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