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| State | Portugal | |
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| Region | Minho | |
| Inhabitants | 19 957 (2001) | |
| Name inhabitants | Monçanense | |
| POSTAL CODE | 4950 | |
| Patron | Santa Maria dos Anjos (Santa Maria degli Angeli) | |
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Monção it is a center in the region Minho in Northern Portugal.
To know
Monção is a center on the Minho River which marks the border line with the Galicia. On the opposite bank is the Galician center of Salvatierra de Miño.
The town appears mentioned in a document dated 1261 in which King Alfonso III of Portugal granted it some privileges.
Monçao is also a spa.
How to orient yourself
Monção: full screen map.How to get
How to get around
What see
Monçao - Mother Church
- mother church (Igreja Matriz de Monção). In Romanesque style, the church was built in the 12th century and restored in the 16th and 17th centuries. The entrance portal is decorated with geometric and floral motifs. The interior has a single nave with some Manueline-style chapels. The choir is decorated with azulejos and talha dourada (carved wood covered with gold leaf).
Monção - Brejoeira Palace
- Palácio da Brejoeira (6km south of the city center, on state highway 101 to Arcos de Valdevez).
Closed to the public. Built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Brejoeira Palace is a private property in the center of an estate where grapes are produced from which the Alvarinho vinho is obtained. In neoclassical style it is a work attributed to the architect Carlos Amarante.
Closed to the public. Built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Brejoeira Palace is a private property in the center of an estate where grapes are produced from which the Alvarinho vinho is obtained. In neoclassical style it is a work attributed to the architect Carlos Amarante.
