What to see
12 tesouros emblemáticos repletos de história e património; paisagens surpreendentes, que despertam os sentidos e conquistam os visitantes.
Station of the Cross
Sortelha
In 1742, Stations of the Cross were built with motifs of baroque influence: a straight lintel niche, crown blocks with volutes, rosettes, triangles and a protruding lintel very similar to a cornice. The set consists of five very similar stations located around the village, always against a wall: São Sebastião Chapel, the Town Gate wall, the castle entrance in Largo do Pelourinho, the top end of the Parish Church and near Falsa Gate in Rua Dá Mesquita.
Statue of Bandarra
Trancoso
There is a statue in Largo do Município in memory of Gonçalo Anes Bandarra, a famous poet, prophet and cobbler, who was born and lived in Trancoso in the 16th century. A well-known figure in Trancoso’s history, he composed songs of divine and prophetic inspiration based on the Old Testament, which resulted in the Lisbon Inquisition bringing a case against him in 1541. The songs could be interpreted both in a Christian apocalyptic sense or in a Jewish Messianic sense and so were used for two purposes of the same time.
Statue of Pedro Álvares Cabral
Belmonte
This sculpture was carried out in by Álvaro de Brée in 1961. It was unveiled in 1963 by Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (President of Brazil, 1956-1961). The discoverer is in a relaxed pose holding an astrolabe, a sword and a cross. The only statues of Cabral are in Belmonte, Lisbon and Santarém. There is also a medallion in the cloister of Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon which is thought to be one of the three wise men from the painting the Adoration of the Magi. It came from the old altarpiece at Viseu Cathedral, from the studio of Grão Vasco and is now in the Grão Vasco Museum (Viseu).
S. Tomé rock tombs
Trancoso
They are situated on the north-east side of the castle mound near the medieval road from Carvalho Gate to Pinhel. It consists of two medieval tombs cut into the rock, one of which is incomplete. The other is trapezoidal in shape with a full arch at the head, shoring almost perfect symmetry.