R. das Olarias 43, 6000-183 Castelo Branco
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Ancient synagogue of Castelo Branco
10 Rua da Misericordia, Castelo Branco
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Building of 10 rua D’Ega
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Sha’ar HaShamaim Synagogue
R. do Brum 16, 9500-085 Ponta Delgada Tel : +351 508 646 0650 https://www.azoreansynagogue.org
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Holocaust Museum of Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre 790, 4150-171 Porto Museu | Museu do Holocausto do Porto | Porto (mhporto.com)
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Jewish Museum of Porto
R. de Guerra Junqueiro 325, 4150-389 Porto Início | Museu Judaico do Porto (mjporto.com)
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Jewish cemetery of Faial
9900-163 Horta
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Jewish cemetery of Terceira
Caminho Novo 9700, Angra do Heroísmo
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Jewish cemetery of Ponta Delgada
R. Baden Powell, Ponta Delgada
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Marketplace of Castelo de Vide
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Rua dos Gatos
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Jewish cemetery of Lisbon
Rua Afonso III, 44 – Lisbon Tel : +351 21 814 85 61
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Ancient Jewish cemetery of Lisbon
R. de São Jorge 6, 1250-235 Lisbon Tel : +351 932 101 805
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Ohel Jacob synagogue
R. Filipe da Mata 103 2.º andar, 1600-070 Lisboa Inspiring Ohel Jacob Synagogue and Hehaver Community – 1934 (hehaver-oheljacob.org)
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Trancoso
The town of Trancoso is an ancient city at the crossroads of many wars, and as such was transformed into a fortress. The Jewish presence probably dates back to the 12th century. Its population soon increased as a result of the Spanish Inquisition, mainly due to the arrival of Jews from Aragon and Castile. As a result, the community asked King John II for the right to enlarge the synagogue. ...
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Vila Cova à Coelheira
This village, located outside Vila Nova de Paiva, welcomes a small Jewish Memory Center which is dedicated to the history of the presence of the Jewish community in the region. Located in a eighteenth century building, the well documented exhibition follows history through the eyes of the community. Go to the tourist office as you enter the village.
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Braganca
Bragança is a medieval hilltop town in northern Portugal, 22 kilometres from Spain. Although there seems to be no record of a Jewish presence in Bragança in the 12th century, the royal privileges of 1187 mention the penalties for attacking a Jew on arrival. In exchange for this royal protection, the community had to pay high taxes. During the reign of Alfonso IV (1325-1357), the city’s ...
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Faro
Capital of the Algarve region in southern Portugal, the city of Faro was home to a large Jewish community, expelled in 1497. A number of them continued to live there as conversos. Jews did not resettle “officially” in the city until the 19th century. In the fifteenth century, the time of its peak, Faro was a well-known center of Hebrew printing. In 1481, Samuel Porteira printed ...
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Lisbon
If Jews had to flee the city in the 16th century, Lisbon was also the city that welcomed Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition or the transit of Jews fleeing Nazism to the American continent. But since the turn of the 21st century it has been experiencing a renaissance of its Jewish life. On one side there is the sea and on the other the river. Frequent trips, recent returns, telling a ...
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Castelo de Vide
The Jews who lived within the walls of the little hilltop town of Castelo de Vide were engaged in the traditional activities of commerce, crafts, and sometimes medicine. The population grew after 1492 with the arrival of Jews from Spain. The former Judaria is fairly easy to identify around the (Praço de Comércio). Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the characteristic little ...
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Tomar
Although there was an organized community in Tomar at the turn of the fourteenth century, indicated by the inscription on the tombstone of Rabbi Joseph of Tomar, who died in Faro in 1315, it was not until 1430 that the Jews of Tomar had the means to undertake the construction of the synagogue. A building that still stands today. It was completed in 1460. After the expulsion of 1496 the ...
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Belmonte
The little community of Belmonte of between 100 and 300 souls was “discovered” in 1920 by the engineer Samuel Schwarz. Its existence was revealed to the world by Frédéric Brenner’s short film The Last Marranos in 1990. The Jews of Belmonte are one of the last groups bearing witness to the precarious life of Jews hunted by an all-powerful Inquisition and Church. They lived ...
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Porto
Porto is the capital of northern Portugal. It is the country’s second largest city after Lisbon. It is best known for its historic monuments and its wine. The Jewish presence dates back to the Middle Ages. The oldest Jewish quarter was located within the walls of the old city, where the Rua de Santa Ana is today, close to the Romanesque cathedral. In 1386, Dom Joao I granted land to the ...
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