Monastery of Arouca

Monastery of Arouca

The Monastery of Arouca is located in Arouca parish, town and municipality of the same name of the Porto Metropolitan Area and Northern Region, situated in the northeast of Aveiro, Portugal. According to documentary sources, was founded in the first half of the tenth century, as a small monastery inhabited by a religious community under […]

Places to Visit, The Historic City of Ílhavo, The Bairro Operário da Vista Alegre and The Bairro da Malhada

Places to Visit, The Historic City of Ílhavo, The Bairro Operário da Vista Alegre and The Bairro da Malhada

Historic City of Ílhavo The old town of Aveiro city is characterized by a former provisions built along narrow streets, alleys and lanes, scenic elements and natural. Bairro Operário da Vista Alegre The Vista Alegre neighborhood is one of the few Portuguese cases, and the first in which a totally private, philanthropic initiative founded an […]

Casa Gafanhoa Museum, in Ílhavo

Casa Gafanhoa Museum, in Ílhavo

The House of Gafanhoa, constructed in the late 20s of the twentieth century, is an ancient dwelling farmers, restored and converted into the Municipal Museum November 11, 2000, currently managed by the Ethnographic Group of Gafanha of Nazareth. Inside, there is a very strong testimony of the rural livelihoods of the city population, closely related […]

Palheiros of Costa Nova, Haystacks in Costa Nova

Palheiros of Costa Nova, Haystacks in Costa Nova

The haystacks Costa Nova are famous and candlesticks existing striped beach houses with the same name, originally in shades of red ocher and black, used as old warehouses of fishing implements. Until the beginning of the Costa Nova nineteenth century was an extensive uninhabited beach but after the fixation of the Port of Aveiro Barra, […]

The Barra Fort, in Gafanha da Nazaré

The Barra Fort, in Gafanha da Nazaré

The Barra Fort, also known as Pombalino Forte, Forte or New Castle Gafanha, was built in 1640, in Gafanha da Nazaré, during the War of Restoration, sporting, by virtue of its function, seventeenth-century military architecture. In 1974, the Fort was considered a cultural heritage building. Continues to perform support functions to the signaling of inland […]

Aveiro Lagoon, Ria de Aveiro

Aveiro Lagoon, Ria de Aveiro

The Ria de Aveiro is a coastal lagoon shallow and extensive intertidal areas. It extends for 45 km along the west coast of Portugal from Ovar to Mira. The total area of ​​Ria that is covered during high tide varies between 83 km2 in spring tide and 66 km2 of neap tides. The average depth […]

The Ship Museum Santo André, in Ílhavo

The Ship Museum Santo André, in Ílhavo

The Ship Museum Santo André is a Ílhavo Maritime Museum. He was part of the Portuguese fleet of cod and is intended to illustrate the drag arts. This side trawler (or “classic”) was born in 1948 in the Netherlands by order of Aveiro Fishing Company. It was a modern ship, with 71.40 meters long and […]

Lighthouse of Aveiro

Lighthouse of Aveiro

The lighthouse of Aveiro Barra is the largest lighthouse in Portugal. It is located at Barra, parish of Gafanha da Nazaré, Aveiro municipality, Aveiro district. It was at the time of its construction, the world’s sixth largest in stone masonry and remain currently the second largest in the Iberian Peninsula and is included in the […]

Art Nouveau, Itinerary in the Historic Center of Ílhavo

Art Nouveau, Itinerary in the Historic Center of Ílhavo

Also the travel of cod captains to other parts of the globe, and his taste for modern, coupled with the pragmatic nature of the Sea Men, favored the acquisition of taste for this style in the early twentieth century. For these two reasons, and also for local and regional tradition in the production and ceramic […]

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