Description Carrazeda de Ansiães

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Carrazeda de Ansiães is a rural village, home to a county with 19 parishes and with an approximate area of 282.28km2. It belongs to the district of Bragança, being located to the southwest of this one, having the Tua river until the Foz to limit it to the west, and the river Douro to the South.

The village of Carrazeda de Ansiães has several points of interest, such as noble houses, windmill, the Pelourinho erected in the 18th century, the Fountain of the Mermaids and another Fountain with Tank in this same area full of rusticity, the old Town Hall and the today, the Mother Church of 1790 with left quadrangular side tower and 4 bells, all the old zone, the Garden or D. Lopo Vaz de Sampaio Square.

The history of the parish of Carrazeda de Ansiães is linked to the medieval municipality of Ansiães. Actually, when Ansiães was a prosperous, ancient, and important village, in the defense of the frontier line that the Douro constituted.