Panteão de Santa Engrácia Church Lisbon

Although there are plenty of cheap hotels on offer, staying in one of the discount hotels near the Panteão de Santa Engrácia Church in Lisbon can be especially interesting – it has a story to tell. The Church actually stands on the site of a former church that was torn down after being desecrated a robbery in 1603. A Jew was blamed for the robbery, executed but then was later exonerated. It is said that he cursed the church shortly before he died. The rebuilt structure is close to being a copy of St Paul’s in Rome, and is in the shape of a Greek cross. The church was actually only completed in 1966.