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Museu de Lamego
Occupying a grand, 18th-century Episcopal palace, the Museu de Lamego is one of Portugal’s finest regional museums. The collection features five entrancing works by renowned 16th-century Portuguese painter Vasco Fernandes (Grão Vasco), richly worked Brussels tapestries from the sam
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Platform for Arts and Creativity
For the 2012 European Capital of Culture, the old market square was revamped into a multi-purpose cultural centre inside a shimmering three-floor metallic building that looks like a bunch of stacked-up boxes. Inside is a permanent exhibit by Portuguese painter José de Guimarães, wi
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Domus Municipalis
Squatting at the rear of Citadela is an odd pentagonal building known as the Domus Municipalis , the oldest town hall in Portugal – although its precise age is a matter of scholarly disagreement – and one of the few examples of civil Romanesque architecture on the Iberian Peninsula
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Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
This baroque, 17th-century Jesuit church, built on the site of the former royal palace, looms over the town’s most impressive square, Praça Sá da Bandeira. The church now serves as the town’s cathedral. Inside is a lush baroque ceiling bursting with angels, plus a number of elabora
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Igreja de Jesus
Setúbal’s architectural stunner is the sand-coloured Igreja de Jesus, one of the earliest examples of Manueline architecture, adorned with gargoyles and twirling turrets. Around the altar, 18th-century blue-and-white geometric azulejos contrast strikingly with the curling arches of
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Praça da República
This renovated attractive town square with a pelourinho (stone pillory) is the historic heart of the old city. Dominating the square is the 16th-century Igreja de Misericórdia , a hefty church with an immense porch – its crude stonework betrays its origins as a meat market. The Pla
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Igreja de São João Baptista
The old town’s most striking church faces Praça da República, itself an eye-catching ensemble of 17th-century buildings alive with the echo of cooing pigeons. The church dates mostly from the late 15th century. It has an octagonal spire and richly ornamented Manueline doorways on i
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Museu dos Biscainhos
An 18th-century aristocrat’s palace is now home to the enthusiastic municipal museum, with a nice collection of Roman relics and 17th-to-19th-century pottery and furnishings. The palace itself is the reason to come, with its polychrome, chestnut-panelled ceilings and 18th-century a
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Museu Dom Diogo de Sousa
The archaeological museum houses a nicely displayed collection of fragments from Braga’s earliest days. The four rooms feature pieces from Palaeolithic times (arrowheads, funerary objects and ceramics) through the days of Roman rule and on up to the period dominated by the Suevi-Vi
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Museu da Marioneta
Discover your inner child at the enchanting Museu da Marioneta, a veritable Geppetto’s workshop housed in the 17th-century Convento das Bernardas. Alongside superstars such as impish Punch and his Russian equivalent Petruschka are rarities: Vietnamese water puppets, Sicilian opera
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Casa de José Régio
Religious art, antique furnishings, ceramics and early 20th-century contemporary art – including some stunning Julio canvases – can be glimpsed at the Casa de José Régio. Named after the distinguished local-born poet, playwright and healer José Régio (1901–69), who lived and worked
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Convento do Carmo & Museu Arqueológico
Soaring above Lisbon, the skeletal Convento do Carmo was all but devoured by the 1755 earthquake and thats precisely what makes it so captivating. Its shattered pillars and wishbone-like arches are completely exposed to the elements. The Museu Arqueológico shelters archaeological t
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Santa Luzia
The fishing village of Santa Luzia is effectively a district of Tavira these days, and is a recommended place to wander to get a feel for typical Algarve life. Overlooking the channel that separates the mainland from the Ilha de Tavira, the village is famous for its polvo (octopus)
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Museu do Brinquedo Português
In a gorgeous red mansion right after the Roman bridge in Arcozelo, is this museum dedicated to the Portuguese toy. The focus is on toys made between the late 19th century through 1986. Displays in different rooms include raw materials and manufacturing techniques, and toys arrange
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Churches
Once part of a Dominican monastery, the Gothic sé has been given a lengthy facelift that has restored the 15th-century grandeur of its rather spare interior.Northeast of the cathedral is the magnificent baroque facade of the 17th-century Capela Nova . Inside are fine 18th-century a
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Jardim Garcia de Orta
Bristling with exotic foliage from Portugal’s former colonies, the Jardim Garcia de Orta is named after a 16th-century Portuguese naturalist and pioneer in tropical medicine. Botanical rarities include Madeira’s bird of paradise and serpentine dragon tree. Stroll the Brazilian gard
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Núcleo da Cidade Muralhada/Torre de Almedina
Housed in the medieval tower directly above the Arco de Almedina, this historical museum displays a plaster reproduction of Coimbra’s old-town layout, complete with castle. A multilingual audiovisual presentation takes you step by step around the two kilometres of walls.Theres an e
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Parque Marechal Carmona
The wild Parque Marechal Carmona provides a shady retreat from the seaside crowds, with a duck pond, birch and pine trees, palms and eucalyptus, rose gardens and flowering shrubs. The grounds harbour the Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães , the whimsical early-19th-century mansion
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Igreja de São Domingos
Hefty stone artefacts are dotted carelessly around the cloister of the adjacent 14th-century Igreja de São Domingos - look for the impressive pedras formosas (beautiful stones) thought to have adorned Celtiberian bathhouses in the surrounding region.
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Castelo dos Governadores
Built by the Moors, Lagos castle was conquered by Christian forces in the 13th century. Its said that the ill-fated, evangelical Dom Sebastião attended an open-air Mass here and spoke to the assembled nobility from a small Manueline window in the castle before leading them to a cru
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