The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral ( pt, Sé Catedral de Santa Maria da Graça) also called Setúbal Cathedral is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church that works as the Cathedral of

Setúbal Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area. In the ti ...

, a city in

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. It is located in the heart of the primitive medieval town of Setúbal, around which the most important medieval district of the city as well as the religious and administrative center developed. Founded in the thirteenth century, the current building is a reconstruction of the High

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with a

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facade. Inside are frescoed columns and tiles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On a side street is the

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porch of an old house, the Hospital João Palmeiro.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Church Setubal Buildings and structures in Setúbal

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