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Núcleo do Azeite - Lagares de Proença-a-Velha

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Rua da Igreja, 4
6060-069, Idanha-a-Nova

Idanha-a-Nova

Former camp beirão that was recovered, with a view to creating a space dedicated to the history of olive oil. Here you can see a water-powered mill, another animal traction and other mechanical traction.

Museu Epigráfico Egitaniense

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Rua do Lagar
6060-041, Idanha-a-Nova

Idanha-a-Nova

Idanha-a-Velha "rises where was built the glorious city of Egitânia, countless times invaded and plundered. Here we found traces of prehistory, the Celts, the Roman Classicism, the Suevi, Visigoths, Arabs, middle ages and Portuguese Manueline period constructions. The Epigraphic Museum in Egitaniense Cathedral, originally built on a paleocristão Temple, being the first Visigothic Cathedral built in the Iberian Peninsula. Inside, we see the largest collection of Roman epigraphy in Europe, ever found in one place. Another part of this estate is part of the Tavares Proença Júnior Museum Collections (White Castle) and the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Lisbon).

Sé Catedral de Idanha-a-Nova

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Rua da Sé, 7
6060-041, Idanha-a-Nova

Idanha-a-Nova

This Cathedral has some traces from the 6th and 7th centuries, including the baptistery and the Bishop Palace. It is settled above the ruins from a Roman city, headquarters for the Civitas Igaeditanorum. It has three naves one of which is truncated and one lateral chapel that shows a wall painting representing São Bartolomeu with a chained devil on his feet. To remark the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário with a cover in a shape of a shell and one painting on the wall dating 1593 and using geometric, zoomorphic and cruciform decorative elements and angel heads.

Conjunto Arquitetónico e Arqueológico de Idanha-a-Velha

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Largo da Igreja
6060, Idanha-a-Nova

Idanha-a-Nova

Fortified town walls enclosed oval, situated on the right bank of the river Pônsul. In the interior, especially the ancient Cathedral\/Church and the ruins of the Castle. Outside the walls, the chapel of St. Damasus, the chapel of the Holy Spirit and to the bridge over the Pônsul River. The bridge dates from the 1st century and the walls of the century III or IV.

Castelo e Muralhas de Monsanto

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Rua do Castelo, 32
6060-091, Idanha-a-Nova

Idanha-a-Nova

According to legend, the Foundation of this Castle began with a castro who allowed the companions of viriathus resisted a siege of seven years. Later, resisted the Castilian, Arab and French assaults. It is located in the middle of a vast mountains, a strategic lookout point. Dom Afonso Henriques granted him the foral in 1174 and gave it to the Knights Templar, who gave way to the Castle. The imposing medieval fortress only the Tower of Lucena and piao, of quadrangular shape.

Passeio no Cais da Régua

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Cais da Régua
5050, Peso da Régua

Peso da Régua

It's worth a stroll around this place of rare beauty, especially with the light of dusk. You can stroll by the river pier and get to enjoy the surrounding landscape of the hills across the River, and even the game of colors of Rabelo boats moored.

Biblioteca Municipal de Baião / Biblioteca Municipal António Mota

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Avenida 25 de Abril
4640-142, Baião

Baião

This cultural space offers several services: home loan, referral service, carrying out activities to promote books and reading aimed at both the school community and the public.

Núcleo Arqueológico de Chã de Parada

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Loivos do Monte
4640, Loivos do Monte

Baião

Set four megalithic dolmens, some with engravings on its mainstays.

Casa do Lavrador - Museu Rural e Etnográfico

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Estrada Nossa Senhora do Martírio, 667
4640-414, Santa Cruz do Douro

Baião

Casa do Lavrador is a rural and ethnographic museum, which is part of the Cultural and Recreational Association of Santa Cruz do Douro. It was built in 1999, in honor of Augusto Gomes dos Santos, honorary president of the Portuguese Folklore Federation. This space portrays a peasant's house from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Igreja de São Tiago de Valadares

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Valadares
4640-580, Valadares

Baião

Small dimensions temple that we can include already in the Gothic period, although of possible previous foundation. Simple façade, where a portal with a broken arch opens, with two archivolts, the interior being decorated with spheres. Despite the sobriety of the building, with few spans and heavy verticality, the interior features one of the most important mural painting from the 15th century preserved in Portugal.

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