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Vila Real, with over 700 years of history, has privileged access to the world heritage site, the Alto Douro Wine Region. With its unique landscapes and places, it is an ideal destination for its gastronomy, biodiversity, heritage and culture.<\/p>\n
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Green spaces:<\/p>\n
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Vila Real offers a wide variety of spaces to visit and relax in. If you like hiking, you can take the Corgo Nature Trails, also known as walkways. If you want to relax with family or friends, you can go to Jardim da Carreira, Parque Corgo or Parque Florestal. If you want to visit nature, you can choose to visit the Alv\u00e3o Natural Park.<\/p>\n
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Museums:<\/p>\n
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If you want to get to know Vila Real better, we suggest you visit the city’s museums.<\/p>\n
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The Vila Velha Museum is a corollary of the archaeological campaigns carried out in recent years in Vila Real. The Museum of Archaeology and Numismatics offers visitors permanent exhibitions of numismatics and archaeology. The Museum of Sound and Image preserves the important collection of the old Avenida Theatre and all the donated pieces.<\/p>\n
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Theater:<\/p>\n
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The Municipal Theatre of Vila Real makes it possible to present spectacles of great scope, quality and diversity to the public, ensuring a great intense cultural offer of recognized merit<\/p>\n
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Heritage:<\/p>\n
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Vila Real is rich in cultural and religious heritage. If you like history and wine, or it’s a subject that interests you, we suggest a visit to the Casa de Mateus.<\/p>\n
For religious heritage, we recommend a visit to the Church of Miseric\u00f3rdia, the Church of S\u00e3o Pedro, the Church of S. Domingos (Vila Real Cathedral), the Church of S\u00e3o Paulo, also known as the New Chapel, the Chapel of S\u00e3o Br\u00e1s and the Tomb of Teixeira de Macedo.<\/p>\n
Other points of interest in Vila Real are: the Tower of Quintela, Casa Diogo C\u00e3o, Casa dos Marqueses and the Sanctuary of Pan\u00f3ias.<\/p>\n
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Since 2016, the Black Pottery of Bisalh\u00e3es has been on UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. The Municipality of Vila Real has implemented a safeguarding plan, ranging from training potters, certifying the process and encouraging the emergence of new uses and designs for this unique material.<\/p>\n
As a rule, every farmhouse in the region had a loom. Thus, Linhos de Agarez are a type of handicraft that you can find in this region.<\/p>\n
Tinwork is an activity that uses tin materials to create traditional tools. A craft still found in Vila Real.<\/p>\n
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Gastronomy:<\/p>\n
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When you think of Vila Real you think of covilhetes, which are a kind of pie shaped like black bisalh\u00e3es clay. Maronesa meat is another of Vila Real’s highlights, an extremely tasty and succulent meat. There are also the typical sweets of Vila Real, the pitos de Santa Luzia, the ganchas de S\u00e3o Br\u00e1s and the Cristas de Galo. Not forgetting the wines, which due to their nature, the vineyards cultivated by traditional processes produce grapes of excellent quality.<\/p>\n
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