Igreja da Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco

The interior of the Igreja da Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco (Church of the Venerable Third Order of São Francisco). This church sites between the better known Church of São Francisco and the House of Dispatch.

The church was built at the end of the 18th century in a Classical style, which was something of a departure from the Baroque which had become more or less ubiquitous at during the 1700s.

The interior we see here is fairly ostentatious by most people's standards, but compared to the church next door it is fairly restrained.

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