Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo: Bragança - Church of Santa Maria do Castelo

Published on 12:05pm 04/18/2009 by Sinbad the sailor

Rua do Santo Condestavel
Bragança

Tel: +351-273322378

Church, Cathedral, Chapel in Bragança

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Located just next to Bragança's Castle, the Church of Santa Maria do Castelo has beautiful ceilings and interior paintings. The high altar and rich crafted inner chapels (some from the XVI century) deserve also a note. The entrance is clearly baroque, with two highly decorated Salomon (twisted) columns. The Church's origin though was Romanesque, but several restoration works done between the XVI and XVIII centuries, gave it a baroque style.
This is the oldest church in Bragança, also called Igreja de Santa Maria da Assunção. The people knows it also by the name of Our Lady of Sardão, because of a holy statue found in a “place of lizards” (sardão is a kind of lizard, in Portuguese).

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