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One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).
The effigies of Ferdinand and Isabella lie on the right-hand side of the chancel, with those of their daughter Juana La Loca and her husband Felipe El Hermoso on the slightly higher monument on the left.
Go round to the back of the church to see its wonderful russet and brown stone chancel of interlacing arches, Gothic rose windows, and Arab windows with pointed arches.
At the top of the hill, on Rua da Igreja, is Igreja Matriz, a charming 16th-century church, with a delicately carved Manueline portico, perhaps the finest on the Algarve, and excellent 18th-century azulejos in the chancel.
In the chancel is the large tomb of Dom Paio Peres Correia, who drove the Moors out of Tavira in 1242.