Tours through the city

Tour 1

bulletTourism – Esplanada Silva Guimarães with the Castelo (castle) Engenheiro Silva and Casa das Conchas (House of the Shells)
bulletClocktower in front of the esplanada; Picadeiro (Rua Cândido dos Reis): pedestrian precinct and main area of cafés and restaurants
bulletGrande Casino Peninsular (1884, recently remodeled)
bulletTennis Club, founded in 1917
bulletForte de Santa Catarina (fortress and lighthouse - end of 16th cent.)

Tour 2

bulletMercado (market) Engenheiro Silva (iron architecture, 1892)
bulletJardim Municipal (municipal garden in front of the market)
bulletCasa do Paço at the Largo do Paço (residence of the bishop, built at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th cent., holds an important collections of delft tiles of the 18th cent.)
bulletPraça Luiz de Camões, also called Praça Velha (old square), with a pillory of the 18th cent.
bulletPraça 8 de Maio, also called Praça Nova (new square), with a statue of Manuel Fernandes Tomaz
bulletRua dos Combatentes
bulletS. João do Vale
bulletChurch/Convent of Santo António – reconstruction of the 18th cent., rich in statues
bulletLargo da Misericórdia

Tour 3

bulletJardim Municipal (see Tour 2)
bulletAbadias (large park)
bulletMuseum Dr. Santos Rocha (Rua Calouste Gulbenkian); holds a rich and varied art collection
bulletCasa do Paço (see Tour 2)
bulletPraça Luiz de Camões (see Tour 2)
bulletChurch of S. Julião (18th cent., reconstruction of the 19th and 20th cent.)
bulletChurch/ Convent of Santo António (Largo da Misericórdia)

 Tour 4

bulletEsplanada Silva Guimarães, Castelo Engenheiro Silva and Casas das Conchas, clocktower
bulletPicadeiro (Rua Cândido dos Reis)
bulletGrande Casino Peninsular
bulletColiseu Figueirense (1895, bullfight arena)
bulletRua Joaquim Sotto Mayor with Quinta de Santa Catarina and Sotto Mayor Palace (1920), a building in french style of the 19th cent.

 Tour 5

bulletJardim Municipal
bulletRua 5 de Outubrowalk by th yacht-port
bulletPraça Luiz de Camões (Praça Velha)
bulletPraça 8 de Maio (Praça Nova)
bulletLargo da Fonte Luminosa (the fountain is illuminated at night)
bulletPraça da Europa
bulletAvenida Saraiva de Carvalho with the city hall (1898) and the Assembleia Figueirense-building, a club house of 1880
bulletComercial port of Figueira da Foz
bulletRua da República, the centre of shops with some buildings in the "Liberty Style" (Art Nouveau)

 Map of the city 

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Translation: Bianca Wöll