Sacred Spaces in Portugal

An icon of the city, this chapel features an amazing dome ceiling and offers panoramic views.

This chapel is the site of a yearly pilgrimage that originated during the Middle Ages.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

This oddly shaped church resembles a rocket.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.