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This stroll começa in Castle of Vide, the medieval one, the flowery one. A village that, in saying of Raul Proença, é “as a small Pompeia that had been soterrada and now appeared the light of dia”. Of its antiquity it says first the charter one (1180). As Nisa, também Alfonso was palco of the fights between infant D. and King D. Dinis. In 1704, the Castilian troops had occupied it and destruÃram the defenses to it, then to follow reconstruÃdas. IN £o having huge monuments, the village valley for the harmonious set of the old part, where many of the streets and houses if conserve unbroken since sécs. XV and XVI.
The town is divided in two núcleos, the medieval one, in the proximity of the castle, and of sécs. XVII and XVIII, in the central part and lower, with the houses of cultivated aprons and guards of iron (tradição of the artesanato of forged iron was rich, of that today only one workshop exists).
Let us follow a passage advised pedestrian for the rank tourism. We are in the central part of the village, in Praça D. Peter V. Of the left side, in número 11, with windows with it would sing and tecto spotted, and in número 43 the house of the Club, in baroque of face ¡ to cter Spanish. To the deep a Church of S. João Baptista. To the side the Center of Saúde, in the house where Mouzinho of the Silveira was born. In front it is the first church, without alias process of opening, wide ship and vestibule of séc. XVIII, and the edifÃcio of the Câmara, dated of 1721, with beautiful chainses forged in its três windows of drawn, ample piramidal arches and coruchéu. Front the Câmara, the pillory.
We go up for the Street of Saint Maria até to the castle. For the way we observe vain ¡ you laugh carried ogivais and manuelinas, some denticulated and ornadas of balls.
The streets vão narrowing. Inside of the walls of the castle Lady of the seiscentistas tile Joy, lined visits the Church of Ours (to ask for the key in the Right Street of the Castle, 26, Mrs. D. Esperança).

Forçoso é to go up the house arrest under bail tower, from where the sighted panorama little differs from the described one for Raul Proença in its Guide of Portugal. ‰ a case almost único… Surrounding the wall of the castle, still it can see the hidding place of old the Paços of the Concelho, with broken arcs, ticos vestibules gà ³, mÃsulas and poiais of granite. Daà começa a Ãngreme descending, among flowers that blunt of any I sing, até the s spas, opened of May the October, whose ¡ guas são recommended for diabetes, hipertensão, doenças of fÃgado and intestines.

The return of the synagogue, the medieval Jewish quarter, since the door of the castle até the Source of the Village. As it writes down Jorge de Oliveira, To “the amplitude of this espaço can understand due the proximity of Castle of Vide with, border castelhana”. The Decree of 1442 promulgated by the Kings Search ³ heddles provoked one deslocação in mass of famÃlias mistreats that here they had looked refúgio and if they had installed. Datarà ¡ of this height the commercial and manufactureiro development of the village.
Stocking-it leans runs the road of the Circunvalação, of where if it enjoys a beautiful panorama. More ahead, the Church of S. Salvador of the World, quiçà ¡ oldest of the village, with blue and interior white tile covering, nominated two painéis representing to the “Escape for the Egipto”.

If its é sojourn more drawn out and é given to the fÃsico exercÃcio, Castle of Vide dispõe of a porting park, with covered swimming pool, opened all the year, field of shot, two fields you the ©nis, one pavilhão multipurpose and a field of soccer.
The way of Marvão we twirl for one of the most beautiful roads of the Alentejo, among bushes of castanheiros and walnuts, having of both the sides the cut line of the mountain range, where sà ³ if interferes some fifth. We cross Excuse, where a shelter house exists. It now goes to cross the fértil the Prado of Marvão. To far, começa to sight the majestical castle. After crossing one belÃssima tree-lined avenue of freixos, this ¡ in the Toll gate, crossed for the ribeira, on which it passes a bridge Roman. In return, a park covered of arvoredo, with esplanades, a restaurant, almost a natural swimming pool. E sales of good artesanato.
To follow the Toll gate, we go up for Marvão. Before entering in the village we find the Convent of Ours Lady of the Star, that the franciscanos had raised in 1448. Its setecentista chapel dispõe of a tecto one worked, tile walls, altar and floor in me ¡ rmore. Peçthe key of the chapel in the neighboring Asylum of the rdia Misericà ³, até the s 17 hours.
The fortified village arrived (the car leaves is). For ruelas narrow of calçada antiquÃssima it can find beautiful manuelinas windows, the Plaza of the Pillory, the Tower of the gio Relà ³. In the Street of the EspÃrito Saint hà ¡ two varandas with a beautiful work of forged iron.
To the top of a mountain of the Street of the EspÃrito Saint a fronteiro plaza confides castle, where if it finds the Church of Saint Maria, who lodges the Municipal Museum. Of the church little it remains, in £o to be, of the left side, an altar Ours Lady of the Rose ¡ river, with tiles of séc. XVIII, and a tecto painting, everything to need workmanships of conservação.
In the Museum, the images sacras, very old, enchant for the style fruste and ingénuo: Saint Bà ¡ rbara with a tower in me £o, pparently supreme Santa Catarina ¡ life, S. Sebastião, the Perpetual Priest, a Amaro Saint.
secção arqueolà ³ gica expõe material since the PaleolÃtico the s Ages of the Iron and Bronze, collected in the edges of the river Sever and the ribeira of the Shoe closet, in varied tapirs and lapas of Shelter of Vinhais. It presents também vestÃgios of perÃodo Roman, deriving of necrà ³ pole situated in the Farm of the Pigeon houses lost city of Amaia.
Small colecção etnogrà ¡ is presents a set traditional suits of concelho, nominated the cocaine, the romeira of nio Antà Saint ³ and the caleiros of Excuse.
We go up to the castle, the one that jà ¡ had called nest of ¡ guides, one of the most beautiful miradouros of Portugal. The sight prolongates até lands of Spain.
fortificação dominates the village, a military field developed during ocupação ¡ rabe and reconquered by D. Alfonso Enriques in 1166, kept for D. Dinis and widened for D. João IV.
If in the tourism rank, with tica people simpà ¡, to obtain to it to find the keys, valley the penalty to visit the church and the Church of Santiago first. The first conserve since séc. XIV the tica chapel-mor gà ³, being posterior três ships; gà has two ticas sculptures ³ of rock policroma. Second it offers monocromos tiles and it keeps to one sacrà ¡ renascentista river with paintings in wood.

In direcção the Portalegre, we advise it that ignores the uninteresting national road. Valley more to put themselves for the way of the mountain range and to discover its quiet world. For such, in the Toll gate it crosses the bridge and, next to the Sever restaurant, it comes back the right toward the “Espada Port”. Here it finds the house vinÃcola of João Sequeira Carloso, producer of a magnÃfico aramenha appointed wine, that in £o é cil fan ¡ to glimpse in the given market scarce produção. It looks it and perhaps it obtains bottles, giving preferência to tinto of vindima of 1993.

Portalegre is hidden enters vain ¡ laughs estratificações that the different ages had left in the fabric urban. DifÃcil E to discover the mistérios to it, in such a way more than in £o hà ¡ guide of the city, at least a simple plant to guide the visitors. However, valley the penalty to try a route, because Portalegre locks up one of the best sets of visor ¡ ruttings and houses solarengas of seven hundred and eight hundred. “Of tipologias varied, vão building the great houses, with an habitability of dominant horizontal line, windows in série and an interior sociability familiar macro: of the extensive famÃlia of those times of the Old Regimen € ” the father and me £e, the children, the ancestral livings creature, the criadagem and protegidos”.

As none serviço of tourism the aid in the city, we establish a small script, for what we were helped by the Prof. Tapir ³ nio Happiness.
Who comes of the south, of ‰ vora, or of Lisbon for Estremoz, entering for the Door of the Alegrete in the wall of the city, it finds, turning the right, the Praça of the República. Valley the penalty to look to the House Museum José Régio, in the street homà ³ nima of the poet who sang
The “Portalegre, city of the High Alentejo, surrounded of mountain ranges, winds, cliffs, oliveiras and sobreiros”. In the house, the “old, great, coarse and beautiful one, Which wanted as if it are done to live nela”, the espÃrito of the poet hangs. In the shady environment of the rooms and the room of work, conserved such it left them to which, one comes across us a surprising museum of art sacra. São 400 images of Christ, predominantly in wood, one of which of séc. XIV.
In the Praça of the República, the Câmara this ¡ to install one espaço of público convÃvio. Let us admire the façades of the Visor ¡ rutting of the Conde de Avilez, today headquarters of the PSP, with baroque signals, and of Solar of sà ³ the more bria Acchilli, feição, where the Superior School of Educação functions. For the Door of S. Francisco, for where Filipe II of Spain entered, we find the Convent of Saint Augustin, today headquarters of the GNR, one of the oldest buildings of the city, dated of 1275, whose church jà ¡ little remains, in £o to be the vestibule, the body of the ship and the altar-mor in me ¡ rmore.
Perhaps we pass the Praça Serpa Young chicken, to admire the most beautiful visor ¡ rutting of the city, of the Barahona, construção of séc. XIX where if it keeps the District Archive. In the CasaAlentejano, in the Street Garrett, the artesanato in forged iron can redescobrir, including hangers, fronts of fireplace and candelabra.
Close, the Café Alentejano, reminiscência of modernista style, as, in front, the headquarters of the General Box of Depà ³ sitos, to make esquina with the manuelina house of D. Nuno de Sousa with its magnÃfica quinhentista window, cultivated in granite.
Daà can go down the Praça of the MunicÃpio, coração of the old city, with the Sé and the Episcopal Paço, the edifÃcio Phillipino who é headquarters of the Câmara, old seminà ¡ river of séc. XVI, today Municipal Museum, and one marries senhorial front the Sé.
The Sé começou to be construÃda in 1550, when D. João III granted to the Portalegre the charter one of city and the Pope instituted it diocese. Sà ³ one século later é that was finished, in time bispado it of Amateur Frei Arrais, that destined for its rich interior artÃstico ornament. The façade has três baroque vestibules and two sineiras towers. The church consists in três ships. The altars são in golden cut and present maneirista painting ornaments. Claustro, poor, contém tiles of séc. XVI.
‰ penalty the Sé in £o to have more luminosity to facilitate observação of the treasures that hides, as the straight line ¡ bulos and paintings of the lateral altars. This painting constitutes good espà ³ lio of the italianizante maneirista style, workmanship of Portuguese painters of sécs. XVI and XVII. colecção of excellent é images, being distinguished a sculpture of rock policroma of séc. XIV, of Saint Maria.
The Convent of Bernardine São é one of the most important cistercienses monasteries of Portugal. Established in the sÃtio of the Eira for the bishop of Guarda, one says that run away for Portalegre for wool ¡ to be the “land where they killed bispos”, of its name D. Jorge de Meio. Sir who if had in high merit, ordered to construct in the church of the convent a sumptuoso túmulo with its figure. Of this, Filipe II would have said: The “great river steamer you £o small Pará ¡ ssaro”. The convent has espà ³ lio of tiling and two claustros, but the visit this ¡ compromised by ocupação of the GNR.
Valley the penalty to enter in the Church of S. Lourenço, jà ¡ close to the Rossio. Of very simple façade, it hides a coated ship the blue and white tiles and a rich baroque altar-mor with straight line ¡ bulo of exuberant golden cut. If to want to dislocate itself leans It in £o urbanizada of Portalegre, can appreciate the Santuà ¡ river of N.S. of the Penalty, visÃvel, in its brancura, of all the city. Place of peregrinação and pilgrimage, keeps its popular singeleza, as you arrest they certify them collected in payment of promises.

In the Park of the Corredoura, the Manufactura de Tapeçarias de Portalegre of ¡ continuity the s tradições of the weaving of the FAN ¡ brica Real created for the Marquês de Pombal. There tapeçarias from workmanships of contemporâneos artists are executed.

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