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Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
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Rua da Alfarrobeira
7800-802, Beringel
Plant with nave, main chapel, bell tower, vestry and Casa dos Milagres (house of miracles). Inside stands out the chapel of São João Baptista with golden carving retable and painted panel with Christ’s Baptism. At the house of miracles are worthy of notice the painted panels with the “Birth of the Virgin” and the “Presentation of the virgin in the temple”.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
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Rua Mariano Feio
7900-195, Ferreira do Alentejo
Highlighting the decorative richness of the interior, such as the triumphal arch. The exterior facade is of Rococo architecture, with elaborate mortars shown.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Esperança
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Rua da Ermida
7780-347, Castro Verde
16th-century temple where stands out the gate, with reminiscences of Manueline armillary sphere. Presents the ship covered by a barrel vault, being the triumphal arch covered in gilt and the main Chapel covered with a dome.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pé da Cruz
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Rua do Pé da Cruz
7800-047, Beja
This church is dated from 1696 and it presents a baroque construction in which stand out the glazed tiles from the 17th century and the gold carving. The interior is richly decorated with a big diversity of colours on the coverage, paintings and canvas, contrasting with the exterior façades.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres
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Largo dos Prazeres
7800-420, Beja
This chapel is dated from 1672 and it is composed by two distinct bodies. The simple façade does not denunciate the artistic richness on its inside. Here it is possible to find one of the most important repositories of sacra art in the city and a joint of beautiful glazed tiles composed by historian panels from 1698 done by the painter Gabriel del Barco. The church body is covered by baroque carving and glazed tiles from the 18th century.
Igreja de Santa Catarina
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Largo da Igreja
7960-154, Selmes
The Chiesa Madre (mother church) of Selmes has harmonic facade. In the year 1755 the church building suffered various damages, including the frontispiece and vault of the choir, caused by the earthquake of November 1.
Igreja de Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz
7700-252, Santa Cruz
On this temple it stands out the Manueline doorway and the inside has many details from the construction period.
Igreja de Santa Luzia / Igreja Matriz de Pias
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Largo de Santo António
7830-206, Pias
Small temple with only one nave.
Igreja de Santa Margarida
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Praça Francisco Gonçalves Pereira
7900-455, Peroguarda
Parish Church, nave only, long and narrow as is characteristic of the popular building churches built during the middle ages. Inside, beyond the plastic quality of the altarpieces and the main altar of the chapel of the Senhora do Rosário, emphasis on the preservation of spaces with medieval marks. Outside the popular taste.
Igreja de Santa Maria
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Largo de Santa Maria
7800-133, Beja
Santa Maria Church is placed in a square with old buildings from which we stand out the Torrinha house, the former building for the City Hall and another Manueline building with a Coat of Arms on the door. It still preserves the apse structure, the porch, the baroque altars and the “Tree of Life” represented on a lateral chapel. It has undergone some transformations on the 15th, 16th, 17th and 19th centuries and it was restore in 1960. The classification as a Property of Public Interest includes the joint of buildings belonging to the church and to the attached watch …