Holy Cross Church

This little church is in a street off Rua Mouzinho Albuquerque, the main street that leads to the old town from the city's modern area. It was the church of the Confraternity of Santa Cruz and during the Middle Ages piously of buried the homeless dead. It was built in the seventeenth century, though deeply modified in the eighteenth, according to the plaque carved on its facade. Its facade is Neoclassical Baroque and made of granite, the roof is formed by a round arch topped with a triangular pediment. It has a single rectangular nave and the peculiarity that the High Altar is not made for any