IGREJA DE SÃO FRANCISCO
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This church located in Évora is known for its chapel encrusted with 5,000 skulls and tibias.
The church itself is rather sad: banal architecture, grey stones and chapels furnished with talha dourada of poor proportions.
Capela dos Ossos. The most plastic representation of the vanity of this world (the work of a 16th-century Franciscan) awaits you in this chapel encrusted with 5,000 skulls and human bones. It's an ordered pile of eye sockets that, depending on where you sit, end up staring back at you with empty eyes, while a sort of hanging, emaciated body theatrically expresses the ephemeral nature of life.
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Par contre, l'église elle-même n'est pas si austère que ce qu'en dit le guide: elle emprunte beaucoup d'éléments à diverses religions, se tenant contre l'Inquisition de l'époque, et les autels sont le reflet de trois styles différents qui étaient en vogue à l'époque: le rococo, le baroque et le classique.