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The seat of the county, PontedeLima (25 km, 15 miles east of Viana do Castelo) is truly representative of the Minho region with its fine monuments, picturesque market and magnificent palaces and manor houses in the town and surrounding area.
PontedeLima takes its name from the ancient bridge over the river Lima leading to the town and exhibiting 15 great stNearby, the 15th-century church of St. Anthony now lodges the Museu dos Terceiros, a museum of sacred art.
PontedeLima also boasts of a beautiful 17th-century fountain with the town's coat of arms, of the 15th-century fortress-palace of the Marqueses dePontedeLima, the Mother Church (1359-1567) with its rich interior decoration and many other monuments and splendid buildingsone arches of which four are from the original Roman construction.
The present borough of PontedeLima lies between the banks of rivers Neiva and Lima and comprises 51 parishes.
Further downstream is the modern Pontede Nossa Senhora da Guia, carrying the Braga to Valença N201 highway.
PontedeLima's Turismo has produced Trilhos, a folio of half a dozen easy, illustrated walks ranging from seven to 14 km (though the maps and details are not totally reliable).
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