• Saint Roque Church

Igreja de Sao Roque in Bairro Alto district is one of the world’s first Jesuit churches. The church was built in the 16th century with a simple facade but with extravagant interiors and remarkable, highly decorated chapels. The church’s Capela de Sao Joao Baptista was built in the 18th century in Rome, in a Baroque style with gold, marble and Portuguese tiles, and is considered to be one of Europe’s most expensive chapels.

View of the exquisite Baroque interior of the Jesuit Church of Saint Roch, built in the 16th century in Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal

Saint John the Baptist baroque style chapel in Church of Saint Roch (Igreja de Sao Roque) in Lisbon, Portugal. It is the earliest Jesuit church of Portugal