Convento de Cristo, Tomar, Portugal
The first part of the post on Convent of Christ, Tomar I described partly what to see in interiors of this monastery. This post continues with some more details on the cloisters in Convento de Cristo, Tomar. There are a total of 8 cloisters in Convento de Cristo. I roamed through several of them. The winding staircases took us to different cloisters all varying in sizes and shapes.
The Hostelry cloister was designed to house travelers temporarily. They were pilgrims, clergymen, nobles. Visitors belonging to higher strata of society were lodged in upper floor. Servant’s quarter was on ground floor.
Cloister of John III is magnificent, two-storey cloister. It connects the dormitory of the monks to the church. The storeys are connected to each other by four elegant helicoidal stairways, located at each corner of the cloisters.
In the cloister of cemetery is the tomb of Diogo da Gama, brother of navigator Vasco da Gama.
The dormitory where the monks lived and Dinning room of Knights Templars with marble table in Convento de Cristo Tomar – Portugal.
UNESCO says…
Tomar was declared a World Heritage Site because:
“Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar (transferred in 1344 to the Knights of the Order of Christ) came to symbolize just the opposite during the Manueline period – the opening up of Portugal to other civilizations.”
If you are anywhere near it would be worthwhile to spend a couple of hours touring this Convento de Cristo Tomar. We are glad we included this in our itinerary. The next destination was Coimbra.
Road to Coimbra from Tomar.
Awesome description along with wonderful pictures of Monastery of Tomar, Portugal! Many of your readers whose interest lies in knowing about the world history will enjoy reading your post. I too love visiting historical places and I wish to see this place soon. Thanks for sharing the post with us.
Beautiful!
Beautiful Pictures 🙂
Lovely pictures with informative write up Indrni ji . European architect is very different to Indian or Mughal .
Great post with explicit coverage.
Monastery is beautiful. The road to coimbra looks nice, guess you had fun drive,
The last picture is so stunning.
A great post, dear 🙂
This place looks leavenly. Would love to go here one day.
Marvellous is the word! Hope I get to see this architectural marvel sometime soon.
Thanks for sharing.
Best, Shashi.
Awesome! I would love to be here one day! 🙂
beautiful pictures…
Lovely as always!
Great captures and worth examined with the architecture and pretty neat ambiance! The road to Coimbra quite invites… Looking forward to read about.
Amazing views. 🙂
Awesome 🙂
Nice captures. I would love to check out the dormitory of the Knights. 😀
Love the picture of the blue highway fence 🙂 Beautiful all!
Good article with beautiful pics.
Amazing Pictures of the Monastery.. An interesting Post, Indrani!
Amazing pictures,the high way is beautiful
Portuguese architecture is beautiful, I hope that this year I will see it in person. Greetings from Poland.
Magnificent place to visit!
Such gorgeous shots.
So beautiful, Nice to read.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post
Very nicely narrated. Portuguese architecture. Similar architecture, we get to see in Goa also I guess.
a beautiful building.
What an impressive building – The architecture is amazing.
Nice shot of the highway and it’s guardrail fencing. I like the blue posts in the middle.
Beautiful monastery! The only ones I’ve seen were not so fancy.
Your work is so edifying
An incredible place and incredible capture as always, Indrani!! Fascinating!! I do hope your new year is off to a great start and I do look forward to your posts — as always!!
Beautiful photography and love photo of the blue highway fence ~
Wishing you a Happy Week ~ ^_^
all those arches! wow!