Batalha

Batalha Monasery of Santa Maria da Vitoria and Alcobaca Monastery of Santa Maria de Alcobaça 
  
From Obidos, we took a day trip to two beautiful monasteries, one at Batalha and the other at Alcabaca.  Once again, they are both UNESCO World Heritage sites, due to their artistic and historical importance. 

  

The Batalha Monastery, of Santa Maria da Vitoria, 1386-1517 is a Dominican Convent.

Sculptures at the entrance portal of the main church.

Beautiful cloisters in the Manueline architectural style.

Amazing Gothic interior.

The octagonal Unfinished Chapels.

Renaissance water basin.




The Alcobaca Monastery 1153, is another medieval Roman Catholic Monastery in the town of Alcobaca. It is the Cistercian Order and was the first Gothic building in Portugal.  

Enter here!

View of Alcobaca  from the  front of the Monastery.

The cloisters.

Tomb of Ines de Casto.