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Food, fireworks, music, costumes, and especially the huge papier-mâché effigies called gégants (giants) and their comical companions, the cabezudos (bigheads), are essential fiesta features.
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.
In the center of the Capela do Fundador (Founder’s Chapel), a tomb contains the remains of João and his queen, Philippa of Lancaster; their effigies lie side by side, hand in hand.
Nearer the port, a passage leads to the Museu de Cera (Wax Museum), a tourist trap with a collection of some three hundred realistic wax effigies.
In the transept, about 30 m (100 ft) apart, are the tombs of Pedro I and Inês de Castro, their effigies facing each other and surrounded by attendant angels.