The popular São Miguel Church uses granite for its main elements. The main façade has a verticality that contrasts with the low body. The elevations are stripped back and limited to the essentials. The simplicity and functionality of the floor plan is also striking, consisting of a single nave, chancel and sacristy.
The interior decorative trend, although modest, tries to distinguish itself from the stripped-down exterior. Here, gilded and polychrome carving takes center stage, with sensitive shapes and colors.
The two side altarpieces, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Michael the Archangel, its patron saint, are the product of the same campaign of improvements and aesthetic updating that took place in the second half of the 18th century.
The main altarpiece predates this and is another example of the long phase of introducing the Baroque style into the retablo of northeast Trás-os-Montes. The two forms used are Baroque, but adapted to the rectitude of the classical tradition, and this was at the beginning of the 18th century.

ADDRESS

41º 34' 21.20" N
6º 51' 45.70" W

LOCALITY

Valdrez- Macedo de Cavaleiros