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The vast history of the territory of the Euro-Region Galicia and the North of Portugal has enabled the footprints of the different settlers to be still perceptible these days. It is enriching to be able to visit the prehistoric monuments of these regions, for a better understanding of how life centuries ago was.
The vast history of the territory of the Euro-Region Galicia and the North of Portugal has enabled the footprints of the different settlers to be still perceptible these days. It is enriching to be able to visit the prehistoric monuments of these regions, for a better understanding of how life centuries ago was.
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Of kings, bishops and monks<br />
The middle ages<br />
1. Principal church Viana do Castelo<br />
2. Church of Leça do Balio (Matosinhos)<br />
3. Principal Church (Barcelos)<br />
with a main façade still Romanesque<br />
but pointing out to Gothic traces in the<br />
inside, divided into three naves with<br />
pointed arcades. South of this church,<br />
towards the river, one can find the ruins<br />
of the former palace of the Counts<br />
of Barcelos, a county created in 1298<br />
by king Dinís, the first one awarded<br />
after the Portuguese independence. The<br />
palace was built at the beginning of<br />
the 15th century by Afonso, the bastard<br />
son of João I of Portugal, eighth Count<br />
of Barcelos and first Duke of Bragança.<br />
At the time, it was thought as a hybrid<br />
between palace and castle, from which<br />
only the ruins of the residential part<br />
with its characteristic chimneys, but not<br />
the tower, are maintained, due to the<br />
damages caused by the earthquake<br />
of Lisboa in 1755 and the subsequent<br />
abandonment. The demolition of the<br />
ruins was even ruled, something that<br />
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