Ponte de Lima translates to bridge across the Lima river. This particular bridge was built by the Romans. Its a pretty impressive bridge, the river is not super deep but its is wide.
On the main town side of the river they had a nice park with some statues in honor of their culture. On the other side was this little church and then some other type of temple.
Next stop we went to which was actually on a different day but trying to group the Portugal pictures together. This next stop was up in the mountains along the Spanish Portuguese boarding. The road was a single lane road through town that were on the edge of a skinny valley. The side we were on was Portugal the other side of the mountain was Spain. Luckily it wasn't a busy road so we didn't run in to anyone until the road widened to a car and a half wide.
Will have to do some research on this style of sanctuary. Its the first of its style that I remember seeing but in my next post we see another similar. The church is at the top of the hill with fancy switch back stairs leading up to it. And then below the switch backs are more stairs with little temples that house the stations of the cross.
The stations of the cross were statues depicting the different stages.
As part of the stairs they have statues on each level.
Nice view from the top looking down the valley and initial stair case up to the sanctuary.
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