Castle of Lamego and Cisterna
About the antiquity of the Castle of Lamego, almost all the authors consulted refer that the castle "is work of Moors" and before the foundation of the nationality. Of the primitive, only the keep (12th century) remains, part of the old wall and the cistern (13th century).
The watchtower, about twenty meters high, is of quadrangular plan and has on its faces gaps of illumination, some altered in century XVI to be transformed into windows, by order of the last count of Marialva, D. Francisco Coutinho, perhaps with the intention of giving the tower a housing function. It has a square of arms in the form of irregular hexagon, whose wall, with about ninety meters of perimeter, is endowed with adarve, accessible by the north side by a flight of stairs.
Between 1939 and 1940, when the centennial celebrations of the Foundation and Restoration of the nationality were celebrated, the castle was object of restorations, coming the bells and the bells that existed in the top of the tower to be withdrawn to add the battlements to him. Access to the old castle town is through two porticos open on the wall. Those who enter the north side pass through the arch called "Door of Figs or Fireworks," also called "Door of the Village or Aguião", while the door on the opposite side is called "Door of the Sun". Next to this last one we find an interesting emblazoned house that belonged to the Order of Cister and later became house of the wheel.

On the north side there is still the Tower House, which serves as the seat of the National Listening Corps. In this building worked the Town Hall until 1834, at which time it moved to the House of Relation (present Paço do Bispo).
In the middle of Rua do Castelo we can see the chapel of Senhora do Socorro, on the outer wall of which is an interesting panel of tiles with the inscription "N. S. of the Choir 1671 Iphone 4 Case ". Nearby there was another chapel invoking St. Savior, where it would have been the primitive Cathedral.

The Cistern of Lamego, located outside the square of arms, is of rectangular and vaulted silharia, with ribbed warp supported by wide straps supported on pillars. At about twenty meters long and ten wide, it is considered "one of the best examples of the cisterns of Portuguese castles" (Directorate General of National Monuments and Buildings, cit., Laranjo, 1994, p.52).
Already in November 2013, Cisterna de Lamego reopened and returned to know the light of day, after having undergone important works of requalification. Images, sounds, letters, experiences, traditions, became available to the public, in a space that now assumes itself as a Memory Center.
Upon entering the Cistern, the visitor plunges into the past, where multiple memories are projected uninterruptedly on the stones that were once only spectators. A sleepplasty is associated with space, recalling 800 years of everyday sounds: the bell, the rooster, the mason, the proclamation, the procession, the crying and the laughter.
The Castle of Lamego is classified like National Monument by the Decree of 16 of June of 1910. (Fonte: Municipio de Lamego)

Classification: MN - National Monument.
Location: erected in the highest part of the city, at 543 meters of altitude

 

CATHEDRAL
Tower
It is a Romanesque building, up to the height of the bells (XII-XIII century), with interesting cracks from the same period, with special emphasis on the remarkable opening of the rising side (see Artistic Treasures). The summit is already the work of the century. XVI,

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remedies
In the place where the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios was erected, there was a small hermitage, built by Bishop Durand in 1361, dedicated to Saint Stephen.
The Sanctuary building is a baroque building all worked in granite, dazzling by the elegance of the style, imposed by the creativity of the author of the project that is believed to have been Nicolau Nasoni.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest

Church of Santa Maria Almacave
Built next to an Arab necropolis (macab - deriving hence the name of Almacave), this religious temple is a Romanesque construction (13th century),
Classification: MN - National Monument
Location: it confronts the Rua de Almacave, Rua das Cortes, next to the Episcopal Palace

Chapel of S. Pedro de Balsemão
The chapel of S. Pedro de Balsemão is the oldest of all the monuments of Lamego and, according to some historians, the second of the Iberian Peninsula.
Classification: MN - National Monument.
Location: 3 km from Lamego, near the Rio Balsemão.

Church and Convent of Santa Cruz
The convent was founded by Lamecense, Doctor Lourenço Mourão Homem, and the first stone was laid in 1596.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest
Location: near the barracks and not far from the cemetery of Santa Cruz

Chagas Monastery Church
The Chagas Monastery, designed for the Poor Clares, was founded in 1588 by the Bishop of Lamego, D. António Teles de Menezes, whose tombstone can be seen in the main chapel.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest
Location: Near the Lyceum and the Garden of the Republic.

Church of the Convent of Santo António de Ferreirim
The Monastery of Santo António de Ferreirim was erected at the end of the Middle Ages by the initiative of the last counts of Marialva, whose tomb is inside the church.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest
Location: 8 kilometers from the city center of Lamego following E.N. 226 (at Km 144.8, towards Ferreirim)

Church of Grace
The present Church is what remains of the old convent of Gracianos, ordered to erect in 1647 by Francisco de Almeida Cabral, judge of the Palace.
Location: Marquês de Pombal Street (next to the Câmara Building)

Church of the Desterro
Founded in 1640 by the bailiff of Leça, D. Frei Luís Alvares de Távora, in the place where there was a hermitage and venerated Our Lady of Desterro.
Five Italian national screens that are currently in the museum belong to the Church.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest
Location: Rua Cardoso Avelino.

St. Francis Church
The existing church is what remains of the convent that was erected in 1599. It underwent alterations in the century. XVII and later a military hospital would occupy part of the temple.

Chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Meninos do Bairro da Ponte
The Chapel was built by the Bishop of Lamego D. Manuel de Noronha between 1551 and 1569.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest
Location: Bairro da Ponte, on the left bank of the Rio Balsemão

Chapel of Espírito Santo
It was rebuilt by Bishop Manuel de Noronha in the 16th century. XVI.
Location: In the downtown area, next to the fountain with the same name.

Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Esperança
Founded in 1586 by Father Francisco Gonçalves.
Classification: IIP - Property of Public Interest.
Location: at the north end of the city, (Rua do Cerdeiral).

STATUES AND BUSTS
-Bust of the Poet Fausto Guedes Teixeira
This bust, inaugurated in 1944, honors the Portuguese poet Fausto Guedes Teixeira. It is a work designed by Rui Couto and António Couto and sculpted by the artist Costa Mota Sobrinho.
Location: Jardim da República, next to the City Hall building.
-Statues "O Lamego"
One of the most famous statues in the city of Lamego.
Placed on top of the fountain of the same name, it represents a warrior in lofty posture
Location: next to the Garden of the Republic, to top the Fontanário do Lamego
-Statues of the Unknown Soldier
Erected in memory of the deaths of the Great War, it was inaugurated in 1932.
Location: in downtown, between Dr. Alfredo Sousa Avenue and Av. Visconde Guedes Teixeira.
-Statues of D. Miguel of Portugal (Bishop of Lamego)
In honor of the bishop ambassador, D. Miguel de Portugal, this monument was inaugurated in 1951.
The statue is a work of the Madeiran sculptor Francisco Franco.
Location: in front of the Museum building.
-Bust to the Volunteer Firefighter
Inaugurated on July 22, 2002, as can be read on the stone that was placed there, this statue is a tribute of the population of Lamego to the Humanitarian Association of the Volunteer Firemen of Lamego, by the height of 125 years of that Association.
-Statues "Rural Worker"
Sculpture by Henrique Moreira, in homage to the rural worker.
Location: Praceta Dr. Veiga de Macedo, at the bottom of Av. 5 de Outubro.
-Statues of “Cochicho”
Located in the living room of Lamego, in the central bed of the Garden Visconde Guedes Teixeira, the sculptures were offered to the city by one of its most illustrious children, Dr. João de Almeida, similar to those that are placed in the lakes of Dr. Alfredo Avenue de Sousa.
Location: Jardim Visconde Guedes Teixeira.
-Bust of the Commander Osório da Mota
In honor of his dedicated Provost, Comendador António Osório da Mota, the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Lamego ordered this bust to be erected in 1941.
Location: opposite the Hospital.
-Bust of Dr. João de Almeida
"This bust evocative of the memory of Dr. João D, Almeida - noted Surgeon, Founder and Master of Surgery Services of Hospital de Lamego, was inaugurated in the Jardim do Hospital on May 16, 1965, by the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Lamego .
Location: Largo Dr. João de Almeida (next to the Palaces of Serpas and Vilhenas)