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Notice the fine mosaic of Jesus and the New Jerusalem over the chancel.
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.
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.
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.
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).