Igreja de S. Gonçalos
Hexagonal chapel, constructed during the first quarter of century XVIII.
The cult of S. Gonçalo represents for the Aveirenses a very peculiar
devotion. It is traditional to throw dry cakes for the multitude, as
fulfilment of promises.
Museum
of Aveira
Established in 1911, the Museum of Aveiro occupies the building of the
old Convent of Jesus, conserving unbroken some spaces of the previous
conventual experience that integrate the circuit of visit of the museum.
The quantity of the museum, with origin in the estates of the Convent
of Jesus and other religious houses of the extinct city and the country
with the liberal legislation, encloses colecções of painting,
sculpture, would paramentaria, tile, goldsmithery, furniture, ceramics
with particular incidence in the baroque period. It still possesss deep
a documentary one of centuries XV to the XIX.
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