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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Visit the Church of Senhora-a-Branca - São Victor (Braga)

The Lady-a-white Church, located in the Parish of St. Victor, dates back to the 14th century. But none of this remains, the earliest part was now made between 1505 and 1532. These years are the main door (marked by its small stone arms) and the architecture of the lower part of the choir, sparse remnants of an intervention that stretched out to the whole temple.
At the beginning of the last quarter of the seventeenth century the church received several changes.
The present altar is, in itself, a good reflection of the successive changes of taste of the men who governed the church during the second half of the century. XVIII.
The result of these new works can only today be evaluated by the tabernacle, the only remaining piece. It is that in 1783 the retable received important alterations that gave him the neo-classic air that now presents.
Also in 1783 were built two new collateral altarpieces, with their blue and white painting; fortunately that care has been taken to preserve the old and beautiful cribs that are seen in the altarpieces that are first on each side of the nave.

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