Pelourinho de Vila Viçosa
It was built during D. Manuel Kingdom and it is composed by a platform with four steps, base, pedestal, square monolithic shaft and square capital. The finishing is in sphere cup decorated on the two hemispheres with vegan symbols and the crowning is with vegan conic ball. IT is made of marble and it has around eight metres high.
Contacts
Avenida Duques de Bragança
7160-209,Vila Viçosa
- Easy external parking
- Pillories & Stone crosses
- True
Characteristics
Monuments near Pelourinho de Vila Viçosa
Cruzeiro do Carrascal
Punch one step, the Centre of which stands the base of enormous proportions formed by convex plinth. It has a Latin cross involved in arm larger and on the cru…
Antigo Convento de Nossa Senhora do Amparo
This was the convent of the order of Saint Paul Hermit and was built following the 16th-century urban expansion. It was composed by Church, chancel, cruise, sa…
Antigo Palácio dos Matos Azambuja
Former palace built in 1599, with a rectangular plan, with two floors and two bodies and a central courtyard, owned by the Matos Azambuja family. It later beca…
Busto de Florbela Espanca
Florbela Espanca was born in 1894 in Vila Viçosa. Was a writer and poet and his life is associated with various troubles, patents on his literary production an…
Castelo de Vila Viçosa
Square-shaped castle surrounded by a moat and two cylindrical turrets. Access is via a classic Roman doorway. It is a rare example in the panorama of Portugues…
Convento das Chagas de Cristo
Second Order Franciscan Convent - Poor Clares. Rectangular in plan, it comprises a chancel, sacristy and cloister. Its collection is vast and includes interior…
