The Onix Hotel
The Onix Hotel is situated at three kilometres from Viseu - The Garden City, just between the Serra da Estrela and Serra do Caramulo, intersection of the major and ancient Roman trails. It is also the birthplace of the hero Viriato and it is well known for its Cathedral and for the Grão Vasco Museum, where are some of the most beautiful work of art of the fifteen century and an important collection of Sacred Art
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Viseu is both a city (capital of the District of Viseu) and a municipality in central Portugal. The municipality, with an area of 507.1 km², has a population of 96,810. (census 2001). Viseu is also one of the Grandes Áreas Metropolitanas - Greater Metropolitan Areas of Portugal with 354,162 habitants. This important hub in the center of the country is crossed by an important European road link, the A25 (former IP5) that connects it to the seaport of Aveiro and Guarda and then on to Salamanca in Spain. The IP3, connecting Coimbra with Chaves on the Spanish border, crosses Viseu from south to north. Until the nineteen eighties Viseu had railway connections with the coast, but these were closed. Now the city is one of the largest cities in Europe with no railway connections.
Viseu was the birthplace of one of the greatest Portuguese painters of the sixteenth century, Vasco Fernandes (1475-1540), known as Grão Vasco, who today lends his name to a museum that houses most of his paintings (the Grão Vasco Museum), a hotel, a school, and even a brand of wine. The museum, installed in the old episcopal palace, shows some of his masterpieces and paintings of other painters of the period known as the school of Viseu. The city is rich in churches, convents and chapels. In addition to the cathedral there are six major churches, four chapels, two convents, and the bishop´s palace. There is also a sacred art museum in the cathedral.
