Idanha-a-Velha (Idanha "the old") is a village in the civil parish (freguesia) of Monsanto e Idanha-a-Velha, in the municipality of Idanha-a-Nova (Idanha...
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Former Cathedral of Idanha-a-Velha (Portuguese: Catedral de Idanha-a-Velha) is the decommissioned medieval Catholic cathedral of the former bishopric of Egitânia...
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(Portuguese: Cathedral de Idanha-a-Velha) Silves Cathedral/Former Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Portuguese: Sé-Catedral de Silves) Cathedrals of the...
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transfer the seat of the bishopric from nearby Egitania (Idanha-a-Velha) to Guarda. The first cathedral building, in Romanesque style, was soon substituted...
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was suppressed, its Cathedral of Idanha-a-Velha later converted into a mosque. In 1199 that was nominally restored as Diocese of Guarda, which claimed...
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Portuguese Romanesque architecture (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
examples of Mozarabic monuments in Portuguese territory are the Chapel of São Pedro de Balsemão in Lamego, the Cathedral of Idanha-a-Velha, with a more Visigothic...
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Castelo Branco, Portugal (redirect from Diocese of Castelo Branco)
Fundão, in the east by Idanha-a-Nova, in the south by Spain, in the southwest by Vila Velha de Ródão, and in the west by Proença-a-Nova and Oleiros. Castelo...
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(Condeixa-a-Velha, Condeixa-a-Nova) Roman Ruins of Egitânia (Idanha-a-Nova, Idanha-a-Nova) Roman Temple of Scallabis (Marvila, Santarém) Tower of Centum...
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Guarda, Portugal (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
this location was in Idanha-a-Velha, in Beira Baixa. It was from here that the gentile "egitanian", in relation to the natives of the city, took root....
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Portugal in the Reconquista (category History of Portugal)
Zêzere, Idanha-a-Nova, the Santiago castles of Monsanto, Abrantes, Santarém, the Hospitaller castle of Belver, the castle of Torres Novas, the Castle of Alverca...
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castle was damaged by the Lisbon earthquake, resulting in the "...loss of its cathedral, tower, castle and walls...", as identified by Moreira de Mendonça...
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The Castle of Almourol is a medieval castle atop the islet of Almourol in the middle of the Tagus River, located in the civil parish of Praia do Ribatejo...
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São Jorge Castle (redirect from Castle of Lisbon)
George's Castle, is a historic castle in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, located in the freguesia of Santa Maria Maior. Human occupation of the castle hill...
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years by the Postigo do Peixe (or Postigo da Alfândega Velha); the wall and west of the Gate of Olival, between 1853 and 1854; the Porta Nobre in 1872...
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The Castle of the Moors (Portuguese: Castelo dos Mouros) is a hilltop medieval castle located in the central Portuguese civil parish of Santa Maria e São...
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Francisco António and Joaquim Baptista, who brought in stone from Monsanto (Idanha-a-Nova), sand from Alfeite, calcium oxide cooked in Alcântara, tile from...
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The Castle of Alcácer do Sal (Portuguese: Castelo de Alcácer do Sal) is a medieval castle located in the civil parish of Alcácer do Sal (Santa Maria do...
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fortifications of the city Beja, encircled by landscaped gardens. Immediately nearby are the Sé Cathedral, Chapel of Santo Amaro, the building of the Hospital...
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Júdice (1997), "Ipses (Vila Velha)", in Faria, António Marques de; Barata, Maria Filomena (eds.), Noventa séculos entre a Serra e o Mar, Lisbon, Portugal:...
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The Castle of Alenquer (Portuguese: Castelo de Alenquer), is a Portuguese medieval castle in civil parish of Alenquer (Santo Estêvão e Triana), in the...
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for Angra, transferred from the Praça Velha for security reasons. Father António Cordeiro (1641-1722), wrote of the castle's ruins in his História Insulana...
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June 1161, in a transfer to the Church of São João do Souto, that included the walled spaces, and which passed metres from the Sé Cathedral. Around 1210...
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There were indications that a tower had existed near the site of the castle. In the 14th century cartulary of the Sé Cathedral of Évora, the primitive tower...
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It is classified as a National Monument. The 1810 explosion: the magazine which was the seat of the explosion was in the cathedral adjacent to the castle...
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The oldest reference to a tower on the site, remotes to 1096, part of the donation made by Abbey Pedro to the Sé Cathedral of Coimbra. The donation was...
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nucleus, of the medieval burg, comprising small houses, the castle (to north) and the cathedral (south). The castle, survived by extensive lines of walls...
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of the Sé Cathedral of Braga during the reign of Afonso III of Portugal, making the construction of the castle part of the repopulation strategy of the...
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