The Historian · Rui · Lisbon
Igreja de São Roque
The flat façade is a trick. Inside is the most expensive chapel of its age, assembled in Rome and shipped here.
A plain-faced Jesuit church hiding one of Europe's most extravagant chapels — a fortune in gold, lapis, and mosaic.
— Rui, The Historian
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