The Monastery of Paço de Sousa was founded in the 10th century. The current church was built in the 13th century in the Gothic style, the chancel, the sacristy, the cloister and what remains of the monastic building date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble was the target of interventions in the 19th (1883 and 1887) and 20th (1937-1939) centuries. Inside the church is one of the most beautiful pieces of national Romanesque sculpture: the tomb ark of Egas Moniz de Ribadouro, the legendary aide of D. Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal. It presents an architectural style in the transition between Romanesque and Gothic styles. The monastery comprises a Romanesque church of three naves of considerable proportions, in which a beautiful rose window stands out. Its layout influenced the entire Penafiel region, and it can be said that this temple fits in the style of other Romanesque monuments, such as those of Roriz, Gândara, Travanca and Pombeiro. Egas Moniz, preceptor of Afonso I of Portugal, is buried inside this monastery. Inside the tomb there is a small copper box with its funeral ashes. The tomb itself is a magnificent piece with high reliefs that depict D. Afonso Henriques' attendance to the court of the kingdom of Leão.

Stereo views of Philadelphia's most famous burial ground, on 11 November 2020

The municipality of Matosinhos belongs to the Province of Douro Litoral and the district of Porto and is located on the banks of the River Leça about 8 km from the center of Porto. It belongs to the Porto Metropolitan Area (corresponds to about 8% of that area) together with Vila Nova de Gaia, Maia and Gondomar, among others. Administratively, Matosinhos is divided into 10 parishes such as: Matosinhos, Senhora da Hora, Leça do Balio, S. Mamede Infesta, Custóias, Guifões, Leça da Palmeira, Perafita, Santa Cruz do Bispo and Lavra. In 2006 this municipality had about 170 000 inhabitants. The settlement of Matosinhos predates the foundation of Portuguese nationality, since it already existed in the year 900, being called Matesinus. The village of Matosinhos, formed by the parishes of Matosinhos and Leça, was created in 1853 and was elevated to a city in 1984. In this territory there are various traces of human action throughout the ages, the settlement of people in these lands started about 5000 years ago, during the Neolithic era, and until today our vestiges of the funerary monuments of that time have arrived. : the tapirs, whose most important nuclei would be located in Antela, Perafita, Guifões and S. Gens. At the end of the Bronze Age, a new type of habitat will expand - the castros, associated with a culture of its own characteristics that will last throughout the Iron Age. Even today, there are significant vestiges of castros in the municipality, especially in Guifões, which is located on the left bank of the river Leça, on Monte Castêlo. Due to its location (close to the sea and on an elevation over the old Leça estuary) it will have been a village dedicated to the exploitation of coastal resources and commercial activity. This castro will have been abandoned around the 4th / 5th century AD. The arrival of the Romans, about 2000 years ago, will cause profound structural changes such as the opening of roads (such as the Cale-Bracara road) and the construction of bridges. The Leça estuary and the Lavra area were, in this context, the most romanized places, where there are traces of a villae and salt and garum production structures (paste resulting from the maceration of several species of fish and molluscs with wine, olive oil and other products). Mention should be made of the Roman Tanks of Angeiras and Villa do Fontão - these are examples of Roman industrial architecture, composed of six sets of tanks of rectangular and trapezoidal shape, excavated in the rocky outcrop and dispersed over about 600 meters on Angeiras beach. These tanks were used for salting fish or for the production of garum. Between the rear of the Parish Church of Lavra and the beach were found the remains of an important archaeological station that was the central nucleus of the settlement of this parish during Roman times - it is an old Roman villa, it has not yet been the target of systematic excavations. In the High Middle Ages this territory was marked by the now-disappeared Bouças Monastery, which was the reason for the development of the entire population that would lead the administrative division of Julgado de Bouças, which is at the base of the current municipality of Matosinhos. Another important medieval monument is the Monastery of Leça do Balio which resulted from the expansion of an old building and which would become the original headquarters of the Knights Hospitalier of the Order of Malta. Its origin dates back to the 10th century, in an architecture of transition from Romanesque to Gothic style.

The Serralves house is a unique example of a villa-garden complex with art deco architecture. Built during the interval between the two world wars 1925-1940, with great decorative rigor and quality of materials, which involved the most famous architects and decorators of that time, such as Marques da Silva, Charles Siclis, Emile Ruhlmann, René Lalique, Edgar Brandt and the pasiagista Jacques Gréber. The Mata-Sete farm, which belonged to his mother Maria Emília Magalhães, had a romantic garden, a chapel from 1882 and a house from 1918. The history of Casa de Serralves began in the early 1920s after Carlos Alberto Cabral (1895-1968), 2nd Count of Vizela, inherited his family's summer farm. A cultured and well-traveled man, he had an attraction for modernity and cosmopolitan living.

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Built by the Jesuits in 1577 in a Baroque-Jesuit mannerist style, financed by donations from the faithful, as well as by Friar Luís Álvaro de Távora, Commander of Leça do Balio, of the Order of Malta, whose coat of arms atop the main facade, the Church and the São Lourenço Convent were erected with strong opposition from the city council and the population. However, the followers of Santo Inácio de Loyola ended up managing to found the highly sought after school with free classes, which quickly achieved a notable success. The population's opposition was not directed at the Jesuits, but at the college they intended to institute due to the privileges that citizens had that prevented the nobles and nobles from staying within the city for a period of more than three days. Thus, the school that was to be built would call children noble and noblemen who would necessarily have to reside in the city, but through some artifices of the religious the opposition of the bourgeois was overcome. With the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759, by order of the Marquis of Pombal, the church was donated to the University of Coimbra until its purchase by the Barefoot Friars of Santo Agostinho who stayed there from 1780 to 1832. These friars came from Spain in 1663, installing it was initially in Lisbon, on the site of Grilo, where they quickly gained the sympathy of the village, earning the name "friars-grilos", thus giving the name to the church where they were in Porto.

Aerial Views over Porto

In the heart of the historic center, on Rua das Flores, emerged one of the most important institutions in the city of Porto; the Confraternity of Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia founded in March 1499, following the recommendation and appeal of King D. Manuel I to the most important good man in the city. After several decades of existence, the confraternity was installed in the cloister of the Cathedral, and in 1550 on the 24th of June, Rua de Santa Catarina das Flores, opened in 1521, was permanently installed on the new street of the city. dispatch and a Renaissance style church, whose work will continue until 1590. The influence of the noble D.Lopo de Almeida, friend of Philip I and defender of the union of the two dynasties, was important.

The history of Livraria Lello e Irmão goes back to 1869, the year when Ernesto Chardron's International Bookstore was founded in Rua dos Clérigos. After Chardron's unexpected death at the age of 45, the publishing house was sold to Lugan & Genelioux Sucessores. In 1894 Mathieux Lugan sold Livraria Chardron to José Pinto de Sousa Lello, who then owned a bookstore on Rua do Almada. Associated with his brother, António Lello, they keep Livraria Chardron, under the name José Pinto de Sousa Lello & Irmão, until 1919, the year in which the name of the company changes to Lello & Irmão Lda. The current neo-Gothic style building , and designed by Engº Xavier Esteves (Ilhavo 1864-1944) was inaugurated in 1906, with the presence on the opening day of, among others, Guerra Junqueiro, José Leite de Vasconcelos and Afonso Costa. In 2008, the English newspaper The Guardian considered it the third most beautiful bookstore in the world. In 2011 Lonely Planet publisher considered it the third best bookstore in the world, and CNN in 2014 considered it the most beautiful bookstore in the world

Aerial views over Porto

Casa da Música is the first building built in Portugal dedicated exclusively to public presentations of different types of music, as well as spaces for rehearsing orchestras and other resident and visiting groups. Its construction is linked to the candidacy of Porto as European Capital of Culture in 1997, and its construction was announced in 1998. The project tender process was too short, which reduced the participation of 7 to 3 architects. In July 1999, Rem Koolhaas' project was accepted, and in December the project was delivered. In April 2005 the inaugural concert takes place. This building does not leave anyone indifferent, all the solutions used here are out of the ordinary, and its architecture is already an experience in itself, being an adventure for our senses to walk through the various interior spaces, and also observe them from the outside. I consider your visit mandatory.

Romanic church built on a pre-Romanic temple. Its initial construction is due to Count D. Henrique de Borgonha, it is therefore prior to the Kingdom of Portugal. It is an important example of the Romanesque style in Portugal, although difficult to decode, due to the various interventions throughout its life. This Church was built on a pre-Romanic temple from the 8th or 9th century. In 1100 the church and convent are offered by donation from the Burgundian Count D. Henry to the Benedictine Priory of La Charité-sur-Loire, of the order of Cluny. The Romanesque building was started, gaining greater prominence, in the mid-century. XII, with the support of King D. Afonso Henriques and under the tutelage of French monks. This is an appreciable example of the Romanesque style of our country, of robust construction, with three naves, a pseudo-transept and an interesting collection of sculptural motifs in the arches, portals and capitals. The eardrum has a representation of Christ in Majesty.

The village of Vila do Conde dates back to 953 the first documentary reference to the so-called committee villa, related to the sale of land today called Monte do Mosteiro to the Guimarães Monastery, and where the first inhabitants are believed to have settled. There was a count who lived in Azurara, "with the countess, his wife, of whom he had no children." Returning, once, from a long pilgrimage, sick and sensing death, the count vowed to let go of a white dove and , in the place where it landed, found a convent and a village to which it would give its name. The dove flew and landed in Alto de S.João, where the Count ordered the monastery to be built and the settlement around it, the story concludes. For a long time, the Count of this village was D. Mendes Pais Bofinho. In 953, the town appears under the name of Villa de Comite and Rofinho. Other historians claim that Count Belote was presor and grantee of Vila-Condense lands and that the origin of the toponym Villa de Comite comes from this count

Conimbriga, is an old settlement existing since the Copper Age (3300 to 1200 BC), which was an important center during the Roman Empire (10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants) and which after the barbarian invasions, remained inhabited until the 6th century, when Episcopal see went from Conimbriga to Coimbra. Conimbriga is seventeen kilometers south of Coimbra, and was next to the road that came from Sellium (Tomar) to Aeminum (Coimbra). Despite its condition of natural defense, this city has a point of vulnerability that is to depend on its water supply from an aqueduct with 3 km. That could be the main reason for their abandonment, since their survival would be at risk in the event of siege in the middle ages. Part of Conimbriga (part of the Condeixa-a-Velha houses) survived thanks to the existence of a small fountain located there.

A city of narrow streets, courtyards, stairs and medieval arches, Coimbra was the birthplace of six kings from Portugal and the First Dynasty, as well as the first University of the Country and one of the oldest in Europe. In the 12th century, Coimbra already had an urban structure, divided between the upper city, called Alta or Almedina, where aristocrats, clerics and, later, students lived, and Baixa, of commerce, artisans and neighborhoods riverside. Since the middle of the 16th century, the city's history has revolved around the history of the University of Coimbra, and it was only in the 19th century that the city began to expand beyond its walled hull, which even disappeared with the reforms carried out by the Marquis of Pombal at the end of the 18th century. These reforms will have a major impact, especially in the upper part of the city, where structures such as the Botanical Garden and some colleges of the University are created.