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Number of results: 63
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MonumentsMosteiro dos JerónimosOn the banks of the Tagus is an apogee of Manueline architecture.In the spot where the Jerónimos Monastery stands today, next to the old Belém beach, was originally a small hermitage dedicated to Santa Maria that had been built by the Infante D. (...)
Telephone: +351 213 620 034
E-mail: geral@mjeronimos.dgpc.pt
Website: http://www.mosteirojeronimos.gov.pt
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MonumentsCastelo de São JorgeThe Castelo de São Jorge is one of Lisbon’s most distinctive monuments, being situated on the city’s highest hill.The oldest known fortification at this spot dates from the 2nd century BC, although some of the remains found here date from as far (...)
Telephone: +351 218 800 620
Fax: +351 218 875 695
E-mail: info@castelodesaojorge.pt
Website: http://www.castelodesaojorge.pthttp://www.egeac.pt
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MonumentsSé Catedral de LisboaDedicated to the Mother of God since 1147.Dedicated to the Mother of God, Lisbon Cathedral is one of the city's gems and one of the most significant monuments in the country, due to its historical, religious and artistic value. Its construction (...)
Telephone: +351 218 866 752
E-mail: info@sedelisboa.pt
Website: http://www.sedelisboa.pt
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MonumentsConvento de Cristo e Castelo TemplárioThe Convent of Christ In 1983, UNESCO awarded the classification of world heritage to the Templar Castle and the Convent of the Knights of Christ in Tomar, a unique monument in the history of the western world. Built on a site that was originally (...)
Telephone: +351 249 315 089 / +351 249 313 481
Fax: +351 249 322 730
E-mail: geral@ccristo.dgpc.pt
Website: http://www.conventocristo.gov.pt/
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MonumentsSé de BragaThe first cathedral, older than Portugal.The Cathedral of Braga was the first Portuguese cathedral, erected several decades before the founding of the country. It began to be built at the end of the 11th century, and was concecrated and dedicated to (...)
Telephone: +351 253 263 317
Fax: +351 273 263 731
E-mail: info@se-braga.pt; geral@culturanorte.pt
Website: http://www.se-braga.pt/catedral.php
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MonumentsSé Catedral do PortoThe many names of Marian Devotion.Porto Cathedral, like the first band of city walls, was born in the 12th century by initiative of its first bishop, D. Hugo. The temple is also known as the church of Santa Maria do Porto, de Nossa Senhora do Porto (...)
Telephone: +351 226 179 345 - 222 059 028
Fax: +351 226 096 276
E-mail: geral@culturanorte.pt
Website: http://www.culturanorte.pt/pt/gca/index.php?id=120http://www.rotadascatedrais.com/en/porto
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MonumentsFortaleza de SagresSagres or the Promontorium Sacrum. This location evokes the memory of the Infante D. Henrique and the Portuguese discoveries. The southwesternmost point in the European continent, was already referred to in antiquity as the Promontorium Sacrum, (...)
Telephone: +351 282 620 140
Fax: +351 282 620 141
E-mail: fortaleza.sagres@cultalg.pt
Website: http://www.cultalg.pt
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MonumentsCastelo dos Mouros - SintraWinding over two ridges of the Serra de Sintra, the Moorish Castle dates back to the early days of the Moorish occupation of the Peninsula - the 8th Century.After various attempts it was definitively taken by Dom Afonso Henriques in 1147, and there (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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MonumentsMosteiro de Santa Clara-a-VelhaThe Mosteiro de Santa Clara was built in 1314 at the orders of the Queen Saint Isabel of Aragon, replacing a small convent of nuns of the Order of St. Clare, founded in 1286. The building was completed in 1330, having been designed by the architect (...)
Telephone: +351 239 801 160
Fax: +351 239 801 169
E-mail: mosteiro.scvelha@drcc.pt
Website: http://santaclaraavelha.drcc.pthttp://www.facebook.com/mosteiro.santaclara.a.velha
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MonumentsCastelo de PaderneBuilt during the Almohad period, during a late phase of Islamic presence in the Algarve (12th century or first decades of the 13th century), this rural fortress is a paradigm of Muslim military stucco architecture in Portugal.Contrary to previous (...)
Telephone: +351 289 599 508
E-mail: sed@cm-albufeira.pt
Website: https://www.cm-albufeira.pt/content/o-castelo-de-paderne