Batalha, Alcobaça, Óbidos
SKU: 1DTBAO
340,00 €Price
1 Day tour - arround 8 hours Starting in Batalha , visiting Alcobaça and Óbidos.
Tour description
- The tour starts in Lisbon, where we drive to Batalha to visit the Sta Maria da Vitória monastery. Then we go to Alcobaça to visit our second and beautiful monastery. After that we head to Óbidos a medieval vilage. Finaly we return to your Hotel or any other destination you prefer.
- This circuit is possible to include the visit to Nazaré.
- Since this is a personalized tour everything can be ajusted according to costumer will or interests
Mafra National Palace and Convent
- Sta Maria da Vitória (Batalha > Battle) Monastery is an amazing breath taking Manuelin Gothic style building
- It worth the visit specially the unfinished chapels where we can experience the absolute power of being inside a sculptural building and still enjoy a clear and blues sky on top of our heads, since this part of the building has no ceiling
- This monastery was built on the location of one of the most important battles that opposed Portuguese and Spanish armies. The battle of Aljubarrota (the closest village to the battlefield at that time) has it is known is recorded on fire in all Portuguese memory, since the Portuguese army won the battle with a great strategy, determination , the help of British and god, some say. The Portuguese troops were 1/3 of the Spanish ones, that’s the reason many people believed that only a miracle could allow this to happen.
Alcobaça Monastery
- Alcobaça Monastery it's an amazing, magical building with the knight tales feeling while visiting it.
- The Kitchen where the small river still pass inside, the refectory and the sleeping chamber are absolutely amazing, beautiful and architecturaly poetic.
- In the Chirch you can find Peter and Inês tumbs. King Peter the 1st, married Inês, some years after she was killed, by orders of Petrer's Father. This is a very known romantic story in Portugal
Óbidos
- Óbidos is another MG, Must Go place in Portugal.
- It's a medieval village all surrounded by walls, very well preserved and a trully pleasure to walk around the walls or just get lost on the narrow streets and breathe that medieval ambiance.
- I recomend to taste the "kind of cherry" (Ginja in Portuguese) Liquor on a chocolate cup and the ready made hot bread with meat stuff on it.