Day 3 Vila Chã. - Vila do Conde Saturday 28/July/2018
Day 3 Vila Chã - Vila do
Conde Saturday 28/July/2018
7 km 2 hrs of which 1 pause of 10 min to telephone
This is becoming more and more leisurely! Beautiful sunshine, quite hot as we are walking out of this village. But nicely relieved with a gentle breeze as we reach the beach promenade. Arrived at our destination at 11:30 am, shared a sandwich which had survived in my pack and had a lie-down after the tremendous exertions of the morning.
Left to find the tourist office for more detailed information than what was to be had from our two guidebooks - tourist office closed all weekend. Of course! What kind of tourist would come for the weekend requiring information!
So we went on a walkabout on our own, found the very impressive Matriz Church - managed to go round just before a wedding while first the organ, then a small orchestra, were practicing. Walking outside the church we could see the Roman aquaeduct mentioned in our guidebooks - 7 km long with 999 arches it zigzags! I had never come across one which is not straight! And it finishes at the church of what used to be the convent of Santa Clara. We tried to think or make out which end of the aquaeduct this was - at the beginning must be some source of water and at the end the water going along must feed into something. We never found out. Took photographs of it from all sorts of angles, even from a cemetery next to it.
Bought some chocolate for Nicola, fruit for both of us, and now we will go out to have a proper meal.
7 km 2 hrs of which 1 pause of 10 min to telephone
This is becoming more and more leisurely! Beautiful sunshine, quite hot as we are walking out of this village. But nicely relieved with a gentle breeze as we reach the beach promenade. Arrived at our destination at 11:30 am, shared a sandwich which had survived in my pack and had a lie-down after the tremendous exertions of the morning.
Left to find the tourist office for more detailed information than what was to be had from our two guidebooks - tourist office closed all weekend. Of course! What kind of tourist would come for the weekend requiring information!
So we went on a walkabout on our own, found the very impressive Matriz Church - managed to go round just before a wedding while first the organ, then a small orchestra, were practicing. Walking outside the church we could see the Roman aquaeduct mentioned in our guidebooks - 7 km long with 999 arches it zigzags! I had never come across one which is not straight! And it finishes at the church of what used to be the convent of Santa Clara. We tried to think or make out which end of the aquaeduct this was - at the beginning must be some source of water and at the end the water going along must feed into something. We never found out. Took photographs of it from all sorts of angles, even from a cemetery next to it.
Bought some chocolate for Nicola, fruit for both of us, and now we will go out to have a proper meal.
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| MATRIZ CHURCH |
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| VIEW OVER THE RIVER AVE FROM THE CONVENT SANTA CLARA VUE SUR LA RIVI7RE AVE DEPUIS LE COUVENT SANTA CLARA |
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| AQUEDUC FEEDING INTO THE CHUCH WALL L'ACQUEDUC |
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| ACQUEDUC ZIGZAGGING |
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| CEMETERY |
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| CEMETERY |
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| AQUEDUC AND SANTA CLARA CONVENT AS SEEN FROM MARTIZ CHURCH VUE DE L AQUEDUC ET DU COUVENT DEPUIS L EGLISE |
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| MATRIZ CHURCH EGLISE DE MATRIZ |
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| MATRIZ CHURCH |
Cela devient de plus en plus facile.
Beau soleil, température assez chaude pendant le marche en sortant
du village. Le tout agrémenté d'une petite brise le long du sentier
côtier. On est arrivées à notre destination à 11 heures et avons
partagé un sandwich sauvé du fond de mon sac. Petit repos allongé
ensuite pour récupérer de cet important effort physique !!!
On a été ensuite rechercher l'office
de tourisme pour avoir plus d'informations que sur nos guides afin de
connaître ce qu'il fallait voir dans la ville. Mais le bureau était
fermé tout le week-end ! Bien sur ! Qui peuvent bien être
les touristes qui veulent des informations un week-end ?!
On a été marcher et découvrir par
nous mêmes. On a été impressionnées par la massive église de Matriz
et on est arrivées juste avant une cérémonie de mariage avec
d’abord une musique d'orgue pour une petit orchestre.
En devers de l'église on a vu
l’aqueduc romain mentionné dans nos guides. Il fait 7 km de long
et a 999 arches en zigzag. Je n'avais jamais vu un aqueduc qui n'est
pas rectiligne...Il se termine près de l'église qui avait été le
couvent de Ste Clara. On a essayé de comprendre si s'était le
début ou la fin de l 'aqueduc -au début il devrait y avoir une
arrivée d'eau et à la fin un lieu pour la recueillir. On n'a pas eu
la réponse ! On a pris des clichés sous différents angles et
même depuis le cimetière qui est contigu.
Achat de chocolat pour Nicola, de
fruits pour nous deux et maintenant on va chercher à prendre un vrai
repas.
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