Esposende has a great wealth in its cultural and natural patrimony, that is reflected in the architecture and the traditions, being scene of a many-colored and intense cultural life, specially in the populations of Forjães, Apúlia, Fão and Esposende. In these cities, the theater, musical and ethnographic spectacles give to life to gastronomical samples and exhibitions, harnessed by diverse local colectivities and the Municipal Museum of Esposende. The singular characteristics of the populations land-fisheries of the coast, combined the rural communities of the interior, which strongly are influenced by the Brazilian flavor of new the rich ones which they returned of the South American country “returns-viagem”. They were they who in the first decades of century XX commanded to construct residences (villa) for the summering, with a style “art novates”.
Destiny of vacations, leisure and rest for poets, writers, journalists, musicians, architects, escultores and painters, immortalized in this place, literary and artistic works, where the monuments and the landscapes are the main protagonists.
The Lot of You fold is a fifth agriculturist of century XVII, in Forjães; the House of Belinho, poet António Correia de Oliveira, in Belinho; the old Church, where the original Bath started up Santo, one of most important romerías of the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to the benefits of the water of the sea, in San Bartolomeu of Sea; the Chapel of the Mareantes, with its genuine ceiling of the apostles, whose vault is carved in a stature of great policromía, in the Church of the Mercy in Esposende; the Fort of San João Baptista, fortification of century XVII, Vauban in the North margin of laughs it of the river, where at the moment the light of Esposende lodges; the axe of the Bonança, small hard with watchtower, that was very important in the coastal defense during the French invasions and in the liberal fights, in Fão; the Chapel of the Lady gives Bonança, virgin pattern and protector of the fishermen, who from the sea of the Afurada in the Galicia neighbor, took refuge here to half-full of century XX. Also in Fão, other property of patrimonial interest stand out to visit.