Igreja Nossa Senhora da Piedade

Porto Santo's mother church, on Largo do Pelourinho, on the site of the island's first chapel. Built between 1430 and 1446 and raised to a parish in 1500, pillaged and almost destroyed by French corsairs in 1566 and burnt several times, it was completely rebuilt in 1667. The Gothic Morgada chapel on the south side is the last trace of the 15th-century building. A modest façade, a single nave and a chancel beneath a polychrome rocaille wooden ceiling; altars and paintings by Martim Conrado and Max Römer. Nossa Senhora da Piedade is the island's patron, celebrated on the last weekend of August.