Tesouro da Sé de Lisboa Museum
The museum has a valuable collection of religious vestments and gold and silver plate, including a most richly decorated monstrance and other precious pieces. Photo: www.dicasdelisboa.com.br
Heritage
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Electricity Museum
This museum is housed in a group of buildings classified as national heritage – the Central Tejo or Lisbon power station. Besides the building itself, the main interest is the machinery used to supply electricity to the city of Lisbon in the first half of the 20C. It includes 19C dynamos and electric motors, steam […]
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Santa Marta Fort
The fort is situated by the edge of the cliff and close to the Museu Conde Castro Guimarães, between the sea and the coast road, and to the east of São João do Estoril. The lighthouse that has been installed here is in line with the lighthouse marking the Northern Bar of the Port of […]
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Esperança Foutain
Considered to be one of the finest public fountains in Lisbon. Built in the eighteenth century, as part of the Aguas Livres system, designed by Carlos Mardel. Photo: www.patrimoniocultural.pt
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Maritime Museum of Ílhavo
This unique museum provides an insight into the admirable and heroic adventure of the cod fisheries, and the remarkable ethnographic richness of the coastal populations, whose character is moulded by the rough seas to which they owe their survival. The icon of the collection dedicated to cod fishing is a life-sized cod-fishing boat, cut in […]
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Lisbon Cathedral
Founded in 1147, Lisbon Cathedral is one of the city’s great landmarks and also one of the symbols of the Christian Reconquest of the territory. The Cathedral was built when the first king of Portugal, Dom Afonso Henriques, conquered the city from the Moors, in 1147. Previously, the site was occupied by a Muslim mosque. […]
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Convento do Carmo Church
This church is all that has survived from the convent founded between 1613 and 1620. In front of the churchyard is a wall decorated with baroque motifs, whilst the blazon of the Carmelite nuns can be seen above the door. The interior is of great architectural simplicity, with the church´s most notable features being its […]
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Oeiras Recreational Port
Photo: portoderecreio.oeirasviva.pt
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Senhor das Barrocas Chapel
This small chapel, begun in 1722, is one of the most interesting monuments in Aveiro. It is composed of two parts: the octagonal nave and the rectangular chancel. Three beautiful and highly decorated portals can be seen on the outside. The pediments above the main one of these portals are sumptuously decorated with leaves and […]
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Nossa Senhora da Alegria Chapel
One of the oldest churches in Aveiro, this was the headquarters of the ancient and quite sizeable brotherhood of fishermen, responsible for the first fishing trips to Newfoundland in 1501 or thereabouts. There are some well-preserved 17th-century azulejo panels in the nave. Photo: allaboutportugal.pt
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Belém Dock
With 194 berths for boats up to 12 metres in length and several facilities for the dry-dock repair and maintenance of boats (portal crane, tidal grid, electro-hydraulic boat hoist), the Doca de Belém represents an important symbolic location for all the world’s yachtsmen: it was from here that the Portuguese ships set sail in the […]
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Bom Sucesso Dock
This dock formerly belonged to the Portuguese Navy and has been opened to pleasure craft (with 163 berths for boats up to 15 metres in length). It is situated a short distance to the east of the Torre de Belém, a 16th C monument classified by UNESCO as world heritage and a magnificent example of […]