Dolmen Chapel of the Lord on the Mount (Penedono) (**)-Cults intertwine in Terras do Demo

When I came to the Dolmen Chapel of the Mount of the Lord the day was cold, gray and drizzling. The desconsolação dominated the wilderness. It was the second time in the necropolis of Nossa Senhora do Monte, inhospitable place, removed from the human chain, already belong to the Terras do Demo, and that is a unique space in Lusitania remarkable. The sepulcrário consists of six monuments of high scientific value, but what brings this reviewer is only symbolic and aesthetic value of the Dolmen (Read Full Article)

Menhir Maria Valley Parents and anthropomorphic Graves (Penedono) (*) - This is the most beautiful menhir north of the Tagus River

Apart from Anta-chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte (**), Penedono has another place of great attraction for its tourism - the menhir Mary Valley Country, surrounded by anthropomorphic graves and probable pious ablutions. The Megalith was identified in 1991 and was broken into two parts. It is a phallic monument, and affectionate with "fossetes" and decorated with a representation solar radiated. It has three feet tall. The arrangement of motifs is assumed (Read Full Article)

Castle Penedono (**)

Did you know ... Penedono Castle is a unique work of our military architecture and is related to the Lusíadas? Castle tower-house, encavalita in granite cliffs, is small but unusually tall, elegant and challenging. It is well achieved the release of the towers, is happy his game of shapes and volumes that give scale. The image we see is a palatial castle revamping sixteenth century, however no documentation of the castle from 960. (Read Full Article)