Pilgrimage to The Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, in Fatima
Our Lady of Fátima Nossa Senhora de Fátima, is a title referring to the Virgin Mary, based on apparitionsreported to be experienced by three shepherd children at Fátima. The three children were Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto. The apparition is also referred to as Our Lady of the Rosary (a…
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“O Casulo” House of painter José Malhoa, in Figueiró dos Vinhos
Located at Avenida José Malhoa, with the Figueiroense Club – House of Culture, the “Cocoon” was the residence that the Grand Master had built after fixation in Figueiró Wine. This residence has a plant consists of two rectangular bodies, tees,…
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The Museu of José Malhoa, in Caldas da Rainha
The Museu de José Malhoa (José Malhoa Museum), in Caldas da Rainha, is a regional Portuguese museum, that hosts the finest collection of the Portuguese naturalist painterJosé Malhoa. The museum building, the first purpose-built museum in Portugal, was constructed in 1940 and enlarged in 1950…
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The Glass Museum, in Marinha Grande
The Glass Museum is a permanent institution, unincorporated and non-profit service of society and its development. Brings together collections that testify to the industrial, artisanal and Portuguese artistic glass since the mid-seventeenth / eighteenth century to the present. It is…
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Fort of São Miguel Arcanjo, in Nazaré
The Fort of Saint Michael the Archangel, also referred to as the Nazareth Morro do Forte or simply Forte da Nazaré,…
Nazaré, The Seaside Resort of Costa da Prata
Nazaré is a town and a municipality in subregion Oeste and Leiria District, in Portugal. It is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the Silver Coast,…
The Fort of Peniche
Square-strong Peniche is located in the city of the same name, in the district of Leiria, Portugal. It is a fortress…
Carreiro do Mosteiro Beach, in Berlenga Grande
The Praia do Carreiro’s Monastery is a beach located in Berlenga Grande, Archipelago of Berlengas and Peniche municipality. It is the…
The Castle of Porto de Mós
The Castle of Porto de Mos, also referred to as Castle D. Fuas Roupinho, located in the parish of St. Peter,…
Via Romana, The Roman Road, in Porto de Mós
The Roman Road to Sierra Alqueidão is located in the parish of Alqueidão of Serra and was created to facilitate the…
Bordallo Pinheiro Factory of Artistic Earthenware, in Caldas da Rainha
Bordallo Pinheiro Factory of Artistic Earthenware was founded in 1884 in Caldas…
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, The Artist
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March 1846 – 23 January 1905) was a Portuguese artist known…
Fort of São João Baptista, Fort of the Berlenga Grande, in Peniche
The Fort of São João Baptista das Berlengas, or simply known as the Fort…
The Berlengas Islands, Berlengas Natural Reserve, in Peniche
The Berlengas archipelago is a group of small islands 10 to 15 kilometers off the Portuguese coast, west of…
The Lapedo Valley and Lapedo Boy, Cross Between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, Archaeological Site
The Lapedo Valley is a great archaeological value of depression that is…
The Snow Wells, in Castanheira de Pera
There is only documented news from 1757 in charter of D. José…
Castle of Leiria
By consolidating his rule from 1128, the young D. Afonso Henriques (1112-1185),…
Leiria, The History
The region around Leiria has been inhabited for a long time, although…
