Church of Santa Maria
Romanesque-Gothic parish church with a quake-surviving portal and a bell older than its tower.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of Santa Maria in Sintra follows one parish church through the day in seventeen fifty-five when the ground under Portugal moved. It reaches back to the chapel Afonso Henriques founded after taking Sintra from the Moors, and to the prior who rebuilt it in stone. Stand facing the main façade, where the walls themselves carry the record.
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