Ílhavo

Ílhavo

Costa Nova Beach, in Ílhavo

Costa Nova Beach, in Ílhavo

In terms of territorial integration to Costa Nova Beach is a place of the Incarnation Gafanha the Parish. This is a cluster located in a coastal strip that has the particularity constitute hinge between two aquatic environments: Atlantic Ocean, to the west, and the Ria de Aveiro, in the east. It is known to all […]

Barra Beach, in Ílhavo

Barra Beach, in Ílhavo

The Praia da Barra, whose name derives from the fact of being located next to the port of Aveiro Bar is a place of the parish of Gafanha of Nazareth. It is a typically urban beach level I, standing immediately south of the artificial bar that is the Ria de Aveiro entry, with the important […]

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 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 […]

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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