Aveirense theater located between Rua 31 de Janeiro and the Belém do Pará Street, in the parish of Glory, parish and county of Aveiro, Aveiro district of Portugal. The Aveirense Theatre is a municipal structure of regular progression in the various artistic fields, standing out as host entity par excellence and as a venue for […]
The sea and the Ria de Aveiro give the city a set of specific characteristics that make it unique in the national urban system. One of the specific concerns the secular exploitation of salt that led to the settlement Aveiro. Which mirrored windows, permanently keep the salt in my imagination. The salt produced is stored […]
The harvesting of seaweed was another of activities that characterize the lagoon of life, whose landscape was painted by colorful and features typical boats of this activity, moliceiros. The seaweed is formed by aquatic plants that form in the submerged bed of the lagoon and it was used as a fertilizer on agricultural land margins. […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
