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Church of St. Dominic

The Church of Santo Domingo de Elvas is located in the parish of Help, Saviour and St. Ildefonso of the Alentejo town in Portugal.The church, previously a part of a Dominican convent founded in the thirteenth century, is a great representative of Gothic architecture beggar in the region of Alentejo.It is classified as a National Monument by the Government Order of June 16, 1910.The Convent of Santo Domingo de Elvas was founded in 1267 by order of D. Afonso III, after the second and final reconquest of the town.The place chosen was next to the Chapel of Our Lady of Martyrs, currently lacking, where they had been buried the Christians killed in the village taking the Moors.The foundation of the convent was therefore linked to the need to affirm the Christian faith in the old Muslim town.In the convent were built in a local inn and a hospice (hospital).

Elvas Castle

The Castle of Elvas, in Alentejo, located in the City and County of Elvas, Portalegre District, in Portugal.Lindeira erected in the area at the top of a hill in a dominant position on the town and the River Guadiana, includes an impressive defensive set erected over the centuries.In the Middle Ages, the role of the castle was further expressed in the invocation of the city coat of arms: Custodi dominate us, ut pupilam oculi (Keep us, Lord, as the pupil of the eye).He is now considered as one of the best examples of the historical evolution of military architecture in the country.Prospecting archaeological showed that early human occupation of this site dates back to a fort Gallo- Celtic, enjoyed by the Romans that the urbanized from the second century BC, in order there to meet some of the roads that cut through the south of the Iberian peninsula.The village was then known as the Helvas.Some authors include a witness of this period a door inside the castle, to which Roman constructive features attribute.

Fort of Santa Luzia

The Fort of Santa Luzia, in Alentejo, located in the region of Elvas, in Portugal.Along with the Forte da Piedade, the Fort of San Francisco, the Forte de Sao Mamede and Fort San Pedro, was part of the defense of the fort of Elvas-Square.It goes back to the context of the War of Restoration of Portuguese independence, when it was originally scratched by Matias de Albuquerque (1641).In the same year would be redesigned in Moth Sebastian Frias, when he received the shape of a star polygon.The Genoese Rozzeti Hieronimo drew her new project (1642), which caused friction that led to the discord of the French engineer Charles Lassart.It was finally completed and opened in 1648.Along with the other fortifications of his defensive system, during the Battle of the Lines of Elvas successfully resisted the heavy siege that was imposed from October 22 of 1658 to January 14 of 1659, the Spanish army under the command of D.Luis de Haro.

Municipal Museum of Photography John Carpenter

is a museum of photography located in the Portuguese town of Elvas in the District of Portalegre.Situated in the former building of the Central Cinema.It has exhibition halls, including the room of the History of Photography, the room and the room of the Collector's Collection.It also has a laboratory for development of black and white and a small library-themed photography.The bank of images has about 2750 photos (scanned) of Elvas Military, Religious, Monumental and other activities and events connected with the city.

Ethnographic Museum of Arcozelos

The Ethnographic Museum of Arcozelos located in the parish of Arcozelos in the county of Tondela, District of Viseu in Portugal.The museum displays to the public as a permanent exhibition, a house of traditional rural interior of the country through the rebuilding of a home farm of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, including the call shop of the pig, the store of cows, the store of grain, the wine cellar, the kitchen, and the smaller the 4th characteristic of the era in which the beds were no more than easels on which were placed one on these boards and a mattress of straw.Reconstitution museum was made with the use of a house at the time in masonry of stone and wood, which was in ruins and was rebuilt and re-qualified.The Museum resulted from the initiative at local level, the Recreation and Cultural Arcozelense Association (ARCA).

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