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MonumentsSé Catedral de SantarémThe most recent Portuguese cathedral in an ancient building.Formerly known as the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Colégio dos Jesuítas or Igreja do Seminário, the current Cathedral of Santarém is a 17th century temple erected on the spot (...)
Telephone: +351 243 304 060
E-mail: geral@museudiocesanodesantarem.pt
Website: http://www.museudiocesanodesantarem.pt
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MonumentsSé Catedral de SetúbalA secular church turned cathedral since 1975.Setúbal Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria da Graça. Originally built in the 13th century, in Roman-Gothic style, it was rebuilt in the 16th century, according to the layout of António Rodrigues. It (...)
Telephone: +351 265 523 352
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MonumentsSé Catedral de SilvesThe most important Gothic building in the Algarve.Silves was named the bishopric seat soon after the first conquest of the city from the Arabs in 1189, but the Cathedral was only built after 1268, after the city’s definitive conquest during the (...)
Telephone: +351 282 442 472
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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 (...)
