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Alcobaça Monastery

Alcobaça Monastery
Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
39.5483°N, 8.9800°WOPEN YEAR-ROUND

A Cistercian monastery founded in 1153 by Portugal's first king, its church the largest in the country and among the earliest Gothic buildings on Portuguese soil — famed for the elaborately carved Gothic tombs of King Pedro I and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro.

Art & CultureAttractionsMedieval (500–1500)UNESCO World Heritage