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MonumentsSé Catedral de Viana do CasteloFrom ancient church, to cathedral since 1977.Construction of the Viana do Castelo Main Church dates back to the first half of the 15th century, influenced by Gothic aesthetics. The region, situated between the Minho and Lima rivers, has always (...)
Telephone: +351 258 822 436
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MonumentsSé Catedral de Vila RealA journey through the centuries.Erected in the beginning of 1424 by Dominican monks from Guimarães who had obtained a royal licence to build a monastery outside the city walls, the Cathedral of Vila Real continues to be known as the Church of São (...)
Telephone: +351 259 322 034 /259 342 367
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MonumentsSé Catedral de ViseuSt. Mary of the Assumption is its patron saint.With large towers that give it the look of a fortified church set on a promontory, the magnificence of this cathedral is a focal point of the city, even from a distance. It is also one of its oldest (...)
Telephone: +351 232 436 065
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MonumentsSé Catedral do FunchalHeadquarters of a diocese that was once the largest in the world.The Church of Santa Maria was built by order of King Manuel I to replace the Church of Our Lady of Calhau, in the island’s first ever parish, as it was too small to house the growing (...)
Telephone: +351 291 228 155
E-mail: secatedralfunchal@sapo.pt
Website: http://www.sefunchal.com
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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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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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MonumentsSeminário de SantiagoThe Santiago Seminary was built on the orders of archbishop Brother Bartolomeu of the Martyrs, an important figure in the 16th century and who established his reputation in participating at the Council of Trent (1545). It was designed to be the (...)
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MonumentsSeminário Maior de CoimbraIn the Upper part of Coimbra, near the Botanical Garden, we find one of the most impressive presences of Italian art in Portugal, with more than 250 years of history: you can see the cracks of the earthquake of 1755, the traces of the First French (...)
Telephone: +351 239 792 340
E-mail: seminariomaiordecoimbra@gmail.com; reservas@grupogala.pt
Website: http://www.seminariomaiordecoimbra.com/
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MonumentsSé Nova de CoimbraThe first Jesuit college.The College of Eleven Thousand Virgins was built in 1598 near the University of Coimbra by the Company of Jesus, which had been in the city since 1541. Work progressed slowly and the church was only inaugurated in 1698. The (...)
Telephone: +351 239 823 138
E-mail: senovacoimbra@gmail.com
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MonumentsSé Velha de CoimbraWhere the second king of Portugal was crowned.Coimbra (Aeminium, in Roman times) is an Episcopal seat since the 5th century, succeeding neighbouring Conímbriga. Despite its long history, there is no mention of a cathedral until the construction of (...)
Telephone: +351 239 825 273
Fax: +351 239 825 273
E-mail: igrejasevelha@gmail.com
Website: http://sevelha-coimbra.org/
