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The Church and the São Roque museum in Bairro Alto combines to provide an absorbent cultural experience - each one complements the other.Rich beautified with marble, azulejos and golden wood, the church is celebrated for its series of side chapels, one of which, the chapel of São João Baptista, simply blinds the viewer with his decorary decoration.built in Rome and shipped to Lisbon.Adorned with amethyst, Lapis Lazuli, precious marble and inlaid with gold, silver and ivory, the central piece of the chapel is the complicated mosaic of Christ by Mattia Moretti completed in 1750. In no other chapel, the chapel of São Roque, presents the oldest and most striking Azulejos, signed by Francisco and from 1584.Above all this is a majestic ceiling - the only example in Lisbon of a painted ceiling.A culminating point is the altar for São Roque, a series of panels from the beginning of the sixteenth century that illustrates the life of the saint.But spending time, looking for refined individual pieces, such as the relics of Saint Francis Xavier made in Goa in 1686 of pierced silver.The eighteenth-century vestment ensemble, bright in silk and gold embroidery, is a rare collection.