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Marginal Ribeirinha da Costa Nova
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Avenida Marginal José Estêvão
3830, Costa Nova do Prado
A pedestrian area on the banks of the Aveiro tidal stream, with wide lawns, a track for bicycles and lovely passages.
Navio-Museu Santo André
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Jardim Oudinot
3830-547, Gafanha da Nazaré
This Ship-Museum is an old cod fishing ship that started working in 1948. Finally, it stopped working and became a museum that shows how life is aboard cod fishing ships.
Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo
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Avenida Dr. Rocha Madahíl, 193
3830-193, Ílhavo
Opened since 1937, with several collections, it was largely restord in 1991. It currently features a valuabl shell collection, of boat miniatures and nautical instruments, among others.
Casa Gafanhoa - Museu Municipal
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Rua de São Francisco Xavier
3830-619, Gafanha da Nazaré
A place that reconstitutes the way of life of the Gafanhas people. A house with a typical decor of the populations of the tidal stream and of the sea.
Museu da Vista Alegre
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Fábrica de Porcelana da Vista Alegre
3830-292, Vista Alegre
The museum is located at the old Vista Alegre factory. It features glass objects made in the 19th century, as well as the history of the porcelain production and its evolution throughout over 150 years.
Capela da Vista Alegre e Túmulo de Dom Manuel de Moura Manuel
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Lugar da Vista Alegre
3830-292, Ílhavo
Temple with thick walls, vaults and brick masonry of limestone. The façade has a large niche with a statue of Nossa Senhora da Penha de France. The classification covers the tomb of Manuel de Moura, Bishop of Miranda.
Percurso Pedestre Urbano Costa Nova (PR2)
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Ílhavo
3830, Costa Nova do Prado
A circular urban trail that is around 3.5 km long, along the streets of the Costa Nova do Prado. It shows the people, the culture and the architecture.
Museu da Vila Velha de Vila Real
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Rua de Trás-os-Muros
5000-657, Vila Real
The Museum of Vila Velha is a new cultural equipment of Vila Real, housed in a building designed by the architect António Belém Lima, and aims to make known the fruits of archaeological excavations in Vila Velha, allowing an increasingly profound knowledge of occupation of this territory. The visitor can contact closely with the results of the interventions, but also with associated archaeological practices. On the lower level, offers an area dedicated to temporary exhibitions, diverse themed. On the top floor, an area for holding exhibitions of average duration. There is also an auditorium with capacity for 60 people.
Museu da Quinta de Santiago
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Rua de Vila Franca, 134
4450-802, Leça da Palmeira
Built by João Santiago de Carvalho e Sousa at the end of the 19th century, it was designed by the Italian Nicola Bigaglia. In 1968, the Municipality of Matosinhos acquired the building and the surrounding garden and the space was adapted for the current Museum of Quinta de Santiago/ Centro de Arte de Matosinhos, opened in 1996. It is housed in a historic building, surrounded by a charming garden, and is a privileged witness to the profound urban and social transformations that took place in the city of Matosinhos-Leça at the end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th …
Casa Museu de Monção
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Rua Conselheiro João da Cunha, 46
4950-469, Monção
This museum belongs to the University of Minho, that organized it with the legacy of Dona Maria Teresa Cardeal Andrade Martins Salgueiro, deceased on October 29, 2001. It is a way of showing the building and what it has inside, as well as the ways of life of a bourgeoise family in the first half of the 20th century, in the Alto Minho. It also welcomes several events.