Monuments

The Chapel of São Brás, located outside the walls of Évora, was ordered built by D. João II in 1480, at the site of a small leprosarium where plague victims were treated. Thus, the people of Évora, the crown and the executor of the work, D. Garcia de Meneses, Bishop of Évora, demonstrated their devotion to São Brás, protector of the victims of epidemics. The builder is unknown but it is one of the most important monuments in the city of Évora.

It is one of the first examples of the Manueline-Mudejar style of architecture, very widespread throughout the Alentejo region and characterised by the use of cylindrical buttresses with conical spires.  The church marks the introduction of the late Gothic in Évora, along with the churches of Lóios and São Francisco. The noteworthy architectural features include the zoomorphic granite gargoyles along the building.

Worthy of mention inside are the 16th-century tile panels with Mudejar influences, with geometric patterns in green and white, and the 19th-century altars in gilt carving dedicated to São Romão and Nossa Senhora das Candeias.  There is an image of the patron saint on the high altar.

The church was enriched by Cardinal Infante D. Henrique in the 16th century.