Tips 1 - 7 of 7 Covilhã Things to Do
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Things To Do: Museu dos Lanificios
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The Wool Fabrics Museum (Museu dos Lanificios) is quite an interesting place to visit. The entrance fee is cheap - 2euros/person (children don't pay) and it includes a guided visit through the Museum. Fortunately, we arrived late and missed the guided tour, so we were able to explore the Museum by ourselves (I must confess I don't enjoy guided tours, ...). A quiet tour through the small Museum takes at the most 45m to 1h. On your way in you will be given a leaflet with some explanations about the Museum and you will be able to watch a videotape on the Wool treatment process - ever since the wool is taken from the sheep until it goes into machines to be turned into fabrics. No photos allowed inside the Museum.
The Museum is opened:
. Tuesday and Wednesday: 2.30pm to 6pm
. Thursday to Sunday and Bank Holidays: 10am to 12pm, and 2.30pm to 6pm.
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Things To Do: Museu dos Laníficios - II
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The building where the Museum is it's actually the ancient factory where wool was treated - from the rough wool that comes out of the sheep, until the dyed wool that goes into the manual machines to make fabrics. While visiting the Museum, apart from shelves and pictures where you can read about the process and admire old pictures and ancient artefacts, you will be walking close to the wells were the wool was dyed. Water played an important role on this process and that is why this city grew close to water streams. Another interesting thing to observe on this Museum are the nature pigments used to make the colours.
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Things To Do: Igreja Nª Srª de Fátima
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If you visit Museu dos Lanificios, then you should also visit this church, as it is just across the street, on the left side as you leave the Museum. It is nice on the outside, with the 2 belfries, but unfortunately we didn't visit the church inside as it was Mass time and we didn't want to disturb. This area was recently refurbished (in year 2000) and now looks very pleasant with the marble stairs and benches. The church itself dates from 1940.
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Things To Do: City Hall
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The City Hall seemed to us as the central point of the historical city centre, from which everything else happened. The building itself is very nice, mainly at night when it is all illuminated. In front of the City Hall there is a new square with some white marble modern sculpture – some kind of columns, some taller and some smaller that make a kind of roundabout in the cobbled road. Around the City Hall there are some other buildings with interesting architecture, worth looking at.
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Things To Do: Igreja da Misericórdia
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This church was built in 1601 and it is said to have a high historical meaning. Inside the church you may see some beautiful works in carved wood. The church is opened and may be visited inside, but it has an interesting “characteristic”: Mass is celebrated in this church only during Holy Week. This church is opposite to City Hall square, in the historical city centre.
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Things To Do: Igreja Santa Maria
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This interesting church was built in the 16th century and was back then called Chapel Santa Maria do Castelo. In late 19th century it was refurbished and acquired some Baroque style details, such as a niche with Our Lady. Back then it wasn’t covered in tiles as we can see it nowadays. Those beautiful white and blue tiles were added in the forties (20th century) and they depict scenes of Our Lady’s daily life. Inside the church you will notice that there are 11 altarpieces, 5 of which dedicated to Our Lady. The high belfry was our guide to find the church, since while in main square, we could see it behind the City Hall. After going through some really narrow streets we found this outstanding piece of architecture and art.
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Things To Do: Serra da Estrela
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Covilhã is located in the Serra da Estrela area – a beautiful mountain in central Portugal. This mountain has the highest point in mainland Portugal – about 2.000 m above sea level – and Covilhã is just about 20km from that point, called Torre. Along the winding and narrow road that connects Covilhã to Torre, you will come across several belvederes or viewpoints. Some of them are identified with name and altitude but most of them are just a "space" by the road where you might park the car and approach the cliffs. The views from these places are gorgeous. The mountain is big, strong, rocky, deserted, … imposing!!!! The air is fresh and pure, … we stopped in loads of viewpoints as we couldn't get tired of the fantastic views. I highly recommend driving through the mountain, if you are in Covilhã.
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global84 Mon Aug 7, 2006 23:47 UTC
Great information! | iandsmith Wed Nov 17, 2004 01:31 UTC
Quality pages, well done. | Bwana_Brown Wed Aug 25, 2004 23:21 UTC
A very comprehensive and informative page on Covilha! It makes me wish that we had been able to slow down to enjoy it a bit as we rushed through to the Serra da Estrela!! | dr.firas Sat Aug 14, 2004 16:33 UTC
Superb, nothing surprising me anymore with your sweet great pages ;-)) XXX |
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