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Palácio dos Condes da Anadia
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Largo Conde de Anadia
3530-129, Mangualde
17th century palace, built by Miguel Pais Amaral. It features a façade cut by wide pilasters and two rows of windows with lintels decorated with "Rocaille" style motifs. It has an emblazoned door and, above, a balcony with stone balusters that serve as protection for the main floor door. The south façade has a double veranda with round arches and an original staircase. Also noteworthy is the chapel invoking Saint Bernard.
Orca dos Padrões
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Cunha Baixa
3530-051, Cunha Baixa
This megalithic monument, recovered at the end of the 1990s, consists of an elongated polygonal chamber, tending to be rectangular, with nine pillars and a medium corridor. It is assumed that it had a first phase of funerary occupation in the transition from the 4th to the 3rd century BC.
Biblioteca Municipal Doutor Alexandre Alves
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Rua José Maria Almeida, 1
3530-091, Mangualde
This Library offers around 20,000 documents, including monographs, periodicals editions and audiovisual publications. It also has a bar, a children's room, an adult room, an exhibition room and an auditorium with capacity for 187 seats.
Cine-Teatro Paraíso
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Rua da Infantaria, 15
2300-573, Tomar
Cinetheater with a room with a "U" plan with a capacity of 392 seats. It was in 1855 that the construction of the Teatro Nabantino began, in the place where, later, the Cineteatro Paraíso would appear, inaugurated in 1924.
Arco das Freiras
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Rua de Santa Iria
2300, Tomar
Arch from the 16th century, serving as a passageway over a public road, establishing communication between two convent buildings.
Moinhos e Lagares d'El-Rei
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Rua de João Carlos Everard
2300-561, Tomar
Set of buildings on the right bank of the Nabão River, on a platform built on an artificial channel that diverts the waters of the Nabão River. Mills and hydraulic presses operated there, and there are projects to transform the space into a center for science and industrial archeology.
Percurso Centro Histórico - Colina do Castelo de Tomar
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Calçada de São Tiago
2300, Tomar
The Hill of Castelo de Tomar has enough attractions to attract any visitor, including the Convent of Christ, a world heritage site, and a jewel of Manueline art. The Castle and its walls are worth a close visit, as is the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, from the 16th century and one of the last works by the architect João Castilho. Enveloping the hill area, the National Forest of Sete Montes is the heart of the city and a favorite leisure spot for the people of Tomar. Vast forests that hide secrets and places of great beauty, especially the …
Igreja de São João Baptista
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Rua de São João, 135
2300-550, Tomar
The foundation date of this church is uncertain, but it is known that it was rebuilt at the end of the 15th century by Dom Manuel I and completed around 1510. It has three naves defined by pointed arches and is flanked by a bell tower. It is decorated with Manueline motifs and, inside, the pulpit and the vault of the chancel stand out. It was classified as a National Monument in 1910.
Igreja de Santa Maria dos Olivais
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Rua Aquiles de Mota Lima
2300-455, Tomar
Temple from the 13th century. It appears to have been part of a Convent of Benedicts, still in the period when the town was called Nabância. It was rebuilt by D. Gualdim Pais, in 1160, who made it the pantheon of the Templars in Portugal. Its structure presents transition elements from the Romanesque to the Gothic style, the latter being predominant. A large rose window stands out on the façade, surmounting the portico with four archivolts. Over the rose window you can see the mark of the Knights Templar, the Signum Salomonis. In the sacristy, with a 16th century vault, …
Centro Histórico de Tomar
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Rua Pé da Costa de Baixo
2300, Tomar
City closely linked to the Templars and the Order of Christ. When they arrived to Portugal, they spread castles across different domains, but Tomar was the center of the territory. After the castle, they built the "Charola" of Convento de Cristo, considered the most beautiful and well-preserved religious building of the Templars in Europe. Bathed by the River Nabão, Tomar has one of the historic centers in Portugal with the highest number of monuments, with emphasis on the churches of São João Baptista and Santa Maria dos Olivais and the Old Synagogue.