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  Portal de Vila do Conde - Monumentos
A sua envolvente está pouco cuidada, existindo construções adossadas a alguns tramos, nomeadamente próximo do Mosteiro de Santa Clara e Igreja de São Francisco.
Do conjunto resta ainda uma grande parte da estrutura inicial, embora já muito fraccionada, sendo o troço da Igreja de Santa Clara e até ao limite do Concelho de Vila do Conde o que melhor conservação apresenta, numa extensão de 500m, num total de cerca de quatro quilómetros.
Por exemplo, na freguesia de Argivai, restam apenas as aduelas dos antigos arcos dentro de uma propriedade; na freguesia de Beiriz já cairam oito arcos e outros, devido à sua inclinação e desgaste, ameaçam ruir.
www.viladoconde.org /viladoconde/monumentos/aqueduto.htm   (367 words)

  
 Inn-Portugal - Vila do Conde - Estalagem do Brazao
Vila do Conde - Porto and Douro Valley - Portugal
Estalagem do Brazao is in the historic centre of Vila do Conde, a peaceful place noted for its lace and the local cakes called pasteis de Santa Clara.
Estalagem do Brazao is in the historic centre of the town and has a total of 30 bedrooms all of which are air conditioned.
inn-portugal.com /accommodation/estalagens/porto-douro/estalagem-do-brazao.html   (257 words)

  
 CDP - Companhia Docas do Pará
O canal de navegação vai da Vila do Conde até a foz do rio Pará com 500 metros de largura e 170 Km de comprimento.
O acesso rodoviário ligando Belém à Vila do Conde, pode ser feito pela BR-316 até a PA-140, na cidade de Santa Isabel do Pará, seguindo após pela PA-252 até a cidade de Moju, em rodovia não pavimentada.
As instalações de acostagem do Porto de Vila do Conde, estão construídas obedecendo ao formato de um "T" maiúsculo, em que, no travessão, estão localizados os Berços de atracação alinhados com a direção da correnteza do Rio Pará, dispensando a utilização de rebocadores nas manobras de atracação ou desatracação dos navios que utilizam o Porto.
www.cdp.com.br /porto_vila_conde.aspx   (778 words)

  
 Salesianos | Vila do Conde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ao ser entregue à direcção dos Salesianos em 1944, o antigo reformatório de Vila do Conde, sediado num antigo convento de Clarissas, tomou o nome de Escola Profissional de Santa Clara.
Do grandioso projecto de construção para o novo mosteiro, apenas foi concluída a fachada sul, e que por força da sua monumentalidade é hoje um Ex-Libris de Vila do Conde.
Acolhe jovens dos 10 aos 18 anos, em regime de internato, todos eles provenientes do Instituto de Reinserção Social.
www.salesianos.pt /casas_viladoconde.aspx   (283 words)

  
 Vila do Conde - Wikipédia
Vila do Conde é uma cidade portuguesa no Distrito do Porto, Região Norte e subregião do Grande Porto, com 25 731 habitantes em 2003.
A povoação de Vila do Conde é muito antiga, anterior à fundação de Portugal, e o seu topónimo não sofreu alterações, era já Vila do Conde.
XIV e que até hoje domina a paisagem da cidade, a quinhentista Matriz de Vila do Conde, o setecentista aqueduto de Santa Clara, o Forte São João Baptista (Castelo de Vila do Conde), a Capela do Socorro que data do princípio do séc.
pt.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vila_do_Conde   (527 words)

  
 PSD - Vila do Conde
A partir de agora, o PSD de Vila do Conde passa a dispor de um local onde pode apresentar as suas ideias, projectos e acções de forma livre e aberta.
A comunidade piscatória de Vila do Conde é conhecida em todo o país pela bravura das suas gentes, que enfrenta o mar e os perigos da faina marítima.
Ora, a Coligação «Sentir Vila do Conde» está farta de palavras e exige que se passem aos actos.
www.psdviladoconde.net   (466 words)

  
 Vila do Conde Quasi Diário (6º acto)
Conhecendo a posição do six e sendo a mesma que a minha, peço-lhe que não tenha inversamente no QD, (já que é o Administrador), o mau gosto deste blog, que até é um dos melhores blogues nacionais, com toda a parafernália de publicidade, “crachás”, bandeirinhas, eu sei lá, pelo SIM.
Com o avanço do projecto Nassica, as lojas entrarão numa fase de subsistência em que muito poucas sobrevirão, contribuindo ainda mais para uma Vila do Conde cinzenta e desolada.
Talvez, mas a questão dos diários é-me simpática pelo que a sua continuidade vai continuar a ser uma realidade…
viladoconde4.blogs.sapo.pt   (1478 words)

  
 Web Socrates-Comenius
ILA DO Vila do Conde is in the North of Portugal, near Porto City.
Vila do Conde is a great place to rest.
Vila do Conde is very animated on cultural level during June, July and August.
members.tripod.com /~caos_vision/fotos/enph2.htm   (148 words)

  
 Portugal Travel Guide
27 km north of Oporto lies Vila do Conde, a delightful seaside town dominated by the enormous Convent of Santa Clara, built on a hill above the River Ave.
Vila do Conde is also a centre for lace-making, an art-form kept alive at the Escola de Rendas (Lace-making School) installed on the premises of the town’s Lace Museum on Rua de São Bento.
10 km northeast of Vila do Conde, the 13th century church of São Pedro de Rates boasts a magnificent rose window and some gracefully sculpted statues of saints.
www.portugaltravelguide.com /en/vila_do_conde.htm   (278 words)

  
 Museum of Vila do conde 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Installed in 1991 in a typical urban manor of the XVII century, the museum of lace to the spindles of Vila do Conde sticks, for a certain time, being studied of the history of this secular art and develops simultaneously projects aiming its revival to the 21st century.
It is surely since XVI century that ua Portugal, country of sailors, fishermen and manufacturers the bâteaux one, that was strongly established the manufacture of laces with the spindles with Vila do Conde.
The origin could not be established, but it is known that in XVI century Vila do Conde was one of most important Portuguese ports the.
www.dentellieres.com /Musee/Vila/Lace-index.htm   (309 words)

  
 [v*c] Portugal > Green Coast > Oporto > Vila do Conde
A charming small town set between woods of pines, the River Ave and the sea, Vila do Conde enjoyed a great expansion as a ship-building centre during the Age of Discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Another main attraction of Vila do Conde is the historic centre, displaying narrow stone-paved streets, low houses from the 17th to 19th centuries and monuments such as the 16th-century Mother Church, with a remarkable Manueline portal and now lodging a Religious Art Museum.
Vila do Conde is famed for its rendas de bilros (bone lace), a tradition dating from 16th century and kept alive at the Lace-making School lodged in a building which also houses the Lace Museum.
viajar.clix.pt /pt/dst3068.php?lg=en   (557 words)

  
 Vila Do Conde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
VILA do CONDE, Portuguese capital of Lace, became during two weeks, world capital of Lace at the time of " 25th Feira Nacional de Artesanato de Vila Do Conde ".
In the midst of Costa Verde (Green Coast), Vila do Conde is an old town full of traditions ans charm, rich of natural beauties, a remarkable series of monuments representing variuos periods, th most important nucleus dating fron 16th century, which have made Vila do Conde a true relic of Portugal's architectural patrimony.
The handicraft, with its famous and delicate 'Rendas de Bilros' (bobbin lace)...This is Vila do Conde!
www.dentellieres.com /Reportage/R2002/Vila/Lace-index.htm   (119 words)

  
 Vila do Conde - Página Inicial
O Centro Ciência Viva de Vila do Conde é um espaço plurifuncional de ciência e tecnologia, vocacionado para a difusão da cultura científica e tecnológica através da observação e experimentação.
Em 28 de Setembro de 2001 foi constituída a Associação Centro Ciência Viva de Vila do Conde cujos membros associados são o Ciência Viva — Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica, o Município de Vila do Conde e a Universidade do Porto.
O Centro Ciência Viva de Vila do Conde, inaugurado a 2 de Março de 2002, integra a Rede de Centros Ciência Viva do Ministério da Ciência e do Ensino Superior.
viladoconde.cienciaviva.pt   (635 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In Vila do Conde the Bobbin Lace Museum, is at the city Historical Centre heart, and it is just one of the complexe of museums which compose the Municipality Museum, each one with a single particularity of the local culture.
At the museum building is also functioning the Vila do Conde Bobbin Lace School which is the guarantee of the future of this tradition.
At the museum we do all kind of lace with lace mak ers which are everyday at the museum demonstrating how the bobbin lace is done.
www.blen.net /blen_08/0803.htm   (404 words)

  
 Vila do Conde, Portugal Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions
Vila do Conde, Portugal Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions
Vila do Conde in North Portugal is an exposed beach break that has pretty consitent surf and can work at any time of the year.
At the moment, we display the current current weather observations / forecast for Vila do Conde, tide data, sea temperature and a growing list of Surfcams.
www.surf-forecast.com /breaks/ViladoConde.shtml   (215 words)

  
 Câmara Municipal de Vila do Conde
Com o objectivo de contribuir para a melhoria da qualidade de vida nas cidades, através de intervenções nas vertentes urbanística e ambiental, e visando aumentar a atractividade e competitividade dos pólos urbanos, foi concebido o Programa Polis.
A qualidade dos serviços prestados pela Câmara Municipal de Vila do Conde vêm,...
O Prémio “Cidades Limpas — 2003/2004”, criado pelo Ministério do Ambiente, Instituto Nacional dos...
cmviladoconde.wiremaze.com /pagegen.asp?SYS_PAGE_ID=849850   (135 words)

  
 Vila Do Conde - Offshore Investments, Offshore Banking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Vila do Conde in North Portugal is an exposed beach break Offshore winds blow Display specific location.
Do vila nova de gaia offshore banking grand Banco Espirito Santo Cayman Islands.
VILA DO CONDE & AZURARA Azurara lies just south of Vila do Conde and produces some nice right handers Offshore in easterly winds.
www.offshore-resources.net /viladoconde.htm   (277 words)

  
 Hotels in Vila do Conde, Portugal
Hotel Santana has a magnificant location on a hillside, next to the river Ave in the city of Vila do Conde.
Built at the begginning of the XIX century, located in a typical countryside area, the house of Quinta das Alfaias, is sourrounded by 10000 m2 of gardens and orchards, envolved in a neighbourhood of...
Distancing only a few kilometers from important centers like Vila do Conde and povoa de Varzim, the Quinta São Miguel de Arcos, harmoniously integraded in a beutifull natural landscape, invites all...
bookings.net /place/pt-2179489.en.html   (339 words)

  
 Porto Metro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a light-rail network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs.
The line was extended in 2004 to Estádio do Dragão, in time for the Euro 2004 Football championship.
The Metro do Porto company also operates the Funicular of Guindais, a cable-car system that was originally built in 1891 and recently remodelled.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porto_Metro   (1139 words)

  
 Portugal - Minho - Vila do Conde - Fort Sao Joao Batista
Located in Vila do Conde, approximately 30 kms from Oporto, the ‘Forte’ is situated between the River and the Atlantic Ocean.
The old part of Vila do Conde remains an active fishing port with a bustling Friday market and an interesting medieval quarter.
The old sailing city of Viana do Castelo is approximately 35 kms away and is well worth a visit.
manorhouses.com /hotels/fortesjoao.html   (412 words)

  
 TheTravelzine.com Portugal Fall 2004
Paula moved to Porto a while ago and together with her sister Maria met us at the airport in Porto to drive us to Vila do Conde, a spectacular beach town just north of Porto.
Paula and Maria had arranged for their lovely daughters Joanna and Marta and a friend to join us for lunch in Vila do Conde.
The attraction of the ocean and sandy beaches is reason enough to come to Vila do Conde.
www.thetravelzine.com /port_fall2004_1VilaDoConde.htm   (1701 words)

  
 Villa Mindelo, Vila do Conde 5BR vacation rental
Large 5 bedrooms villa set in quite urbanisation with it´s own pool.It is fully equipped and is situated in the lovely area between Porto and Vila do Conde and is only a short distance,walking from the beautiful beaches.
Later, the techniques and knowledge of this remarkable art spread all along the rest of the northern coast of Portugal as far as Galicia itself, and some of its beautiful products can be appreciated at the local Lace Museum.
The important role played by handicraft in the life of this city is not limited to its lace-work, however, for each year in July/August, Vila do Conde plays host to the National Handicraft Fair, one of the most important events of this kind in Portugal.
www.ovrentals.com /dpa1992.jsp   (249 words)

  
 Vila do Conde - a guide to the town and port
Vila do Conde - a guide to the town and port
A guide to the port and other information of assistance for the cruising sailor
Press the appropriate button to cruise along the Coast
manorhouses.com /ports/vdconde.htm   (243 words)

  
 Vila do Conde, Portugal6 Day Surf Forecast, Tide Tables and Sea Temperature
Vila do Conde, Portugal6 Day Surf Forecast, Tide Tables and Sea Temperature
Summary: for Vila do Conde (Portugal): Some drizzle, heaviest during Tue night Cool air temperatures (max 14°C on Sun afternoon, min 8°C on Sun morning) Wind will be generally light
summary for Vila do Conde (Portugal): Moderate rain (total 11mm), heaviest on Wed morning Cool air temperatures (max 16°C on Wed afternoon, min 13°C on Fri night) Wind will be generally light
www.surf-forecast.com /breaks/ViladoConde.1to3.shtml   (98 words)

  
 Vila do Conde Accommodations - Houses, Villas and Apartment Vacation Rentals in Portugal
Vila do Conde Accommodations - Houses, Villas and Apartment Vacation Rentals in Portugal
Visit the convent of Santa Clara, and the church of Sao Cristovao is nearby Rio Mau.
Rent holiday lodgings directly from owners of villa, bed and breakfast, home and condo accommodations at accommodations at Vila do Conde, PT.
www.ownerdirect.com /accommodations/viladoconde.htm   (235 words)

  
 Hotel Santana Vila do Conde DouroBasin Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Quietly situated on a hilltop overlooking the River Ave and the pretty fishing harbour and town of Vila do Conde less than twenty four kilometres from Oporto city and only 17 kilometres from the airport, stands these popular one and two bedroom apartments and rooms.
Vila do Conde, where the aparthotel is located, is an old fishing town with superb sandy beaches, rocky reefs and parks - while it also boasts many shops and restaurants.
The Santa`Ana has a superb restaurant itself though with panoramic views of the river and surrounding countryside, not to mention lounges, bar, sauna, TV room and an indoor heated pool.
www.direct-hotels-online.com /Portugal/DouroBasin/Vila_do_Conde/Hotel_Santana.html   (289 words)

  
 Vila do Conde : Introduction | Frommers.com
27km (17 miles) N of Porto, 341km (211 miles) N of Lisbon, 42km (26 miles) S of Viana do Castelo, 3km (2 miles) S of Póvoa do Varzim
At the mouth of the river Ave, the charming little town of Vila do Conde has been discovered by summer vacationers who seek out its fortress-guarded sandy beaches and rocky reefs.
Along the wharves, you might still see piles of rough hand-hewn timbers used in the building of the sardine fleet.
www.frommers.com /destinations/viladoconde/2667010001.html   (280 words)

  
 Vila do conde travel guide
Vila do conde travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
Vila do Conde (74 057 inhabitants) has an area of 149,1 km2 and is one of the 18 municipalities in the Porto district.
It attracts a number of visitors but doesn't seem in the least like a resort, out of season at least.
www.world66.com /europe/portugal/viladoconde   (207 words)

  
 Estalagem do Brasao Hotel - Vila do Conde - Estalagem do Brasao Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
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We could not get accomodation in Porto and were concerned at being 20 miles away.
Explore our site to find travel information and unbiased reviews on Vila do Conde tourism, maps and much more.
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