Just across from the town hall is a sacred art museum attached to a church.

As with most churches for Portugal’s Misericórdia brotherhood, this imposing 17th-century building has a few annexes, which in 2004 were converted into museum galleries.

The museum starts in the sacristy and takes in the meeting hall, sacristan residence, the interior of the church and its high choir.

And divided between these spaces is a remarkable cache of painting, ceramics, sculpture, furniture, vestments and liturgical items from medieval times to the 20th century.