Visit the Church of Our Lady of Salvation - Arruda dos Vinhos

The Church of Our Lady of Salvation, is located in the parish of Arruda dos Vinhos.
It has an image of Our Lady of Salvation, thought to be earlier than the sixteenth century, is five feet tall and topped by elegant silver crown, the image of the Virgin and Child, has been the subject of much veneration over the times.
The church, the longitudinal plan, divided into three naves separated by arches and proportionate. The main chapel has a magnificent baroque altarpiece of gilded wood, surrounding the image of Our Lady of Salvation. There are still six appreciable sixteenth century paintings that bring glory to the side walls of tile eighteenth century.
The vast array of tiles of this church, referring to the type of polychrome tiles diamond tip of the seventeenth century and other eighteenth-century blue and white lining the walls, inserting them panels with figures of saints such as St. Christopher and St. George.
Opens to ship a chapel that was dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi and joined the Franciscan Third Order, and was later made ​​the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. In this chapel, can also be enjoyed a gilded altarpiece and green. Adorn the shrine a number of seventeenth-century paintings. The walls depict moments in the life of St. Francis in eighteenth-century polychrome tile panels.
Outside the church rises the bell tower topped by sixteenth-century spire. The front also sports a beautiful Manueline, flanked by pilasters with embossed images of human figures.