Capela-Farol de São Miguel-o-Anjo
Renaissance chapel-lighthouse from the fifteen twenties guiding ships past a treacherous river mouth.
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This guide to the Capela-Farol de São Miguel-o-Anjo in Porto follows Dom Miguel da Silva, a Rome-educated diplomat exiled from the royal court to a windswept sandbar where the Douro meets the Atlantic. You'll hear how he turned that banishment into a building project, hiring the Italian architect Francesco Cremona to raise a tower where ships had wrecked for generations. Look for the carved inscription that still names Silva and the year he paid for it himself.
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