Saint Stephen Church

Parish Church. Dedicated to the martyr Saint Stephen and located in the highest site of Santarém, was within the walls that confined the town, one of the oldest places. Existed in the XIII century, and was sacred at 1241, in February 16, and came to be known as the Church of the Holy Miracle, because it keeps the Consecrated Particle. Its medieval origin is documented by the presence of certain elements, which are still visible on transepto, not leaving any other evidence of this first architectural construction, whose disappearance was due to causes that continue even today, unclear.

It has been restored and transformed - rebuilt, in good truth - in the sixteenth century, with Renaissance accents, have lost traces of antiquity wich guaranteed it a new expression that again suffered an intervention around the first half of the century XVIII, which gave it Baroque characteristics, particularly with regard to their altars and decorations to the choir.