Museums, Monuments and Sites Casa Museu Miguel Torga Centro Português do Surrealismo Address: Praceta Fernando Pesssoa, nº 33030 Coimbra Address: Praça D. Maria II4760-111 Vila Nova de Telephone: +351 239 781 345 Famalicão Telephone: +351 252 301 650 Fax: +351 252 301 669 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.turism odecoimbra.pt/company/casa-museu-miguel-torga/ E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://www.cupertino.pt/ Timetable: ; Other informations: Characteristics and Services: Monday to Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to Guided Tours; 6:00 p.m. Accessibility: Saturdays and holidays: 14h00 - 18h00 (during the period of Disabled access; Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to temporary exhibitions) the entrance: Total; Accessible entrance: Partial; Reception area Closed on Sundays, weekends, August and on January 1; Good suitable for people with special needs; Accessible areas/services: friday; 1st May; August 15th; 8, 24 and 25 December. Toilets, Auditorium; Care skills: Visual impairment, Hearing Characteristics and Services: impairment, Motor disability, Mental disability; Shops; Guided Tours; Accessibility: Disabled access; Accessible route to the entrance: Total; Miguel Torga House Museum Accessible entrance: Total; Reception area suitable for people with special needs; Accessible circulation inside: Total; The Miguel Torga House Museum was inaugurated on 12 August Accessible areas/services: Shop, Toilets, Auditorium; Accessible 2007. Its main aim is to provide the visitor with knowledge of the information: Information panels; Poet's work as shown through one of the most emblematic places of his life, namely his own home. Museu de Cerâmica Artística da Fundação Castro Miguel Torga, the greatest name in 20th century Portuguese literature, lived in this house since the early 1950s, until January Alves 1995. This space offers in particular cultural activities for the Address: Rua Comendador Castro Alves - N. 3914765-053 general public, guided tours and educational programmes. Bairro Vila Nova de Famalicão Telephone: +351 252 931 053 E-mail: [email protected] Website: Museu da Indústria Têxtil da Bacia do Ave https://www.fundacaocastroalves.org/ Address: Rua José Casimiro da Silva - Outeiro4760-355 CalendárioVila Nova de Famalicão Timetable: Telephone: +351 252 313 986 Fax: +351 252 377 110 Monday to Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to E-mail: [email protected] Website: 5:00 p.m. https://www.museudaindustriatextil.org/ Saturday: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (by appointment) Closed on the weekend and holidays; Timetable: Characteristics and Services: Tuesday to Friday: 10h00 - 17h30 Shops; Guided Tours; weekend: 14h30 - 17h30 Closed on Mondays and holidays; Other informations: Free entrance Museu Virtual Aristides de Sousa Mendes Website: http://mvasm.sapo.pt Characteristics and Services: Guided Tours; Dedicated to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul Accessibility: in Bordeaux during the Second World War, this Virtual Museum Disabled access; Accessible route to the entrance: Total; Accessible entrance: Partial; Accessible circulation inside: Partial; tells the story and background to his acts of disobedience Accessible information: Items for tactile exploration; regarding the guidelines issued by the Portuguese government. Consciously ignoring the guidelines received, Aristides de Sousa Mendes signed visas enabling around 30,000 people, of various Museu Nacional Ferroviário - Núcleo de Lousado nationalities, predominantly Jewish, to escape from Nazi Address: Largo da Estação - Lousado4760-623 Vila Nova persecution. de Famalicão Telephone: +351 252 153 646 Fax: +351 252 153 606 The exhibition, constituted by hitherto unseen films and E-mail: [email protected] documents pertaining to Portuguese and foreign archives, is Website: https://www.fmnf.pt subdivided into three corridors, structured in a chronological and Timetable: sequential order– War Corridor, Flight Corridor and Freedom Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Weekends and holidays: 14h30 - 17.30 Corridor. The latter emphasises the places where refugees were Closed on Mondays, Easter, and from 24 to 27 December; harboured in Portugal, which in addition to Lisbon and Coimbra Other informations: 2013 Turismo de Portugal. All rights reserved. 1/280 [email protected] Free entrance included bathing resorts and thermal spa such as Estoril, Sintra, Characteristics and Services: Cascais, Caldas da Rainha, Figueira da Foz, Luso, Buçaco and Shops; Guided Tours; Accessibility: Curia. Disabled access; Accessible route to the entrance: Partial; Reception area suitable for people with special needs; Accessible The Museum also has a Knowledge Base in which it is possible to circulation inside: Partial; Accessible areas/services: Shop, consult documents, photographs and oral statements by the Toilets, Auditorium; refugees saved by Aristides de Sousa Mendes. Alentejo Alandroal Castelo de Alandroal Castelo de Terena Address: Largo da Matriz Address: Rua Direita - Terena The huge keep dominates the castle and the town. Of particular Terena Castle interest here is the gate flanked by towers and a horseshoe arch, The small-scale Terena Castle, is currently a walled area that built of local marble. Close by is the parish church of Nossa houses important buildings such as the Keep and a main Senhora da Graça. entrance flanked by two towers. Fortaleza de Juromenha Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Assunção da Boa Address: Juromenha Nova Address: Boa Nova - Terena The bulwarked fortifications built during the War of Restoration, Telephone: +351 26844101 enclosing the Fortress of Juromenha, moved the nation’s line of defence much closer to the River Guadiana, a natural border Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Assunção da Boa Nova between Portugal and Spain. The Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Assunção da Boa Nova is a Gothic style fortress-church - one of the few examples of such The surviving remnants of the Fortress include ruins of the constructions in Portugal. former Chamber and Senate House. It was commissioned in the 14th century by Queen D. Maria, wife of Afonso XI of Castille and daughter of the Portuguese king D. Afonso IV, in fulfilment of a promise made in the event of Portuguese victory against the Moors in the Battle of Salado. It is classified as a National Monument. The pilgrimage associated to the Sanctuary, that takes place on Easter Sunday and Monday is the oldest in the Alentejo region and is related to the "Songs of Santa Maria" of Afonso X. Alcácer do Sal Castelo de Alcácer do Sal Ermida do Senhor dos Mártires Address: Alcácer do Sal Address: Santa Maria do Castelo 7580 Alcácer do Sal Some sections still remain of the mud and stone wall that once Hermitage of Senhor dos Mártires surrounded the town. The central fortress was adapted to form a Incineration necropolis dating from the Iron Age. convent. Igreja de Santiago You can still see the ruins of the Convent and Church of Santa Address: R.Dr. Nobre 7580 Alcácer do Sal Maria do Castelo, built in the Romanesque-Gothic style of the Telephone: +351 265 622 213 13C. Timetable: Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo - Alcácer do Sal Every day: 10am - 1pm 2.30 - 6.30pm; Situated in lower Alcácer do Sal, the church interior is covered in Address: Castelo 7580 Alcácer do Sal 18th century tiles which tell the story of some of the miracles 2013 Turismo de Portugal. All rights reserved. 2/280 [email protected] Built within the castle walls, perhaps on the site of the former carried out by St James. mosque, a stone sculpture over the façade features the symbols of the Order of Santiago: the crossed-sword, shells (scallops) and Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Assunção - the hat and garb of a pilgrim recalling the holy warrior Santiago. Torrão Address: Largo da Matriz 7595 Torrão - Alcácer do Sal One of the lateral chapels is of particular note with its magnificent tiles from the early part of the 17th century. Church from the 16th c., modified in the 17h c. in baroque style. Igreja de Santo António - Alcácer do Sal Address: Largo de São Francisco 7580-110 Alcácer do Sal Located on the upper Rossio, the church of Santo António is all that remains of the Franciscan convent that bore the same name. Entrance is gained through an attractive porch displaying renaissance features. Once inside, take a look at the lateral nave in white Estremoz marble, added between 1555 and 1565, and the chapel of Eleven Thousand Virgins, capped by a cupola covered in the same marble to create a cooling sense of transparency. Aljustrel Museu Municipal de Aljustrel Núcleo Rural de Ervidel Address: Rua de São João de Deus, 19 7600-116 Aljustrel Address: Rua do Poço 7600 Ervidel Telephone: +351 284 600 170 Fax: +351 284 600 179 Telephone: +351 284 645 247 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Timetable: Timetable: Summer (1 June / 15 September) – Tuesday to Friday: 9.30am – Summer (15 June / 15 September) - Tuesday: 2pm – 5pm; 12.30pm / 5pm – 7pm; Saturday: 10am – 12pm / 2pm – 5pm; Wednesday to Friday: 10am – 12pm / 2pm – 5pm; Saturday and Sunday_ 2pm – 6pm Closed: Monday and holidays Winter (16 Sunday: 2pm – 5.30pm Closed: Monday, 13 June and holidays September / 30 May) – Tuesday to Friday: 10am – 12.30pm / Winter (16 September / 14 June) – Tuesday to Saturday: 2pm – 2pm – 6pm; Saturday: 10am – 12pm / 2pm – 5pm Closed: 5.30pm; Sunday: 10am – 12.30pm / 2pm – 5pm Closed: Monday Sunday, Monday and holidays; and holidays; Accessibility: Characteristics and Services: Disabled access; Guided Tours; Characteristics and Services: Guided Tours; The collection of pieces on display at the Municipal Archaeological Museum in Aljustrel consists of a wide range of different materials found during archaeological digs undertaken in the region. Most of the minerals and rocks on display were collected from the mines of Aljustrel, Neves-Corvo and São Domingos. Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Castelo - Aljustrel Address: Ermida de Nossa Senhora do Castelo Aljustrel Telephone: +351 284 600 070 Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora do Castelo There is widespread popular worship of Nossa Senhora do Castelo, the Patron Saint of Castelo.