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Paço Episcopal
The bishop’s palace, in the north of town, is a sober 18th-century affair housing the Museu de Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior . Downstairs, the centrepiece is an excellent display of local archaeological finds. If you’re a fan of embroidery you’ll also love the upstairs exhibitio
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Rossio
Simply Rossio to locals, Praça Dom Pedro IV has 24-hour buzz. Shoe-shiners and lottery ticket sellers, hash-peddlers and office workers drift across its wavelike cobbles, gazing up to its ornate fountains and Dom Pedro IV (Brazil’s first emperor), perched high on a marble pedestal.
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Casa Museu Frederico de Freitas
Built by the counts of Calçada in the 17th century, this tasteful mansion was purchased by a local lawyer, Frederico de Freitas in the 1940s. An avid collector of just about anything, over the next three decades he proceeded to fill its rooms with antiques and knick-knacks from his
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Museu CR7
If after a few days in Funchal, the fact has escaped your attention, now you know: the worlds greatest footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo was born and grew up in Funchal. This museum is basically a glitzy public store cupboard for all the tens of cups, man-of-the-match awards, winners m
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Palácio da Bolsa
This splendid neoclassical monument (built from 1842 to 1910) honours Porto’s past and present money merchants. Just past the entrance is the glass-domed Pátio das Nações (Hall of Nations), where the exchange once operated. But this pales in comparison with rooms deeper inside; to
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Torre de Menagem
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Anta Grande do Zambujeiro
The Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro, 13km southwest of Évora, is Europe’s largest dolmen. Under a huge sheet-metal protective shelter in a field of wildflowers and yellow broom, stand seven stones and a closing slab that connects the chamber with the corridor. Each is 6m high and togeth
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Museu da Ciência
This wonderful science museum occupies a centuries-old former monastery converted by Pombal into the university’s chemical engineering building. It features intriguing state-of-the-art interactive science displays coexisting with 18th-century lab sinks; don’t miss the giant glowing
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Arco de Almedina
Long a Moorish stronghold and for a century the seat of Portugals kings, Coimbras upper town rises quickly and picturesquely from the banks of the Rio Mondego. The most picturesque way to enter its labyrinth of lanes is via Arco de Almedina - the citys heavy-duty Moorish gateway -
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Ermelo
The 800-year-old village of Ermelo is famous for its schist cottages capped with fairy-tale slate roofs that seem to have been constructed from broken blackboards. Once the main village of the region, it boasts traditional espigueiros (stone granaries), an ancient chapel, a sturdy
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Panteão Nacional
Perched high and mighty above Graça’s Campo de Santa Clara, the porcelain-white Panteão Nacional is a baroque beauty. Originally intended as a church, it now pays homage to Portugal’s heroes and heroines, including 15th-century explorer Vasco da Gama and fadista (singer of traditio
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Around the Rossio
At the southern end of Praça da República is the late-18th-century Igreja dos Terceiros , all heavy, gilded baroque but for the luminous azulejos portraying the life of St Francis.Fine modern azulejos at the northern end of the Rossio depict scenes from regional life, and beyond th
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Lagar de Varas do Fojo (Museu do Azeite)
With a system of production that would have been similar to that of Roman times, an oil press here re-creates the oil-pressing factory that functioned on this spot between 1841 and 1941, with giant wooden and stone-wheel presses, vats and utensils. Opposite is the recently opened J
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Museu Anjos Teixeira
Set in a former watermill, this small museum displays works by the father-and-son duo of Anjos Teixeira – two of Portugal’s greatest sculptors. Most of the pieces here are the work of Pedro Augusto (1908–97), the son, who enjoyed greater success than his father, and was connected t
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Igreja Matriz
Mértola’s striking parish church – square, flat-faced and topped with whimsical little conical decorations – is most known because in a former incarnation it was a mosque, one of the few in the country to have survived the Reconquista. It was reconsecrated as a church in the 13th c
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IBTAM
IBTAM is the organisation that oversees Madeiran embroidery production – anything bearing their label is guaranteed to be the genuine, locally made article. This quaint museum at IBTAMs headquarters examines many aspects of traditional embroidery with mock-ups of 19th-century rooms
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Ponte 25 de Abril
Most people experience déjà vu the first time they clap eyes on the bombastic suspension bridge Ponte 25 de Abril. It’s hardly surprising given that it’s the spitting image of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, was constructed by the same company in 1966, and, at 2.27km, is almost
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Castelo dos Mouros
Soaring 412m above sea level, this mist-enshrouded ruined castle looms high above the surrounding forest. When the clouds peel away, the vistas over Sintra’s palace-dotted hill and dale to the glittering Atlantic are – like the climb – breathtaking. The 9th-century Moorish castle’s
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Basílica da Estrela
The curvaceous, sugar-white dome and twin belfries of Basílica da Estrela are visible from afar. The echoing interior is awash with pink-and-black marble, which creates a kaleidoscopic effect when you gaze up into the cupola. The neoclassical beauty was completed in 1790 by order o
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Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas
The Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas is a must-see (admittedly, it depends on whats on show). Opened in 2007, the museum is housed in a cleverly renovated baroque-style building from the 1700s, formerly the Misericórdia Hospital, and houses exhibitions of modern Portuguese arti
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