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Direção-Geral do Património Cultural

Index Direção-Geral do Património Cultural

The Direção-Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC), formerly Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR) and Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico (IPPAR), (Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage) is a Directorate-General of Government of Portugal tasked with the conservation, preservation, and inventory of Portuguese architectural heritage. [1]

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Alcobaça Monastery

The Alcobaça Monastery (Mosteiro de Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça) is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Alcobaça, in Oeste Subregion.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Batalha Monastery

The Monastery of Batalha (Mosteiro da Batalha), literally the Monastery of the Battle, is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, in the district of Leiria, in the Centro Region of Portugal.

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Batalha, Portugal

Batalha is a town and a municipality in Leiria District, Pinhal Litoral Subregion, Centro Region, Portugal.

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Belém (Lisbon)

Belém, whose name is derived from the Portuguese word for Bethlehem, is the southwesternmost civil parish (freguesia) of the municipality of Lisbon.

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Belém Tower

Belém Tower (Torre de Belém) or the Tower of St Vincent is a fortified tower located in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Church of Santa Engrácia

The Church of Santa Engrácia (Igreja de Santa Engrácia) is a 17th-century monument in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (Corumbriga)) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal (after Lisbon, Porto, Braga), it is the largest city of the district of Coimbra, the Centro region and the Baixo Mondego subregion. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and extending into an area. Among the many archaeological structures dating back to the Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, are its well-preserved aqueduct and cryptoporticus. Similarly, buildings from the period when Coimbra was the capital of Portugal (from 1131 to 1255) still remain. During the Late Middle Ages, with its decline as the political centre of the Kingdom of Portugal, Coimbra began to evolve into a major cultural centre. This was in large part helped by the establishment the University of Coimbra in 1290, the oldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speaking world. Apart from attracting many European and international students, the university is visited by many tourists for its monuments and history. Its historical buildings were classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2013: "Coimbra offers an outstanding example of an integrated university city with a specific urban typology as well as its own ceremonial and cultural traditions that have been kept alive through the ages.".

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Convent of Christ (Tomar)

The Convent of Christ (Convento de Cristo/Mosteiro de Cristo) is a former Roman Catholic convent in Tomar, Portugal.

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Council of Ministers (Portugal)

The Council of Ministers (Conselho de Ministros, or) is a collegial executive body within the Government of Portugal.

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Government of Portugal

The Government of Portugal is one of the four sovereignty bodies of the Portuguese Republic, together with the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic and the courts.

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Jerónimos Monastery

The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos), is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal; it was secularised on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa.

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Monastery of Santa Cruz (Coimbra)

The Santa Cruz Monastery (English: Monastery of the Holy Cross, Mosteiro de Santa Cruz), best known as Igreja (Church) de Santa Cruz, is a National Monument in Coimbra, Portugal.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley

The Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley is an open-air Paleolithic archaeological site located in a region of northeastern Portugal, near the border with Spain.

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Tomar

Tomar, also known in English as Thomar, is a city and a municipality in Santarém District in Portugal.

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DGPC, Direcao-Geral do Patrimonio Cultural, IGESPAR, IPPAR, Instituto Portugues do Patrimonio Arquitectonico, Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico, Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direção-Geral_do_Património_Cultural

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