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Museums
> Via A32
FERREIRA DE CASTRO
HOUSE-MUSEUM
From the A32 motorway to Oliveira de Azeméis you can visit the Ferreira de Castro House-Museum. Dating from the middle of the 19th century, this is the former home of the writer José Maria Ferreira de Castro, author of books such as"A Selva" and "Volta ao Mundo".
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The museum boasts books, manuscripts, and some personal effects of the writer, including the shoes and suitcase that accompanied him on the round-the-world trip in 1939 that inspired one of his books.
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The House-Museum has two floors. On the first floor there is the wine cellar where some of the agricultural tools of the time are displayed, such as the lagar, the press, a salting machine, and six barrels. The second floor consists of four rooms: the kitchen, the living room, the Castro's mother's bedroom, and his writer's childhood bedroom. Outside the house, by Castro's express will, the yard and existing pine forest have been preserved, and where necessary dead trees have been replaced by new pine trees.
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Further information here.
TOMÁS DA COSTA GALLERY
The A32 takes you to Oliveira de Azeméis, where art lovers are welcome to visit several exhibitions at Galeria Tomás da Costa. The cultural space is located in the centre of the City Square and displays collections of artworks by both national and local artists.
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It is open Monday to Sunday from April 1st to October 31st, and Tuesday to Thursday from November 1st to March 31st.
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Tomás da Costa, born in 1860 in Oliveira de Azeméis, was a renowned sculptor whose reputation reached its peak when he created a statue in honor of the 4th Centennial of Prince Henry the Navigator. Later, he designed a statue of Marshal Saldanha and his suceess led Queen D. Amélia to choose him to sculpt her bust.
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Further information here.
> Via A41
AMADEU DE
SOUZA-CARDOZO
MUNICIPAL MUSEUM
Take the A41 and have a stopover in Amarante to visit the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Municipal Museum. The Museum, housed inside the Dominican Convent of São Gonçalo, was founded by Albano Sardoeira in 1947 in order to gather materials concerning local history and to celebrate the artists and writers who were born in Amarante such as Ilídio Sardoeira, António Carneiro, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and Agustina Bessa Luís.
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Here you can find a display of modern and contemporary Portuguese artworks - paintings and sculptures.
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Further information here.
MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ESPINHO
When traveling along the A41 and passing through Espinho you can exit and visit the Municipal Museum. The Museum opened in June 2009, and is located in the Fórum de Arte e Cultura de Espinho (FACE), formerly a renowned food canning factory (Brandão, Gomes & Co) founded in the late 19th Century.
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It integrates three permanent exhibitions: the canning, factory, artesanal fishing art and the fishing/working neighbourhood. It also has a gallery for temporary exhibitions, a centre for research into local documentation and history and an educational service.
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Further information here.
> Via A43
MUNICIPAL MUSEUM
OF VALONGO
You could make a stopover in Valongo on your journey along the A43, and take the opportunity to visit the Municipal Museum. This museum is housed in an early 19th century building, constructed by Bernardo Martins da Nova, to which the chapel of S. Bruno was added in 1825. It became the seat of the City Council, although, due to its historical and architectural value, the building was subsequently renovated and has been the Municipal Museum since 2001.
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Here you will find a varied collection of artifacts including utensils for baking, slate mining, sheet-metal working and linen processing, sacred art, paintings, wooden toys, costumes of Bugios e Mourisqueiros, a very old tradition, depicting the battles between Christians and the Moors and the Session Room of the old Municipal House.
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Further information here.
