Monastery of Batalha and the statue of Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, general and saint.
View of that same monastery at night from our balcony.
Monastery of Batalha is really beautiful. Here are a few details and close-ups of its architecture:
- Inner courtyard
- Fountain
- Manueline doorway
- Detail of the front entrance decoration
- Tomb of Henry the Navigator
- "Unfinished Chapels" - no ceiling, and it is raining
Moving on to Alcobaça now. It also has a monastery, but very different. This is the main entrance.
Inside the monastery.
Inner courtyard.
Sundial.
The monks ate well. Part of the river is diverted through the kitchen, to deliver wild fish right to the monks' table.
However, on the way to refectory, monks had to enter through this door; those too fat to pass through were forced to fast...
> Up North
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