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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Visit the Church of Nossa Senhora das Candeias - Vide

The Church of Our Lady of Candles, located in the Town of Vide, is a temple of two large ships, without great artistic effects and popular architecture.
The main body of the sixteenth century, has four round arches and masonry dome cove; the aisle, shorter, has three arches, also of masonry, and its medieval dome design with wavy ribs, is divided into four half moons.
Front of the High Altar, richly carved in baroque century. Seventeenth century there are three graves. XVI.
In the second chapel on the side of the Epistle, is the underground tomb, enclosed by a board worked and dated 1653, of Friar Gaspar Ribeiro de Simas and his wife, D. Frances de Siqueira. In the bow was set in front of your coat.

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