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This museum, inaugurated in 1955, is in the village of
Odrinhas, 11 km from Sintra. It contains a most interesting
collection of Latin epigraphy, installed in the space of
a Roman villa, of which various structures may still be
seen, including a polychrome mosaic, an imposing palaeo-Christian
apsidal monument and remains of a necropolis from the Middle
Ages. The epigraphic collection, considered the most complete
and important in the country, with about two hundred arae,
arulae and stones with Roman, Visigothic and Medieval epigraphs.
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