#tavira

Tavira, Algarve, Portugal. And the River Gilão.

For the 65th time, Portuguese tiles from the town of Tavira.

Tavira and the River Séqua on a mildly cloudy afternoon.

The main altar of the Church of Saint Paul, in Tavira - in its current configuration. The church itself was built in the early XVII Century - circa 1606, to be more exact -, but this altar is an amalgam of elements from different eras and different places.

Jesus on the cross and the Arma Christi (Instruments of the Passion of Christ) - this is one of the several side altars of the Parish Church of Santiago (Saint James), in Tavira. A trained eye may notice that these Arma Christi (middle image) have a vaguely similar style to that of the Arma Christi of the Hermitage of the Calvary, also in Tavira (well, technically, it's located on the outskirts of Tavira) - I would not be surprised if both had been painted by the same artist, whose name remains a mistery.

Maybe, that is a good metaphor for life itself: in the end, all you need is a mere change of perspective.

Portuguese tiles - not the usual tiles you find in common houses, but XVII Century tiles. These ones can be found in the Hermitage of Our Lady of Consolation, a small and humbele church in the centre of Tavira, built circa 1648, in front of where once stood the old (and demolished) early-XVI Century jail.