Chapel at Vista Alegre

The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França was built around 1693 by Bishop D. Manuel de Moura Manuel (1632 to 1699), after a promise he had made; the same record says he also built the Fonte do Carrapichel at that time. It became a National Monument by a decree of 16 June 1910. Its facade is Baroque, and the two bell towers were added later. It closes the central square of the estate, and festivities for the patron saint are held every year on the last Sunday of June.

The estate had a long ownership chain before porcelain. In the second half of the 17th century Manuel Furtado Botelho (died 1733) bought plots to form one large property. After the bishop's illegitimate daughter D. Teodora Moura Manuel died, the Crown acquired it and later gave it to D. Ana Teresa Luísa de Sousa. José Ferreira Pinto Basto bought the Quinta do Paço da Ermida in 1812 and the Quinta da Ermida in 1816, at auction. From 1826 the family built a workers' village with housing, a theatre, a school and a nursery. A bela-sombra tree planted in 1828 is classified as a Tree of Public Interest.