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Portugal photos - Alcobaça Monastery is one of the unique monuments you can see in the full day tour of Fatima.
ALCOBAÇA
Alcobaça Monastery
Portugal images - The frontside of Alcobaca Monastery in Portugal dates from the 17th century.
Alcobaça Monastery: the main entrance
Alcobaça Monastery: the 12th century church
Portugal pictures - Alcobaça church is the longest in Portugal, 100 meters long
These cloisters are something to be admired, but you have to ask a private tour of Fatima, because regular Fatima tours don't take you here.
These bell-towers are a miracle of construction, they have no other support but the walls.
Although the façade was restored in the 17th century, there stands the gothic doorway leading to the church.
In this room there are statues of all the kings of Portugal, from the 12th century untill the 18th century.
These rooms were used by the monks as the dinning-room, dormitories, cellars, etc,
The Cistercians, an austere order at the beginning, made out of Alcobaça, the biggest gluttony temple in Europe.
This was used by 999 monks and there were 999 wine barrels.
This is a very ancient Monastery, where we return to medieval shade.
This is one of the most pure gothic churches in Portugal. Portugal photos - Alcobaça Monastery dates from the 12th century and is a symbol of Cistercian Gothic in Portugal.
The tomb of king Peter, the cruel, lies in the transept of Alcobaça church. You can see this in Fatima tour.
This was built during the reconquest period, when sometimes life was not bright but dark, with a light only at the end of the tunnel.
Cistercian monks where austere, they could not talk and used to live in the shadow.
The tomb of king Peter, is face to face with the one of his love affair, Ines de Castro.
At the top of the façade, stands Our Lady of Alcobaca, to whom the temple is dedicated.
The monks were artists and they made many statues of kings, saints, doctors of the church.
Our Lady ofAlcobaça
Alcobaça Monastery: the façade.
Alcobaça Monastery: the 12th century church
Alcobaça Monastery: the king's hall.
Alcobaça Monastery: the adjacent rooms of the cloister.
Alcobaça Monastery: the galleries of the cloister with its fine gothic corridors.
Alcobaça Monastery: in the transept, the tombs of king Peter and Ines
Alcobaça monastery: statues made by the monks
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