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Must See
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1 Slender pillars rise like palm
trees to the spectacular vaulted
roof in the church of Santa Maria.
2 The 19th-century tomb of
navigator Vasco da Gama is fes-
tooned with seafaring symbols.
3 João de Castilho’s pure Manueline
cloisters are adorned with delicate
tracery and richly carved arches.
3
The chapterhouse holds
the tomb of Alexandre
Herculano, historian and
Cloister first mayor of Belém.
Did You Know?
Eighteenth-century
azulejos in the rectory
depict the Feeding of
the Five Thousand.
The chancel,
commissioned in 1572
by Dona Catarina, the
wife of João III
The empty tomb
of the “longed
The geometrical lines of the for” Dom
south portal are covered with Sebastião
exuberant decoration.
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