Church of Saint Ildefonso
Baroque church whose facade blazes with eleven thousand blue and white azulejo tiles.
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This guide to the Church of Saint Ildefonso in Porto opens in a cathedral in Toledo, where an apparition said to be the Virgin Mary is said to have handed a ceremonial robe to the scholar-bishop Ildefonso, a legend painted across the eleven thousand blue-and-white azulejo tiles on this facade, a thousand miles from where it happened. Look up at the scenes on the facade, laid out like an illustrated storybook you can read from the square below.
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