Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Glória do Outeiro

This guide to Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Glória do Outeiro in Rio de Janeiro asks what a military engineer, trained for fortress walls, does when handed a hilltop chapel instead. It follows Lieutenant Colonel José Cardoso Ramalho's twin-octagon floor plan taking shape between roughly 1714 and 1739, unlike anything else built in colonial Rio, and the blue-and-white Portuguese tilework added inside between 1735 and 1740, believed to be the work of Valentim de Almeida. Step inside and look down at that tilework lining the lower walls as you listen.