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"Arte na Calçada Portuguesa"

Detalhe da calçada no Largo do Toural Photo: ©Roc2c location: Guimarães, Braga

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Cape - Espichel Cape

The ensemble called the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Pedra Mua , implanted in the extremity of the Cape Espichel, is undoubtedly the most important and characteristic of the municipality. There are precious in this aggregate of buildings , from the ancient chapel of the Church Memory seventeenth century , since the bodies of the rustic " host " to the aqueduct and the " Water House " , a unit of graphic values ​​that made ​​him forget the disparity of styles. The cult of Our Lady of the Cape is lost in the mists of time and it is conceivable that prior to his worship - from the fifteenth century - was the Cape Espichel pilgrimage center . The present culture dates back to around 1410 , the year that would have been discovered at the end of Cape Espichel the venerated image of Our Lady of the Cape , two old and Alcabideche da Caparica , which dreams would have been advised by coincident Before H...