Mosaics Igreja Paroquial de Vera Cruz / Igreja de Santa Cruz e de Nossa Senhora da Apresentação - Aveiro, Portugal
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ariberna
N 40° 38.581 W 008° 39.221
29T E 529282 N 4499186
Two mosaics in the façade
Waymark Code: WM16PF8
Location: Aveiro, Portugal
Date Posted: 09/10/2022
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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These huge mosaics made of blue-toned tiles placed on the facade of the church represent two biblical scenes: The Annunciation and the scene of the merchants in the temple.

"The Church of Our Lady of the presentation date of 1606 and was, at that time, place the fountain. Already in the seventeenth century, beginning of the eighteenth century, the façade is adorned by two panels of tiles and the interior, completely gilded, covered with a Gothic virgin, in alabaster. I suffered in the restoration of the 20th century."

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R. Dom Jorge de Lencastre 7-3,
Aveiro, Portugal


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