World Heritage Site and a Seaside town in Portugal

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Nazare to Alcobaca to Cascais
World Heritage Site and a Seaside town in Portugal

We visited Alcobaca after we left Nazare. The Monastery of Alcobaca is an impressive monument classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1989. Its construction started in 1153 and was home of the Cistercian monks. This 220 meter long monument is Portugal's largest church. Among those buried here are the tragic lovers King Pedro and his murdered mistress Ines de Castro, whose tombs face each other across the transept of the abbey church. Ines' death was ordered by Pedro's father. Touring the monastery was quite interesting, in the vast kitchen a whole oxen could be roasted on a spit inside the fireplace and a specially diverted stream provided a constant water supply.
The municipal market was worth a stop. It included lots of fruits, veggies, live chickens, and fish, fish, fish.
We thought Cascais on the beach would be a great place to hold-up as we visited Lisbon. However, we discovered it was a bus ride, and a train ride away. So after one night, we drove closed to another campground with bus service to the city of Lisbon.

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Photos

he ceramic oven
Thye would cook a whole bull in this

Comments

[joan Roolf]

One impressive monastery.
That is quite a monastery! Some of the most dramatic human stories can be learned if you take enough time to find them. That story about his father ordering her death is one of them.