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I took a Bolt car to visit the Santuário do Bom Jesus do Monte which was a little bit out of the city, and we'll worth the visit, even in the heat - it was at least 95F today.

The Santuário is located in a beautiful park on the slopes of Mount Espinho.

There's a small lake, walkways, and a man made grotto, but the star of the show is the church, or more specifically, the series of stairs leading up to it.

My driver dropped me off at the top so I didn't have to scale the 573 steps up in the heat. Though I could have taken the funicular if I had been dropped off at the bottom.

I did walk down, and took pictures at each landing.

After descending the stairs there was a very pretty walkway (fortunately with a lot of shade). Along the walkway were some small buildings, which I finally realized we're chapels. Within each one was a biblical scene.Read more