Igreja de Santo António

St Anthony's Church now serves as the 'grand finale' to a tour of the town's Municipal Museum, the entrance to which is to be found in a side-street, via a building which was formerly the sacristy.Do be prepared for a bit of a wait; only a certain quota of visitors is allowed at any one time, and once inside the museum, bags must be handed over, in exchange for a locker ticket.That said, any wait and exchange of formalities will be more than compensated by the experience of seeing the chapel.The altarpiece, which frames a representation of St Anthony holding the Infant Jesus (rather than the ubiquitous Mother and Child), is an immense, coruscating bedazzlement of infinitely chiselled and exquisitely executed gilded woodwork, which also extends around much of the chapel. Note also the wall paintings, showing the miracles of St Anthony, most eye-catching of which is that showing the saint about to restore a severed foot!