Culture & Heritage

A few centuries before Christ, people in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula developed life forms characterized, among other things, by a type of settlement: the "castros?.The "castros? were nothing more than fortified villages, located on prominent hills with broad visual domain. These defensive concerns were usually complemented by the construction of stone walls and/or deep moats to...

The Town Hall building project was prepared by the architect Alfredo Leal Duarte Machado, from Coimbra, and is dated June 1939. In October 1940, the Government granted the municipality an amount for its construction. In a council meeting on March 19, 1941, it was decided to grant the construction contract to António Oliveira Gomes, from Porto. The works began in April 1941. By order of the...

Xávega, the art of dragging is used on this beach.The net is formed by a finer mesh where fish is trapped. The boat go into the sea, leaving the end of a rope on land, and when it is 3 or 4 km from the coast, the net is thrown.After this operation, fishermen return to the coast, bringing the other end of the rope on the boat. They join the two rope ends and pull the boat with oxen or tractors,...

The collection museum has three permanent exhibitions: Factory Canning, Fishing and Xávega Art /Working Class Neighborhood.

Espinho Auditorium is open since 2006 and is assumed as a space for artistic creation and promotion towards music, theater, dance and contemporary circus. This infrastructure develops annually a diverse, regular and recognized artistic program, covering the different areas of creation, always looking for new traditions and cultural movements. Don?t miss the opportunity to watch a...

In honour of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda, the project is due to the architect Adães Bermudes, who designed it in the last years of the 20th century. It follows the neo-Romanesque type of the second half of the eight hundreds, which in Portugal widely extended. It is a large temple, with great unity of style.In the exterior, it stands out among the neo-Romanesque elements a large and decorative...

It is a well maintained place and there is a large religious worship dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Ajuda.

The Multimedia Centre is an infrastructure that includes a planetarium, an auditorium that also functions as a movie theatre, a gallery, an astronomical observatory, a cafeteria and several support rooms for the events that take place there.It offers an educational service responsible for stimulating a set of activities, both pedagogical and recreational, that are open to the public (of all...