Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Silva
Rua dos Caldeireiros, Porto 4050 - Portugal
Phone: +351 222 057 514
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This small chapel has an ornate and interesting façade. The Nossa Senhora da Silva brotherhood has been housed in the building since the 15th century. It contains the chapel and a lodge and used to be managed by the blacksmiths, coppersmiths and the fish hook manufacturers of Porto. At first floor level of the façade there is an 18th century oratory, protected by a carved wooden canopy, with images of Nossa Senhora da Silva, St John the Baptist and St Baldomero The latter was a blacksmith turned monk and the patron saint of blacksmiths.
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