St. Michael's Church
In St. Michael’s Church—known in Lisbon as Igreja de Santo Estêvão—a 12th-century place of worship was completely rebuilt in 1733–1740 in the Baroque style. The reconstruction was carried out according to the “risco” of Manuel da Costa Negreiros, and later guided by Mateus Vicente de Oliveira, turning an older church into a façade with pilasters and a central pediment crowned by a cross. That Baroque presence was tested by catastrophe: after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the church suffered damage, and later renovations prepared it to reopen in 1773. Even in its design, the building recorded the quake—one of its towers was destroyed by the earthquake, changing the balance of the original elevation. In 1918, it gained protection as a National Monument under Decree No. 5 046. …
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