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Museu Serpa Pinto
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Rua Doutor Flávio Resende, 34
4690-038, Cinfães
Inugurated in 2000, this space used to house the local GNR (a branch of the police). It is composed of thre rooms, one of which with craftsworks, another with archaeological findings of the parish and a third one with temporary exhibitions.
Igreja de São Cristovão de Nogueira
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Avenida Doutor Reinaldo Florido Calheiros
4690-540, São Cristóvão de Nogueira
Deeply changed in the modern age, the Church of St. Christopher, the former municipality of Nogueira, is structurally a medieval building of the late Romanesque, of whose period subsists the axial portal and, laterally, dogs, cornices and portions of friezes. Inside stands the work of the main altarpiece and the side altarpieces, although most of this integrated heritage has been profoundly altered by recent interventions.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Natividade de Escamarão
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Largo Artur Soares de Almeida
4690-632, Souselo
This is a romanic – gothic temple where the stone work on the doorways stands out, and also from the triumphal arch and from the openings illuminating the behead. On the lateral altars from the triumphal arch there are mudejar glazed tiles from the 15th and 16th centuries and lasting frescoes.
Igreja de Santa Maria Maior de Tarouquela
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CM1011, 36
4690-714, Tarouquela
Romanesque temple founded by Canons of St. Augustine, single copy of monastic Church in the current municipality of Cinfães. Presents in the façade a portal with three archivolts and capitals decorated with Zoomorphic motifs and tympanum decorated. On the South front there are two portals with Romanesque motifs. Inside the highlight goes to the amount of tombs with bows. Yet highlighting the decorative motifs of the arches, Capitols, girdles and dogs. The monastic building nothing remains, although the body of the Church conserves the structure begun in the 12th century. Inside, there is the image of a Virgin of milk, …
Moinho das Travessas
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Granja
4690-758, Granja
Caster picturesque mill that still works, located in the ribeiro da Granja. Is inserted in the leisure park and picnic area built by the defense and promotion of the parish of Oliveira.
Ponte da Balsa
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Fundo de Vila
4690-351, Nespereira
Ancient arched bridge built in stone, alongside which was recently built a small wooden bridge. Inserted in a fluvial area completely recovered and pleasant, the space has been the location for cultural and leisure activities.
Ponte Medieval de Louredo e Canavesinhos
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Ponte
4690-560, São Cristóvão de Nogueira
Medieval bridge in a reasonable State of preservation. It is surrounded by greenery.
Ponte de Caninhas
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EN225
4690-858, Bairros
A bridge over the Paiva River. It is well preserved. It has only one small arch but it is somewhat monumental.
Ponte de Esmoriz
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Caminho da Ponte de Esmoriz
4640-015, Ancede
Located over the river Ovil, Ponte de Esmoriz is framed in a landscape still marked by a strong rurality. As in the case of Panchorra, in Resende, the Ponte de Esmoriz reflects the late use of quite remote constructive models. Consisting of a single round arch, it is part of the set of road crossings associated with the religious and economic importance of the neighboring Monastery of Ancede.
Conjunto Megalítico da Aboboreira
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Ovil
4640, Ovil
It comprises five monuments and two associated peripheral structures, part of the Serra da Aboboreira Megalithic Ensemble. In this core there are monuments dating from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age.