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Friday, May 31, 2019

Visit the Church of São Sebastião - Almaceda

The Church of São Sebastião, located in the parish of Almaceda, is a 16th century foundation, of which nothing survives, reformed in the second half of the century. XVIII and receiving renovations in 1962. It is of rectangular plan, composed of nave, chancel, annex and bell tower attached with different roofs in false vaults of wooden cradle and illuminated by windows in arch shot. Main facade finished in gable, with vains torn in axis, with axial portal of straight cock and perfect back window. Interior with coro-alto, based on corbels and columns integrating sinks of holy water, of probable eighteenth-century work, reformed in the 60's, with the construction of a new structure in concrete beam. It has a baptistery at the base of the tower, transformed into a confessional, a pulpit with access through the wall, a side chapel containing altarpieces decorated with nineteenth-century work, a triumphal arch flanked by retabular chapels arranged at an angle, eighteenth century, following a late-baroque language. Main altarpiece of straight body and five axles, the three central rococo carvings, most recently enlarged.

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