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Inside is the tourist office.

The main attraction of the town.

Both towers are classified as buildings of "public interest," as is the wall connecting them, the Tower of Cadeia Velha and the Tower of S. Paulo (once also known as the Tower of S. Paulo). They are the most prominent witnesses to what remains of the old wall of Ponte de Lima, which, in addition to the walled structure, consisted of towers and doors, a group of buildings built during the reign of Pedro I in the 14th century.

Ponte de Lima - Portugal's oldest town 🏠

A city with many sights

The Tower of Cadeia Velha, converted into a prison in the 16th century (reign of Manuel I), now houses the Loja do Turismo (Tourism Shop) and many temporary art exhibitions.

The ex-libris of Ponte de Lima, which together with the river that bathes the town, gave the town its name, is its bridge. In reality, it is a group formed by two bridges: a larger medieval section, which begins on the left bank and extends to the Church of Santo António da Torre Velha and also passes through it in two arches. Then, the remaining section of the Roman bridge. There are only five arches from the large arch that is on a dry bed. If you go down you will also see the foundations of the Old Tower, perhaps the first of the medieval defensive system. The Roman bridge probably dates back to the 1st century, since it was at that time that the route of one of the military roads of the former "Conventus Bracaraugustanus", which connected Braga to Astorga, was opened, in this case Via XIX, ordered to be opened by the Emperor Augustus. As regards the medieval part, although we can go back in time, at least to the reigns of D. Pedro I and D. Fernando, due to a direct connection to the construction of the walls and towers that fortified the town, a work completed in 1370 , or even D. Dinis, taking into account documentation that mentions a bridge, which could also, at that time, be made of wood, we know of its existence during the reign of D. Manuel I, more precisely in 1504, because this monarch had new paving was ordered and merlons were installed to decorate the bridge, as they were no longer justified as a defensive and military option.

Nice city from 1140 with approximately 120,000 inhabitants. The symbol of the rooster from the legend of the man wrongly sentenced to the gallows is not only a symbol of the city but also a symbol of Portugal.