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IGREJA DE SÃO FRANCISCO

Church – Cathedral – Basilica – Chapel
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Praça 1º de Maio, Évora, Portugal
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2024
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2024

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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Alizz
Visited in march 2015
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Belle église mais la chapelle aux ossements est beaucoup plus intéressante. Les empilage d'os sont très impressionnants !

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