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The current church of Santo António de Nordestinho, in the parish of Santo António de Nordestinho, was built to replace a hermitage, with the same invocation. Regarding this ancient hermitage, several documents are known. They all tell us about how small it was for the population it served, about the distance that the place of Santo António was from the parish headquarters in São Pedro and the difficulty that the inhabitants had in coming to hear mass at their respective parish.

The hermitage was once a parish church, under the invocation of Our Lady of Purification. With the construction of the current Church of Santo Espírito, according to information from Father Frutuoso at the end of the 16th century, "(...) This was the first parish, which belonged to the Purification of Our Lady and, when the church moved , they cast lots as to which saint would remain, and Saint Anthony came out.

The church of Santo António was founded in 1606. It was donated to the Capuchins. Their monastery was destroyed in the 17th century except for the church and the cloister. In 1856 the church passed into the hands of the Friars of Saint Anthony.

Church of Santo Condestável is a neo-Gothic temple, inaugurated in 1951 in honour of Nuno Álvares Pereira, St Condestavel. The relics of the saint are preserved in this church.

The church of Santo Spirito in Sassia was founded in the 8th century. Seriously damaged during the sack of Rome (1527), the church was rebuilt between 1538 and 1545, but the façade dates back to 1590, while the decoration of the apse was carried out from 1593 by Jacopo Zucchi. A new high altar was inaugurated in 1668 by Francesco Maria Febei.

São Bartolomeu is one of the oldest churches in Terceira. It is known that, in 1486, it was still a location that belonged to the parish of Santa Bárbara. According to tradition, in the year 1500, on the initiative of D. Ignês Alvares and her husband, a small hermitage was built in the place where the current church is located. It is possible that between that year and 1564 the place was elevated to at least a curate, since parish registration services began in 1564.

The Church of São Bartolomeu (Igreja de São Bartolomeu) is a Baroque church in the historic centre of Coimbra.

The primitive temple, then demolished, was rebuilt in 1584 - date inscribed on the doorway - in the primitive streets of Fonte Grande and Direita, today of Machado dos Santos. The temple also evokes Saint Luzia, as it has a chapel dedicated to this saint.

This temple, whose foundation dates back to the 19th century, is characterized by its neo-Gothic architecture and its geostrategic position located in a high place, prominent in relation to the town.

The Church of São Cristóvão is a medieval building in the quarter of Mouraria. It was one of the few buildings that survived the 1755 earthquake almost intact. The church was added to the World Monuments Watch list in 2016 due to its worrying state of preservation.