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Covering the chancel behind the main altar, the Ghirlandaio frescoes of the lives of the Madonna and St. John kept the master’s entire workshop busy from 1485 to 1490.
In the chancel is the large tomb of Dom Paio Peres Correia, who drove the Moors out of Tavira in 1242.
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.
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.
Adding to an earlier Gothic design, Donato Bramante — Pope Julius II’s chief architect in Rome — fashioned a magnificent red brick and white stone chancel (tribuna) in 1492.