Capela das Almas
428 Rua de Santa Catarina, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4000-444, Portugal
The Chapel of Souls is a small church on Porto's busiest shopping street that's entirely covered in blue and white azulejo tiles — all four exterior walls, from ground to roofline, wrapped in approximately 15,947 tiles depicting the lives and deaths of various saints with the graphic enthusiasm that 18th-century Portuguese Catholics brought to martyrdom.
Clérigos Church
Rua de São Filipe de Nery, Porto
The Clérigos Church is the body attached to the famous tower, and it deserves more than a passing glance on the way to the stairs.
Igreja de Santo Ildefonso
11 Praça da Batalha, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4000-468, Portugal
Santo Ildefonso is the church that stops traffic on Rua de 31 de Janeiro — its entire facade is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejo tiles depicting scenes from the life of Saint Ildefonsus and allegories of the Eucharist, installed in 1932 by Jorge Colaço, the same artist who painted São Bento Station.
Igreja de São Francisco
Rua do Inf D Henrique, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-296, Portugal
The Church of São Francisco is Gothic on the outside and absolute madness on the inside.
Igreja do Carmo & Igreja dos Carmelitas
Rua do Carmo, Porto
Two churches pressed so close together they share a wall — and the reason is one of the most absurd pieces of Portuguese bureaucracy in history.
Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto)
Terreiro da Sé, Porto
Porto's cathedral looks like a fortress because it basically is one.
Torre dos Clérigos
Rua de São Filipe de Nery, Porto
The Clérigos Tower is Porto's exclamation mark — a 76-metre Baroque bell tower that dominates the skyline and has been the city's most recognisable landmark since it was completed in 1763.
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