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.
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 Church of Santa Maria Major Current is a reconstruction of the 2nd quarter of the 14th century, 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...
The Church of Santa Maria Major Current is a reconstruction of the second quarter of the fourteenth century, on a Romanesque pre-existence, and was commissioned by the 3rd Count Barcelos D.Pedro Afonso, whose weapons are recorded in the archivolts...
The Church of Santa Maria Major Current is a reconstruction of the second quarter of the fourteenth century, on a Romanesque pre-existence, and was commissioned by the 3rd Count Barcelos D.Pedro Afonso, whose weapons are recorded in the archivolts...
The Church of Santa Maria Major Current is a reconstruction of the second quarter of the fourteenth century, on a Romanesque pre-existence, and was commissioned by the 3rd Count Barcelos D.Pedro Afonso, whose weapons are recorded in the archivolts...
The Church of Nossa Senhora do Terço of Barcelos is truly a baroque style jewel not only by his hoist but also by the tiles that coat the totality of the walls, the ceiling and the paintings. Inside guests one of the most beautiful pulpits of Port...
The Church of Nossa Senhora do Terço of Barcelos is truly a baroque style jewel not only by his hoist but also by the tiles that coat the totality of the walls, the ceiling and the paintings. Inside guests one of the most beautiful pulpits of Port...
The Church of Nossa Senhora do Terço of Barcelos is truly a baroque style jewel not only by his hoist but also by the tiles that coat the totality of the walls, the ceiling and the paintings. Inside guests one of the most beautiful pulpits of Port...