Batalha, Fatima and Tomar All-Day Tour
Porto, Portugal
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 10 hours
Pearls of the Centre: Take this Specialized Guided All-Day Tour and visit Batalha, Fatima and Tomar
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Pearls of the Centre: Take this Specialized Guided All-Day Tour and visit Batalha, Fatima and Tomar
BATALHA
The impressive monastery of Batalha is one of the best examples of the so-called Portuguese style, the Manueline. It became the first royal pantheon in Portugal. There rest King John I of Portugal, his wife Philippa of Lancaster as one of their sons, the famous Henry the Navigator.
FATIMA
The Shrine of Fatima is one of the most important landmarks in the Marian cult, drawing pilgrims from all over the world. Fatima’s history is associated to three children, who in May 13, 1917, when they were herding their sheep in Cova da Iria, witnessed the appearance of a “Lady in White”. Later the Chapel of the Apparitions and the Sanctuary of Fatima were built in Cova da Iria.
This “Lady in White” was understood by the shepherd children as the Virgin Mary. On the 13th of each month, from May to October 1917, the apparitions would be repeated. On October 13, 1917, the day of the last appearance, 70,000 pilgrims attended the so-called “Miracle of the Sun”.
TOMAR
The settlement of the Knights Templar took place very early, before the constitution of the Kingdom of Portugal in the 12th century. With the first monarch, King Afonso Henriques, the land donations made to this order will be strategic: at the forefront of the Christian reconquest.
Considered the most Templar among all places, the region of Tomar was donated to the Templars around the year 1159. Later, when the extinction of the order was declared by the Pope, Portuguese King Dinis, the sixth of Portugal, negotiated the creation of a new military and religious order – the Order of Christ – to which he transferred the assets of the Templars. Some centuries later, the human and economic resources of this order will be crucial for the outset of the Portuguese Discoveries, under the command of its Grand Master, Henry “the Navigator”.
Many other famous historic figures were linked to the Order of Christ as Pedro Alvares Cabral (the discoverer of Brazil), Vasco da Gama (the first European to reach India by sea, connecting Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route), Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese explorer), Francisco de Almeida (first viceroy of the Portuguese State of India) or Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese explorer responsible for the first circumnavigation of the Earth).
You will visit the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory (UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE) (Batalha), City and Sanctuary, Houses of the “Pastorinhos” (Lucia’s house and Francisco and Jacinta’s house) (Fatima), , Castle and Wall of Tomar (UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE), Convent of Christ (UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE), medieval Abraao Zacuto Synagogue, Saint John the Baptist Church, Saint Maria dos Olivais Church, and historic centre of Tomar, among others.
BATALHA
The impressive monastery of Batalha is one of the best examples of the so-called Portuguese style, the Manueline. It became the first royal pantheon in Portugal. There rest King John I of Portugal, his wife Philippa of Lancaster as one of their sons, the famous Henry the Navigator.
FATIMA
The Shrine of Fatima is one of the most important landmarks in the Marian cult, drawing pilgrims from all over the world. Fatima’s history is associated to three children, who in May 13, 1917, when they were herding their sheep in Cova da Iria, witnessed the appearance of a “Lady in White”. Later the Chapel of the Apparitions and the Sanctuary of Fatima were built in Cova da Iria.
This “Lady in White” was understood by the shepherd children as the Virgin Mary. On the 13th of each month, from May to October 1917, the apparitions would be repeated. On October 13, 1917, the day of the last appearance, 70,000 pilgrims attended the so-called “Miracle of the Sun”.
TOMAR
The settlement of the Knights Templar took place very early, before the constitution of the Kingdom of Portugal in the 12th century. With the first monarch, King Afonso Henriques, the land donations made to this order will be strategic: at the forefront of the Christian reconquest.
Considered the most Templar among all places, the region of Tomar was donated to the Templars around the year 1159. Later, when the extinction of the order was declared by the Pope, Portuguese King Dinis, the sixth of Portugal, negotiated the creation of a new military and religious order – the Order of Christ – to which he transferred the assets of the Templars. Some centuries later, the human and economic resources of this order will be crucial for the outset of the Portuguese Discoveries, under the command of its Grand Master, Henry “the Navigator”.
Many other famous historic figures were linked to the Order of Christ as Pedro Alvares Cabral (the discoverer of Brazil), Vasco da Gama (the first European to reach India by sea, connecting Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route), Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese explorer), Francisco de Almeida (first viceroy of the Portuguese State of India) or Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese explorer responsible for the first circumnavigation of the Earth).
You will visit the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory (UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE) (Batalha), City and Sanctuary, Houses of the “Pastorinhos” (Lucia’s house and Francisco and Jacinta’s house) (Fatima), , Castle and Wall of Tomar (UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE), Convent of Christ (UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE), medieval Abraao Zacuto Synagogue, Saint John the Baptist Church, Saint Maria dos Olivais Church, and historic centre of Tomar, among others.
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