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Notice the fine mosaic of Jesus and the New Jerusalem over the chancel.
In the chancel is the large tomb of Dom Paio Peres Correia, who drove the Moors out of Tavira in 1242.
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.
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.
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).