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According to Dr. Alfredo da Silva Sampaio, based on DRUMMOND ("Anais da Ilha Terceira"), this hermitage was built in 1615 by the then Governor of the Fortress of São João Baptista, D. Gonçalo Mexia. This date is also informed by a stone engraving above the entrance door.

Several buildings were built around the hermitage in Hortas, some of which were rebuilt a few years ago; and in Cruzeiro, which already existed in 1556, where the current hermitage was built in 1739, with the title of Senhor Santo Cristo do Cruzeiro, as it had the same image of Christ on the carved cross, all in a single stone, which existed in the aforementioned 'Cruzeiro'.

The Chapel of St Joseph (Capela de São José) is a 17th-century building dedicated to São José, patron saint of the naval carpenters who worked in shipyards near this place. It has a single nave with tiled walls.

The Chapel of São Miguel is a Manueline-style sacred building in the heart of Coimbra.

The Chapel of St Apolline was built in the 14th century and is still used regularly for worship. From the 16th century, the building fell into disrepair, saved from demolition by its use as a stable. The States of Guernsey purchased the building in 1873 for £120 while it was in use as a stable. This was the first such purchase to preserve important buildings in Guernsey.

Described by Oscar Wilde as 'the most delightful private chapel in London', this is arguably the most sumptuous hospital chapel in the country.

The chapel of St. John the Baptist, near the village of Kenourgio Horio, is the only surviving structure of the ancient monastery of St. John Pezetis. It can be reached by a dirt road from the cemetery of the village.

The Chapel of St John is the only remaining part of a monastery of the Order of St John of Jerusalem built by the Knights Hospitallers around 1175. Other buildings, to the north and south, were attached to this chapel.

The chapel of St Urbana dates back to 1829. The chapel has a bell tower above the main façade, with the year 1889 on the lintel. A crucifix is built on the outside, which was probably originally here.

Built at the beginning of the 16th century following a plague epidemic and completed in the 17th century in place of a pagan place of worship for medicine, as indicated by numerous inscriptions.