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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Visit the Church of San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The church of S. Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra) is a church foundation medieval changed in the sixteenth century and consists of a nave, with vault sixteenth and magnificent blue and white tiles, the 1 st half of the eighteenth century on the side walls, depicting scenes from the life of S . Peter.
In 1565 it was rebuilt and enlarged. In a simple and brief, we can describe this mother church as a temple of a nave with a vault Manueline. The middle of the nave we see a closing of vault with a crest that supports the wheel blades used by the Castros Santa Catarina. The facade and tower are baroque and tiled walls, white and blue. The tiles of the nave, are composed of a heraldic theme - the arms D. Thomas Adams and symbolic - the keys of St. Peter. The figurative panels, straight frame, represent the cycle of St. Peter as an apostle and companion of Jesus and his Apostles after the Ascension.
Inside the temple is still a Gothic sculpture of St. Peter Stone-Ançã, dating from the fifteenth century and originally from Romanesque chapel of St. Pedro Castle.

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