São Pedro Parish Church

The São Pedro Parish Church was built in 1404 over the ruins of an old temple that had existed in the same place. It is not certain whose idea it was to build the church, but it is believed that it was either from Nuno Álvares Pereira (born in the municipality and a national hero) or from Álvaro Gonçalves Camelo (Prior of Crato, whose tomb can be seen inside the church).

The building is divided in three naves, featuring Gothic lancet arches covered by sixteenth-century polychrome tiles, which rest on granite columns with chamfered edges.

At the presbytery, be dazzled by the luxurious altarpieces in baroque gilded carving, made in 1685 by the Oporto carvers Domingos Nunes and António Gomes and afterwards golden by Francisco Rocha.

At the sacristy, visitors can find the late-Mannerists boards representing the “Pentecost”, the “Birth of the Virgin”, the “Introduction of the Virgin to the Temple”, the “Annunciation” and the “Assumption of the Virgin”, paintings from the second quarter of the seventeenth-century.

Address:

Travessa da Matriz, 9, 6100-753 Sertã

GPS coordinates:

N 39º 48'24.46" W 8º 05'58.27"