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Tower Bridge and Gothic Ucanha (Tarouca) (***)-The most beautiful bridge in Portugal

March 9, 2011 by Castile
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It is an area that I highly recommend a good ride serene monuments, fine delicacies and the best scenery. It is this region which is the most impressive bridge Portugal: Tower Bridge and Gothic Ucanha. There will.
Fiquemo us for now with the text of José Saramago on the river valley Varosa.
"The site is a most gentle beauty, follow up the curtains of trees everywhere sneak narrow roads, it is as if the landscape was made ​​up of successive transparencies in all this foot-path that will lead to Leg Ucanha the Salzedas the Tarouca Tarouca and St. John, undoubtedly one of the most beautiful regions that the traveler has found, across a rare balance of space and culture, housing and address natural men. "
The writer was well known according to the order indicated in the preceding text the following notable sights: Ferreirim parish church (old church of the monastery) (**), the Bridge Ucanha (***), the convent of Salzedas (* ), the mother church of Tarouca (*) and the monastery of St. John Tarouca (**). With the exception of the church Ferreirim which lies in the municipality of Lamego, the other notable sites based in the municipality of Tarouca.
The most beautiful medieval bridge in Portugal
If the average age of bridges with many fortified towers were built, almost all disappeared, however still exists in Portugal Bridge Ucanha that is in excellent state of preservation and bridge Sequeiros (*), as described herein , located in the municipality of Sabugal whose tower is just over the settlement. The Tower Bridge and Ucanha is a unique jewel of the national heritage and is the most beautiful medieval bridge in Portugal.
A little history of the Bridge Ucanha
D. The Cleric Fernando, 12th abbot of the monastery of Salzedas, bastard son of a brother of King Nuno Alvares Pereira, had built in 1465, the bridge over the river and the tower Varosa. But probably the abbot just rebuilt an earlier building. To his delight and everlasting glory, that vanity compels him to do so to a card with a gothic inscription that is still there: "This work had to make Fedo abble Salzedas and MD of M / III. No. LXV 'was domini."
The bridge is located in the entrance of the old Salzedas Couto, who has a very famous and dilapidated monastery. In almost all the texts that we read about the bridge appears to us always said the most illustrious son of Ucanha-José Leite de Vasconcelos, who states that the building of this bridge is linked to three reasons: defensive, since it protected the entrance to the Couto monasticism; symbolic, since it was a clear demonstration of the power of the abbots of Salzedas master, and economic as possible to ensure an effective collection of toll rights. At the dawn of the sixteenth century, have been extinct for overall determination of D. Manuel, the toll rights.

Ponte da Ucanha 300x225 Torre e ponte gótica de Ucanha (Tarouca) (***) A mais bela ponte de Portugal The Tower of Ucanha
The tower is a parallelepiped with 20 m high and 10 meters on each side of the base is divided into three levels. The first with cracks, in the second two-sided open up two double windows in graceful pointed arch, the third one would lookout (Watchman) has 4 matacães, supported by three cantilevers.
Beneath the tower is cut an arc forming a vaulted tunnel where people and circulating their goods.
Side of the village, the arc has topped a niche with the image of Our Lady
Over the years the tower must have had several functions: collection of tolls, served as a defense, as evidenced by the characteristics of the third floor, was perhaps manor, castle and sunny may have been used as a convent barn. Today is transformed into a museum center location.
The Bridge Ucanha
The bridge has a board on the easel, shielded by a high parapet formed by well-equipped ashlars. Based on five pointed arches, strengthened by the amount hoist seas. The central arch, much broader than the other will have a large.

Ponte de ucanha 1 300x225 Torre e ponte gótica de Ucanha (Tarouca) (***) A mais bela ponte de Portugal The stones of this monument are so beautiful almost all sigladas, which gives it authenticity and makes us to absorb the imagination in relation to traits of the medieval stonemasons.
Other aspects of anything despicientes Ucanha
Ucanha also worth your visit, not just the bridge itself, is the biggest reason, but also for other reasons: the town with character that is organized linearly along the way that part of the bridge, an urban structure that denounces its origin; Varosa the river still flowing in this sector allows the existence of water mills, two of them near the bridge, the beautiful river beach and the beautiful scenery of unique beauty, in a background of fresh, colorful and lush; for its parish church, which built the first half of the seventeenth century and has little to see outside, the interior is very beautiful with its coffered nave covered by painted with biblical scenes and its main altarpiece in gilded artistic worked, now Baroque parish church it should be classified, and Ucanha be the location where he was born José Vasconcelos-bed, one of the greatest cultural figures of all time in Portugal, and that the accuracy norteava, quiet grandeur and righteousness.

"Graduated in medicine, he devoted himself entirely to the social sciences, with a thesis defended at the University of Paris, France. Bibliography huge (over 1,200 titles), his studies, covering the history and archeology, epigraphy and numismatics, ethnography or in philosophy indicate directions, constitute the cornerstone and are the foundation of modern science in Portugal. Founder of the Journal of the Ethnological Museum and Lusitanian Portuguese (I say, now the National Archaeological Museum (****) in Lisbon), lecturer, researcher, for research or theoretical work in the field its huge capacity and moral authority lit, so undying, the light of the contemporary in his homeland "2.
His immortal work, in addition to the museum, perhaps Religions of Lusitania, which present a great surprise by the ability of its author.
Good cultural tourism, dear reader!
Sources:
1 - Travel to Portugal, Jose Saramago
2-http :/ / www.thesaurus.com.br/livro-na-rua/acervo/jose-leite-de-vasconcelos/

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