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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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Railway stationsCP - Comboios de Portugal (Estação de Santa Apolónia)Santa Apolónia Station was inaugurated on 1 May 1865. Built on a site where a monastery with the same name formerly stood, the station comprised just one storey at the time of its opening. It was not considered as being of any great importance until (...)
Telephone: +351 707 210 220
Website: http://www.cp.pthttp://www.cp.pt/passageiros/pt/consultar-horarios/estacoes/ (...)
http://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/train-times/Stations/Lisboa- (...)
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Museums and PalacesPalácio e Parque de MonserratePark and Palace of Monserrate This fantastic Romantic park was created by William Beckford, who fell in love with the Serra de Sintra.The park and palace of Monserrate, formerly a farm with fruit orchards and crop fields, were first imagined by (...)
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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Museums and PalacesMuseu Nacional do AzulejoThis museum is housed in the Convento da Madre de Deus, a convent built in 1509 at the orders of the queen, Dona Leonor. The building today is an interesting combination of some remarkable 17C architecture and exuberant 18C Baroque decorations. The (...)
Telephone: +351 21 810 03 40
Fax: +351 21 810 03 69
E-mail: mnazulejo@imc-ip.pt
Website: http://mnazulejo.imc-ip.pt
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ArchaeologyCitânia de BriteirosSituated a few kilometres from Guimarães, on top of the São Romão hill above the Ave River valley, the Citânia de Briteiros surprises the visitor with its scenic beauty and because it is one of the most expressive protohistoric settlements of the (...)
Telephone: +351 253 478 952
E-mail: citania@msarmento.org
Website: http://www.csarmento.uminho.pt
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Railway stationsCP - Comboios de Portugal / Estação de São BentoThe corner stone was unveiled in 1900 by king Carlos I on the site of the former convent S. Bento de Avé Maria (Saint Benedict of Hail Mary). The initial project was designed by architect Marques da Silva with its external lines demonstrating then (...)
Telephone: +351 707 210 220
Website: http://www.cp.pthttp://www.cp.pt/passageiros/pt/consultar-horarios/estacoes/ (...)
http://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/train-times/Stations/porto-s (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu do DouroThe Douro Museum in Peso da Régua is a regional museum and the ideal place for welcoming visitors and showing them a representation of the memory, culture and identity of the Douro wine region, classified as World Heritage.The museum is housed in (...)
Telephone: +351 254 310 190
Fax: +351 254 310 199
E-mail: geral@museudodouro.pt
Website: http://www.museudodouro.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Calouste GulbenkianInaugurated in 1969, the museum houses the remarkable private collection of Calouste Gulbenkian. The building was constructed in keeping with the most modern concepts of museum architecture, designed in such a way as to remain in close harmony with (...)
Telephone: +351 21 782 30 00
Fax: +351 21 782 30 32
E-mail: museu@gulbenkian.pt
Website: https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/
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MonumentsConvento dos Capuchos - SintraCapuchos Convent, also known as Santa Cruz or the Cork Convent, was built in 1560 by Dom Álvaro de Castro, in fulfilment of a vow by his father, Dom João de Castro, who was Viceroy of India. Its tiny cells, little chapel, refectory and other (...)
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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Museums and PalacesMuseu de AveiroNew project of magnifying of the Museum, of the authorship of arquitecto Alcino Soutinho, is characterized for an architectural building modern, endowed with audience, destined room the temporary expositions, educative services, library, laboratory (...)
Telephone: +351 234 423 297 - 234 383 188
Fax: +351 234 421 749
E-mail: maveiro@drcc.pt
