igreija Matrix - Largo Carvalhal 75

Very beautiful.

Old small church, city center ??

Beautiful place for mass and prayer.

A small church Matriz, orago San Sebastian erected on a high point in relation to the main street. Of simple and typical architecture of the regions of the Beiras and Trás-os-Montes constructed to the control of the parish between the years of 1700 and 1710 due to the population increase of the locality of Barrelas this was called Vila Nova de Paiva that belonged to the coutos of the monastery of Arouca . They differ as to whether the present Matriz church was built on the site of a Romanesque temple dating from the late 11th century or whether some of the architectural details still visible on the outside and inside were used, such as the baptismal font and the columns that support the choir, or of another building existing in the immediate vicinity, but the true artistic richness of this church lies in the exuberant and meticulous works and gilded and polychrome carving of the baroque Joanino style. Inside one nave is divided by four sections of recessed arches and among them there are 49 painted crates that illustrate the geological tree of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of St. Matthew, the pulpit also built in polychrome gold carving, next to the triumphal arch there are two collateral altars, inside the sacristy there is a retable Mannerist who was the main altar before the eighteenth intervention. On its main facade of simple architecture there is a perfect back gate and double bell tower, on the south facade a perfect back porch with a Christ cross carved in relief.