Aveiro - The Cathedral and the local cemetery - The 18th of September 2016

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As Misi and I approached the Cathedral of Aveiro we came across the following sentence written on a wall - Deus morreu (God is dead). The Church was filled with worshippers nonetheless and we had to wait for quite a while till those attending a morning mess left, so we could briefly visit its interior. Founded in 1423 as a Domenican Convent the Cathedral, also known as São Domingos Church is said to have been subject to a major renovation process in the 16th and 17th centuries.

 

 

Some of the religious artefacts, as well as glaze tile panels caught my attention both at the entrance hall, altarpiece and side chapels.

We decided to have a look at the cemetery located close by and there again several things cautght our attention, namely regarding the decoration and shape of the doors of some burial plots but especially the following sentence above one of those "Aqui jaz um velho infeliz" (here lies an unhappy old man).

 

Aveiro - Around the Hotel Melia area - 16th to the 18th of September 2016

Most of the pictures I was able to take during the Techdays Fair were either fairly early in the morning (external) and in late evenings (interior) and mostly  in the canal around the Hotel area, once we were at the enterprise stand all day long.

Both the hotel and its surrounding area were particularly interesting, though it wasn't but on Sunday, when the fair was over and before getting back to Lisbon, that I finally managed to take pictures of different views (including to rather exquisite graffitis) as I walked a bith further into the town centre still along the same canal.