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Casa Setecentista na Rua Pena Monteiro
- heritage
Rua Pena Monteiro, 26
1600-571, Lisboa
Century housing building, consisting of a simple rectangular plan with two storeys with attic room and patio. Here lived and died the known researcher of the history of the city of Lisbon, Júlio Castilho.
Casa Setecentista na Rua Pena Monteiro
- heritage
Rua Pena Monteiro, 24
1600-571, Lisboa
18th century dwelling house consisting of a simple rectangular plan with two storeys with dormers and a patio. Here lived in the summer Light historian Soriano, as proves the inscription on the main gate.
Estação Arqueológica do Alto do Couto da Pena
- heritage
Na confluência do Rio Coura com o Minho
4910, Caminha
Fortified village formed by a line of walls and houses. These houses are made of stone and with circular plan, with some of rectangular shape with rounded angles, leveraging for deployment spaces, gaps and the existing rocks.
Bar das Meadas
- food & drink
M556 - Cerva
4870-042, Cerva
Bar simpático situado na Zona de Lazer de Cerva. A 11km da Saída da A7 - Nó de Ribeira de Pena.
Núcleo Museológico do Palácio de Monserrate
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Estrada de Monserrate
2710-405, Sintra
The current Palace, with an exotic Oriental plan, was built from an 18th century building that imitated a medieval castle. A possession of the Mello e Castro family, it was rented to Gerard DeVisme at the end of the 18th century, who bulit a neogothic manor. In 1856 it was acquired by Francis Cook, who built a new Oriental palace, with revivalist motifs, a true testimony to the romantic architecture. He also ordered the plantation of the Moserrate Park, that combines exotic and local plants, currently an important botanical museum. Nowadays, one may only visit the gardens.
Biblioteca do Palácio Nacional de Mafra
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Terreiro D. João V - Palácio Nacional de Mafra
2640-492, Mafra
The Library occupies the most noble and vast of all the rooms in the National Palace of Mafra. It is one of the most important European libraries, with a collection of about 36,000 volumes, from the 15th to the 19th century, covering diverse topics such as Religion, History, Geography, Medicine and Art, among others. The rich collection includes rare works from the 15th century, several Bibles or the first Encyclopedia. Also, noteworthy is a set of about a thousand banned books.
Centro Cultural Palácio do Egipto
- art
Rua Álvaro António dos Santos
2780-182, Oeiras
Cultural center in the historic centre of the town of Oeiras, the source of the Chiesa Madre (mother church) dating back to the 19th century. 18th and was until the construction of the Palace of the Marquis the noblest building in the village of Oeiras.