Museums, Monuments and Sites
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MonumentsIgreja de São Pedro - PenicheThe Igreja de São Pedro is located in the heart of Peniche's historic centre and is the largest church in the district.Dating from the end of the 16th century, the church is divided into a central nave and two side aisles. In each of the aisles, (...)
Telephone: +351 262 782 172
Fax: +351 262 790 141
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MonumentsIgreja de Santiago - ÓbidosThis church was built in 1186 at the orders of Dom Sancho I. It was a collegiate church serving the castle.After being completely razed to the ground by the earthquake in 1755, the church's reconstruction work ended in 1778, resulting in a very (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Lanifícios da Universidade da Beira InteriorThe Wool Museum, like the University of the Inner Beira to which it belongs, is located in one of the city's most imposing buildings. It was formerly the Royal Cloth Factory.The building was commissioned in 1769 during the reign of King Dom José I, (...)
Telephone: +351 275 241 411 / 275 241 410
E-mail: muslan@ubi.pt
Website: http://www.museu.ubi.pt
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MonumentsCasa do InfanteIt was in this house belonging to the Portuguese crown since the 14th century that Prince Henry the Navigator was born.The building originates from the 14th century when the king Dom Afonso IV decided to erect the Customs House in Porto’s riverside (...)
Telephone: +351 222 060 400
Fax: +351 222 060 041
E-mail: casadoinfante-serveducativo@cm-porto.pt
Website: http://www.portoturismo.pt/
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Municipal de PenicheHoused in the Fortress of Peniche, the former political prison of the pre-revolutionary "Estado Novo" (New State), the Peniche Museum has a section dedicated to the anti-fascist resistance movement, as well as collections of archaeology (consisting (...)
Telephone: +351 262 780 116
Fax: +351 262 780 116
E-mail: museu@cm-peniche.pt
Website: http://www.cm-peniche.pt
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MonumentsCâmara Municipal do PortoPorto City CouncilThis striking building, harking back to the architecture of the great communal palaces of the north of Europe, is set at the top of the Avenida dos Aliados (Avenue of the Allies).Construction began on this robust, imposing building (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de São RoqueThe story of this place starts in the beginning of the 16th century when King Manuel I ordered the construction of a small shrine to house a relic of Saint Roch, so that the saint would protect Lisbon from black plague. However, the church that we (...)
Telephone: +351 21 323 50 65
Fax: +351 21 323 50 60
E-mail: info@museu-saoroque.com
Website: http://www.museu-saoroque.comhttp://www.scml.pt
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Museums and PalacesCentro de Arte Manuel de BritoPalácio Anjos, one of the most distinctive buildings in Algés, has been exhibiting the Manuel de Brito collection, a representative sample of 20th-century art, since November 2006.Galeria 111, one of Lisbon’s most prestigious art galleries, was (...)
Telephone: +351 21 411 14 00
Fax: +351 21 411 14 05
E-mail: info@camb.pt
Website: http://www.camb.pt
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MonumentsCapela de Nossa Senhora da Encarnação - LeiriaOn the eastern side of the city, dominating the landscape up over the Monte de São Gabriel (Saint Gabriel's Hill), there is the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Encarnação (Our Lady of Incarnation). This place of pilgrimage was first developed in 1588 (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu do Brinquedo
Telephone: +351 238 082 015
Fax: +351 238 083 521
E-mail: museu.brinquedo@cm-seia.pt
Website: http://www.cm-seia.pt
