Sights in Estremoz
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Museum
This museum is housed in a beautiful 17th-century almshouse near the former palace. Pretty hand-painted furniture sits alongside endearing, locally carved wooden figures (charming rural scenes by Joaquim Velhinho) and a collection of typical 19th-century domestic Alentejan items. On the ground floor is an amazing display of the unique Estremoz pottery figurines – some 500 pieces covering 200 years, including lots of ladies with carnivalesque outfits, explosively floral headdresses and wind-rippled dresses. There’s even an entire 19th-century Easter Parade.
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Museu de Arte Sacra
Museu de Arte Sacra, with stately 17th- to 18th-century ecclesiastical silverware and religious statues. You also get to see the restored marble church and, best of all, a rooftop view from the bell towers themselves. The stairway to the top is lined with azulejos.
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Chapel
This richly adorned chapel behind the keep was built in 1659. The narrow stairway up to the chapel, and the chapel itself, are lined with 18th-century azulejos, most of them featuring scenes from the saintly queen’s life.
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