sampaio, of the 16th and 17th centuries.