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Monuments in Lisboa
Igreja de São Nicolau
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Rua da Vitória
1100-618, Lisboa
Imposing church located downtown, with a single nave and collateral chapels, high-choir and square main chapel. It has a neo-classical façade, without towers, crowned by a simple triangular fronton. Inside the décor is similar to the Mártires Church, from the same architect.
Ruínas da Igreja do Carmo
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Largo do Carmo
1200-092, Lisboa
The gothic ruins of this church, built upon a hill, remind the earthquake of 1755. At the only intact space works an archaeological museum that presents a small and heterogeneous collection of sarcophagus, statues, ceramic and mosaic. Outside is the Carmo Fountain decorated with four beautiful dolphins.
Igreja Paroquial da Ameixoeira / Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Encarnação
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Estrada da Ameixoeira, 118
1750-017, Lisboa
Church integrated in a Lisbon suburb characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a Baroque building with a facade of the second half of the 18th century. It has a single nave, lined with 18th-century figurative tiles, rectangular plant with coverage in painted wooden caissons.
Panteão Nacional / Igreja de Santa Engrácia
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Campo de Santa Clara
1100-471, Lisboa
It is one of the most magnificent monuments of Lisbon, with the huge church cupola standing out of the city roofs. The construction, dated from the late XVII century, opens a new baroque cycle with a clear Italian influence.
Igreja de São João Baptista
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Largo de São João Baptista
1600-760, Lisboa
Church of longitudinal plant consisting of three staggered naves of five bays and a chancel closer, showing internal coverings. Features of Manueline, Mannerist and Baroque architecture. Inside, the main altarpiece of Mannerist gilded.
Igreja de Santo António de Lisboa
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Largo de Santo António da Sé
1100-401, Lisboa
A church that was financed, partly by the donations of the children that used to wander in the streets asking “a coin to Saint António”. The ground of the small crypt chape lis filled with coins and the walls have sentences wrote by the devotee. This temple was rebuilt in 1767.
Igreja de Santa Luzia
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Largo de Santa Luzia
1100-487, Lisboa
On the south façade of this church are worthy of notice the modern style glazed tiles: one related to the Comércio Square before the earthquake of 1755 and the other referring to the Christian invasion of São Jorge Castle in 1147. The classification of National Monument relates to the graves, with Portuguese or Latin inscriptions distributed by the main chapel, arms of the transept and nave. Next to the Church, the belvedere offers a panoramic view of the Alfama quarter and the river.
Igreja de Santa Isabel
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Rua Saraiva de Carvalho, 2-A
1250-096, Lisboa
Church of great dimensions with a longitudinal drawing, a single nave and chapel vaulted with lateral walls.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Mártires
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Rua Garret
1200-203, Lisboa
Work from the late XVIII century. The central body of the principal front is dived in two bodies separated by a cornice. Inside the paintings of Pedro Alexandrino decorate the ceiling.