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Casa da Fonte - Casa da Corva

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Corva
5470-417, Montalegre

Montalegre

18TH century House, built by a local parish priest, serving as a place of conviviality between priests until the mid-19th century, when it was acquired by an inhabitant of Corva, ex-emigrante in Brazil. Currently, the home still belongs to the descendants of the emigrant.

Casa do Navegador Cabrilho

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Lapela
5470-019, Montalegre

Montalegre

To get to this House, where was born the browser Cabrillo and currently runs a House of rural tourism, it is necessary to traverse a dirt forest road for about ten kilometers from Paradela as the river the Peneda-Gerês National Park. The 16th century navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was born in lapel, in the parish of Cabril, leaving then to Spain, where he has placed at the service of the Spanish Crown, who sent him to America. Here did the recognition of the West coast of North America to California, being the first European to step on its soil, in …

Capela de São Sebastião

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CM1006
5470-173, Meixedo

Montalegre

Chapel altar of late-Baroque architecture. Presents architectural ensemble with Calvary with seven cruises and shrines of crossroads.

Casa dos Queridos - Solar de Viade de Baixo

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Rua da Lama
5470-528, Montalegre

Montalegre

It is said, this manor belonged to a large family, being one of the many properties of this across the country. The coat on the Solar input is associated with Barroso families (whose symbol are quadrupedal animals) and Mc (whose symbol are the towers). You can also see, on top, a Crown of towers on a suit of armor. The old chapel dedicated to Santa Rita is currently working as a Court of Cows. In front of the solar, there is also a diving source dated 15th or 16th century.

Capela de Nossa Senhora das Neves

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São Lourenço
5470-023, Cabril

Montalegre

Simple, rectangular plant building with gable roof coverage. The appliance is in granite ashlars well equipped and with white painted joints. The sacristy is located near the south wall. Have canonical orientation. The corners are apilastrados, crowned with pinnacles and the angles of the Gables topped by crosses. Over the main door opens a niche with the image of Our Lady of Snows, placed at the center of a triangular pediment and decorated with two pinnacles and cross to the Center. On the north façade was recorded the inscription: "INS YEAR of 1720". The gable of the sacristy is topped …

Réplica dos Claustros do Mosteiro de Pitões

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Rotunda do Valdoso
5470-267, Montalegre

Montalegre

Monument that recreates small the cloisters of the monastery of cleats.

Casa do Outão

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Rua da Fonte da Vila
5470-311, Montalegre

Montalegre

This House works currently as Mourilhe country Hotel, being located about ten kilometres of Montalegre. It is a legend associated with this construction, that lived here four sisters until, due to an event that the story does not explain, three of them died. One night, the surviving sister will have heard a spirit of a priest saying that she too would die. Terrified, told boyfriend the vision and asked him if it was goodbye to her before she died. He, disbeliever in the existence of spirits, never showed up, but she died and he, with regrets, died too.

Casa do Seminário de Gralhas

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Rua Central, 51
5470-160, Montalegre

Montalegre

Granite Manor House located in the village of Rooks, at the foot of the Serra do Larouco. Dating from the 18TH century, more precisely of 1780, this House once belonged and hosted illustrious Barrosões, as the Priest João Álvares de Moura. Later it was transformed into agricultural House and, in 2002, it was classified as Municipal interest Property. He currently works as a unit of Rural tourism, with three double rooms and three suites, library, patio, Garden, Boardwalk, threshing floor, meeting room and an interesting Sundial in granite.

Castro de Donões

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Donões
5470-110, Donões

Montalegre

Traces of a fortified settlement located on the right bank of the river Cávado, around the village of Donões, in cabeço flattened. Is visible from different angles and other villages of the surrounding area, as is the case of castro de Mourilhe and castro de Frades. Presents a form approximately circular with about 70 meters in diameter and surrounded by a line of wall still visible, with approximately four meters thick. The defense is complemented by three deep moats that precede the line of Hadrian's wall. Of the interior were collected several pieces of prehistoric and Roman pottery.

Sepulturas Antropomórficas de Donões

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Donões
5470-110, Montalegre

Montalegre

Set of cave graves located in granite outcrops in the surrounding area of the chapel of Santo Amaro, in Donões. The graves are arranged in two groups, North and South side of the chapel. To the North there are two anthropomorphic graves, one of them partially destroyed and the other with 1.76 meters long and 0.43 meters in maximum width. On the South side of the chapel are four more anthropomorphic graves, all of them excavated in granitic outcrop, all with the same size, about 1.82 meters, by 0.50 metres width of shoulders. One of them is perfectly visible a …

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