Isidoro Guedes Park

Next to the City Council, in front of the Church das Chagas, is Isidoro Guedes Park, built in the early seventeenth century on the site of the old Convent dos Gracianos. It occupies an entire block and is a great park that to enjoy nature in its purest form, it's not a typical garden with mushrooms and flowers, but sort of a natural forest (mainly populated by pines). The upper part has a plaza with a pool bar cafeteria. From here going downstream, and taking advantage of the natural slope, there are granite benches as an open-air auditorium where summer concerts are often held. At the bottom is