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Built in the 17th century, at the top of the hill known by the same name, it is currently in a very advanced state of ruin.
Inserted in a private property, it is a small-sized buttressed church, but its commissioner is unknown, as well as the reasons for its construction. Similarly, the date of its disaffection from religious worship is not known.
It had a single nave, with a barrel vault, and a quadrangular main chapel covered by a half spherical dome. According to Espanca, it had fresco paintings.
Above its debris, a triangulation station was placed in 1851.
From the top of its ruins, an immense and distant landscape of Alentejo can be enjoyed.
REFERENCES
ESPANCA, Túlio, Inventário Artístico de Portugal: Distrito de Évora: Concelhos de Alandroal, Borba, Mourão, Portel, Redondo, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Viana do Alentejo e Vila Viçosa, Lisboa, Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes, 1978,Tomo IX, Vol. 1.
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