Barcelos seen from the sky and soil, together with interior views. The fair field where the Barcelos Fair is celebrated, the handicraft, a stroll through the medieval core, the first square of the city, the buildings that marked its history, some linked to other miracles of support for pilgrims to compostela. Barcelos is a city that thrills us, but also has also out of its urban center, some good surprises that are well worth being visited. It is the case for two Romanic chapels of the beginning of nationality, and a monastery whose interior left me surprised.
Although the main facade has been rebuilt during the eighteenth century, the axial portal maintained its manueline aesthetics (portuguese late gothic). Oak door with brass plated cushions pretending lion faces, built between 1694-95 by Carpenter S...
Public garden, baroque and neoclassical. Trapezoidal plant garden, developed in Socalcos, through two levels, still supporting the primitive public walk, the baroque wall of two three, ornate by urns with shelles and volutes, with two source and m...
Its origin is linked to the so-called "Miracle of the Cross", religious prodigy that occurred on December 20, 1504, linked to the emergence of a black cross at the Carvalhal of the "Fair Field". In order to protect this cross, a small temple of sq...
The Barcelos Fair is one of the largest, older and most admired in Portugal. It takes place every week, on Thursday, this day is many years of intense movement. Its history is very long, it will come from the 13th century, it is certain that the f...
This building is the result of a series of attachments, reforms and adds from the nucleus of the old Paços do Council, to which the great remodeling and expansion initiated in 1849 sought to give a certain unit. He clutched the former Hospital of ...
The Parish Church of Santa Maria Maior Current is a reconstruction of the 2nd XIV century barracks, on a Romanesque pre-existence, and was commissioned by the 3rd Count Barcelos d.Pedro Afonso, whose weapons are recorded in the archivolts of the a...
D.AFONSO Son Bastard of D.João I, house with D.Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, daughter of D.Nuno Álvares Pereira in November 1401, having received the village and castle of Chaves and the land of Barcelos. He then commands this ducal palace and the def...
Bridge Build by d.Pedro Afonso, 3rd Count of Barcelos in 1325. In 1450 the future 2nd Duque de Bragança, D.Fernando I, sends the bridge tower, on the same, in the entrance of Barcelos and the walls that the They surround. In 1631 the City Council ...
Gothic Palace of 1448 belonging to Dr. Pedro Esteves, a doctor in civil and canonical law by Salamanca, ombudsman of the lands of the house of Bragança and awards of the Condestaurant, D. Nuno Álvares Pereira. The last two floors were built at the...
Bridge Build by d.Pedro Afonso, 3rd Earl of Barcelos in 1325. In 1450 the future 2nd Duque de Bragança, D.Fernando I, sends the bridge tower, on the same, in the entrance of Barcelos and the walls that the They surround. In 1631 the City Council d...
Gothic tower warranted by D.Fonso 8th Count of Barcelos Between 1410 and 1461, along with the village's sour fence. Military, Gothic, Renaissance architecture. Tower of the old village wall, quadrangular plant, with four floors inwardly, being a r...
Its origin is linked to the so-called "Miracle of the Cross", religious prodigy that occurred on December 20, 1504, linked to the emergence of a black cross at the Carvalhal of the "Fair Field". In order to protect this cross, a small temple of sq...
Its origin is linked to the so-called "Miracle of the Cross", religious prodigy that occurred on December 20, 1504, linked to the emergence of a black cross at the Carvalhal of the "Fair Field". In order to protect this cross, a small temple of sq...
Its origin is linked to the so-called "Miracle of the Cross", religious prodigy that occurred on December 20, 1504, linked to the emergence of a black cross at the Carvalhal of the "Fair Field". In order to protect this cross, a small temple of sq...
