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gigantic wine casks lined up behind the bar. The menu features a long list of carefully pre-
pared regional snacks, from
salpicão
(small rounds of smoked ham) to pig's ear in vinai-
grette sauce, plus an excellent selection of quaffable local wines.
BAR
Biblioteca
(Travessa Cândido dos Reis)
This bar-disco with a name meaning 'library' attracts a raucous and
decidedly nonliterary younger crowd.
Centro Cultural de Chaves
( 276 333 713; Largo da Estação)
Chaves' brand-new cultural centre stages regular concerts,
plays and other events, most of them free of charge. For details on current shows, see the
monthly
Agenda Cultural,
available at the tourist office.
PERFORMING ARTS
Information
9am-7pm Mon-Fri)
Free internet at the town library.
Biblioteca Municipal
(Largo General Silveira;
276 300 900; Av Francisco Sá Carneiro)
Northwest of the centre.
Hospital
(
Police Station
(
276 323 125; Avenida Xavier Teixeira)
Post Office
(Largo General Silveira;
8.30am-1pm & 2-5.30pm Mon-Fri)
Regional Turismo
(
276 348 180; turismo@portoenorte.pt; Terreiro de Cavalaria;
9am-12.30pm & 2-5.30pm
)
Helpful multilingual tourist office.
Mon-Sat;
Getting There & Around
BUS
Santo Amaro)
have terminals just north and west of the centre respectively. Only Tâmega
serves all of the following destinations: Bragança (€11.60, three hours, one daily at 4pm),
Coimbra (€13.40, 3¾ hours, three daily), Lisbon (€21.60, six to seven hours, three daily),
Porto (€13.40, 2¼ hours, several daily) and Vila Real (€8, 1¼ hours, several daily).
CAR & MOTORCYCLE
There's plenty of free public parking below the Torre da Menagem and around Jardim do
Tabolado.
