Monuments

Igreja e Convento de São Domingos (Church and Convent of São Domingos) 
The church of São Domingos or church of Santa Cruz used to belong to the old Convent of Santa Cruz. This was founded by the Dominican Friar Bartolomeu dos Mártires, the Holy Archbishop beatified by Pope John Paul II and renowned for his participation in the Council of Trent.

It is a sixteenth-century temple, built between 1566 and 1576, following the layout designed by the Dominican Friar Julião Romero, the same person who designed the Church of São Gonçalo de Amarante.

Inside we can admire several altars wrought in beautiful gilded carving, especially the splendid altarpiece of the north arm of the transept, in talha gorda woodcarving, by the Braga master José Alvares de Araújo, based on the design commissioned from the master André Soares by the brotherhood of the Rosary, in 1760. It was considered a "rocaille-style masterpiece in all of Europe" by the North American researcher Robert Smith, a Portuguese carving scholar in the 1970s.