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Heritage in Portugal
Biblioteca Municipal de Coruche
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Largo do Pelourinho, 14
2100-114, Coruche
The library fund amounts to 20,000 copies in the most different and varied areas.
Praça de Touros de Coruche
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Praça da Água
2100-115, Coruche
In Coruche it is still possible to frequently attend bullfighting shows and here there is a tailor who handcrafts bullfighter costumes. This bullring consists of 180 chairs and benches for 6814 spectators.
Casa da Herdade do Monte da Barca
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Coruche
2100, Coruche
Building with incorporated chapel. Around the main building there are housing for rural workers and agricultural warehouses. The chapel is a beautiful example of remarkable decoration, with tiles, painted and plastered.
Centro Histórico de Coruche
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Praça da Liberdade
2100, Coruche
Area with streets with medieval characteristics that surround three churches prior to the 17th century, as well as several buildings of civil architecture.
Museu Municipal de Coruche
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Rua Júlio Maria de Sousa
2100-192, Coruche
The Municipal Museum of Coruche aims to promote the cultural development of the population and make its history known. There are long-term, temporary and itinerant exhibitions, essentially composed of archaeological and ethnographic remains. The Museum also maintains a collection of school material, measurement and bullfighting collection, in addition to four funds: the Margarida Ribeiro Fund, the Monte da Barca Fund, the Armando Lizardo Fund and the Funfo FotoCine, with around 200 thousand negatives.
Museu das Migrações e das Comunidades
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Rua Major Miguel Ferreira - Edifício da Casa Municipal de Cultura
4820-276, Fafe
Museum remodeled and integrated into the Municipal House of Culture. It features several themed rooms, such as the memory room, diaspora or knowledge, among others. In all of them, the aim is to show the historical importance of migratory movements.
Palacete da Companhia de Fiação e Jardim
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Rua José Cardoso Vieira de Castro
4820-269, Fafe
This building is a testament to imported architecture from the beginning of the 20th century. It was designed by a German technician for the Fafe Fiação e Tecidos company. Made up of several small volumes, the tallest in the form of a tower, it has roofs and terraces with wooden eaves. The garden space is delimited by an iron fence.
Museu do Rali
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Rua Guerra Junqueiro
4820-263, Fafe
In this museum, you will remember the past of motor vehicles. Its objective is to promote and promote old cars, constituting a local attraction, as a memory and history of motor vehicles. It also plays a formative role, enabling students to learn about the technological evolution of the automobile.
Museu Hidroeléctrico de Santa Rita
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Santa Rita
4820-413, Fafe
The Santa Rita Hydroelectric Museum is based on the Santa Rita Hydroelectric Power Station, inaugurated on October 5, 1914. It presents a permanent exhibition of a set of parts and equipment related to the production of electrical energy, using the Vizela river water as its driving force. Includes a wide range of objects, indoor and outdoor.
Igreja de São Romão de Arões
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Rua do Assento, 631
4820-762, Arões
Church built in the 12th century in Romanesque style, but already showing a Gothic character. Inside the temple, the triumphal arch with archivolts with Romanesque motifs. The ceiling has coffers with paintings from the 18th century.