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Igreja do Carmo
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CHURCH
(Rua do Carmo; 8am-noon & 1-6pm Mon & Wed, 9am-6pm Tue & Thu, 9am-5.30pm Fri, 9am-4pm Sat,
9am-1.30pm Sun) Almost adjacent to the Cordoaria stands this striking azulejo -
covered church, and one of Porto's best examples of rococo architecture.
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
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MUSEUM
(Rua Dom Manuel II 44; adult/student €5/2, 10am-2pm Sun free; 10am-6pm Wed-Sun, 2-6pm Tue) A short
walk west of Cordoaria lands you at the town's most comprehensive art collection, which
ranges from Neolithic carvings to Portugal's take on modernism, all housed in the formid-
able Palácio das Carrancas.
Requisitioned by Napoleonic invaders, the neoclassical palace was abandoned so rap-
idly that the future Duke of Wellington found an unfinished banquet in the dining hall.
Transformed into a museum of fine and decorative arts in 1940, its best works date from
the 19th century, including sculptures by António Soares dos Reis (see especially his fam-
ous O Desterrado, The Exile ) and António Teixeira Lopes, and the naturalistic paintings
of Henrique Pousão and António Silva Porto.
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