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Capela de Santa Catarina
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Morada: Rua 1º de Dezembro
5400-013, Chaves
Majestic granite Chapel, where stands out your frame, topped by a triangular pediment and flanked by pilasters. Inside stands the altar in gilt, with an image of the Patron Saint. Originally, this chapel was located elsewhere, where there was also a hostel where they welcomed the pilgrims of Santiago de Compostela. After being destroyed in the early 17th century, were rebuilt at the current location, in 1681.
Casa Senhorial "O Paço"
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Rua do Torreio
5460-210, Bobadela
19TH century House that stands out from the traditional cluster.
Capela de São Bento
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EN 392
7830, Aldeia Nova de São Bento
Church with Baroque and Rococo architecture, with a nave and chancel. The main altarpiece presents late Rococo influences.
Capela de São Brás
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Largo de São Brás
7960-435, Vila de Frades
Simple chapel with murals, a wider and more of the spoils well preserved in the region.
Convento da Granja
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Rua do Cabo, 4-A
5460-451, Granja
Also known as "School of Granja" consists of a chapel and buildings (dormitories, various rooms, patio), into ruin. The chapel has a beautiful Baroque façade, with an imposing rectangular portal, flanked by two rectangular horizontal slots, the frame of the doorway is in granite worked with volutes. On top has a small kiosk, richly decorated and crafted, with pilasters shot a triangular pediment with a globe, which houses a sculpture of Santa Bárbara. Its construction built on the 18th century and have been connected to the Cistercian order. Already at the end of the nineteenth century worked as a women's …
Castro do Outeiro Lesenho
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Lesenho
5460-492, Lesenho
This castro, classified as Property in the public interest, is a large fortified town that is deployed in a conical hillock and stony South-East of the village of Fields. Are visible three lines of concentric walls, housing platforms where they were deployed housing structures, setting at the top of the last platform a sort of "Acropolis". The Northern, more sheltered, the defensive system was reinforced with two cloths of wing-shaped wall, armando two secondary levels. The walls, whose width is around two metres, are irregular, polygonal apparatus with kernels of pebbles, gravel and Earth. Beyond the open door in wall …
Casa Pastoria Mourão
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Rua Central, 22
5460-370, Codessoso
Imposing building of the early 20th century, reclaimed and transformed into Rural Tourism accommodation.
Capela de São Francisco
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Praça da República
7960-026, Pedrógão
Church of late-Baroque building. Beautiful front with several relevant elements.
Escola Primária de Covas do Barroso
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Rua Acúrcio Amândio de Castro, 51
5460-382, Covas do Barroso
Illustrative School of rural type. Has two rooms of the new plan of centenarians, with rectangular rooms. Presents inside: classrooms that conserve the front lighting arrangement with unilateral dominant on the left. Frame in top and stove for heating.
Sepulturas Antropomórficas de Sapiãos
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Rua do Cemitério
5460-502, Sapiãos
Necropolis with five anthropomorphic graves, of medieval chronology (XI-XIV centuries), excavated a rocky outcrop. Located in the middle of the path that leads to the Romanesque church of Sapiãos, four of them are oriented towards East\/West and a geared towards Northwest\/Southeast. This collection, the largest grave, visible in its entirety, measures about 1, 80 m long and about 18 inches width of shoulders, the rest are smaller ones, two of which are partially cropped.