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| | Aveiro, Central Portugal - Tourism Information and guide |
 | | The city of Aveiro is crossed by canals, which give it quite an individual character, and in the old quarter tourists can see the quaint whitewashed houses of the fishermen and visit, early in the morning, the Mercado do Peixe, an auction of the fish caught during the night. |
 | | Established in 1911, the Museum of Aveiro occupies the building of the old Convent of Jesus, conserving unbroken some spaces of the previous conventual experience that integrate the circuit of visit of the museum. |
 | | The quantity of the museum, with origin in the estates of the Convent of Jesus and other religious houses of the extinct city and the country with the liberal legislation, encloses colecções of painting, sculpture, would paramentaria, tile, goldsmithery, furniture, ceramics with particular incidence in the baroque period. |
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