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Santuário de São Torcato
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Rua Comendador Alberto Pimenta
4800-867, São Torcato
Church of revival architecture and eclectic, with a Latin cross plant consisting of a single ship. This church took 173 years to be completed, and for finishing the chancel. Inside, there is a cruise covered by an octagonal Dome, lit by eight stained glass Windows.
Convento de Nossa Senhora do Carmo
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Travessa do Carmo
4700-268, Braga
The Convent and the church were built in the middle of the XVII century. The glazed tiles are from the XIX century and the present front is modernist (1907). Inside are worthy of notice the baroque woodcarving, the neoclassical retable and glazed tiles. Near this place are the ruins of the ancient Caridade chapel, from the XVII century.
Igreja e Convento do Pópulo
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Praça Conselheiro Torres Almeida, 113
4700-312, Braga
This monument invokes the Virgin venerated at the Santa Maria do Pópulo Church., in Rome. Built in the end of the XVI century, the building suffered some changes in the XVIII century. The neoclassical front is sided by two chapels and inside are worthy of notice the glazed tiles and the golden woodcarving.
Mosteiro de São Martinho de Tibães
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Rua do Mosteiro, 59
4700-565, Braga
Ancient Benedictine monastery, whose present ensemble dates from the XVIII century. The monastery has four cloisters and the most important is decorated with azulejos and a granite fountain at the centre. The church has beautiful golden woodcarving works.
Igreja do Antigo Mosteiro de São Salvador do Souto / Igreja do antigo Mosteiro do Divino Salvador
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Largo Prior Luís Dias da Silva
4800-836, Agras
Romanesque, Baroque and neoclassical Church, belonging to the medieval former monastery of the Canons of St. Augustine. It consists of a longitudinal plan with a single nave and a chancel lower and narrow. Still retains some vestiges of the primitive Temple, such as cornice with Visigothic and Lombard band decorated element.
Igreja de São Martinho de Candoso
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Largo da Igreja, 58
4835-380, Guimarães
This is a Romanic church with one only nave, main chapel and bell ringer tower. From the original temple it only maintains the corbels remains on the top. It underwent several improvements, displaying, mostly, neoclassic features.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira
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Largo da Oliveira, 8
4800-438, Guimarães
Romanesque temple rebuilt by Dom João I, in late 14th century, in fulfilment of a promise made to Nossa Senhora da Oliveira, for victory at the battle of Aljubarrota. The chapter room and two wings of the present Romanesque-mudejar elements cloister, which constitute the best set of this style, granite throughout the country. This church has the only set of Gothic painting of ceiling in Portugal. Inside, stands the seventeenth-century choir stalls with neoclassical backrests.
Igreja e Convento das Domínicas
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Rua Doutor Bento Cardoso, 45
4810-433, Guimarães
Work founded in early 17th century by Fr. Sebastian, Prior of the convent of São Domingos de Viana do Castelo. In the 18th century, the Prioress Mother Catherine das Chagas sent to the current works of stones. Include the set of altarpieces and pelmets in Baroque gilded rocaille organ and an image of Christ, about the font, dating from the 16TH century.
Capela do Bom Despacho
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Rua da Portelinha, 1220
4800-426, Gominhães
17th century Church of Mannerist and Baroque architecture, with interior of a ship. It is flanked by a sturdy Bell Tower with conical shot.