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the plague. Other features
2 " of the church are the scenes
São Roque of the Apocalypse painted Did You Know?
on the ceiling.
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literary personas,
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which he called
“heteronyms”.
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São Roque’s plain façade belies
q Baixa-Chiado # 10am–
a rich interior. The church was
6pm Mon–Sat (to 7pm Jun–
member of the Carmelite
founded at the end of the 16th
Sep) ¢ 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec
Order, the church was at one
century by the Jesuit Order,
then at the peak of its power.
Today, the main body of the
Carmelite church built on a
In 1742, the Chapel of St John
slope overlooking the Baixa,
the Baptist was commissioned
church and the chancel, whose
are evocative reminders of the roof withstood the earthquake,
by the prodigal João V from
Italian architects Luigi Vanvitelli The Gothic ruins of this time the biggest in Lisbon.
houses the Museu do Carmo,
dev astation left by the earth­
and Nicola Salvi. Constructed quake of 1755. The church with a small, heterogeneous
in Rome and embellished with collapsed during Mass, depo­ collec tion of sarcophagi,
jewels, precious marbles, gold, siting tons of masonry on to statuary, ceramics and mosaics.
silver and mosaics, the chapel the people below. Founded Among more ancient finds
was given the pope’s blessing in the late 14th century by from Europe are a remnant of
in the church of Sant’Antonio Nuno Álvares Pereira, the a Visigothic pillar and a Roman
dei Portoghesi in Rome, dis­ tomb carved with reliefs
mantled and sent to Lisbon depicting the Muses. There
in three ships. Interior of São Roque, are also finds from Mexico
Among the church’s many the earliest Jesuit and South America, including
tiles, the oldest and most church in Lisbon ancient mummies.
interesting are those in the
third chapel on the right,
dating from the 16th century
and dedicated to São Roque
(St Roch), protector against

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