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Tomar Downtown car rental - Travel Guide |
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TOMAR, 34km east of Fátima is famous for the Convento de Cristo an artistic tour de force which entwines the main military religious and imperial strands in the history of Portugal. However, it's an attractive town in its own right - especially during the Festas dos Tabuleiros in the first week of July when the place goes wild - and you should aim to spend a couple of days here if you can.
Built on a simple grid plan Tomar's old quarters preserve all their traditional charm with whitewashed terraced cottages lining narrow cobbled streets. On the central Praça da República stands an elegant seventeenth-century town hall a ring of houses of the same period and the Manueline church of São João Baptista remarkable for its octagonal belfry and elaborate doorway. Nearby, at Rua Joaquim Jacinto 73 you'll find an excellently preserved fourteenth-century Synagogue now the Museu Luso-Hebraicoa Abraham Zacuto; in 1496 Dom Manuel ordered the expulsion or conversion of all Portuguese Jews and the synagogue at Tomar was one of the few to survive.
The Convento de Cristo is set among pleasant gardens with splendid views about a quarter of an hour's walk uphill from the centre of town. Founded in 1162 by Gualdim Pais first Master of the Knights Templar, it was the headquarters of the Order. The heart of the complex remains the Charola, the temple from which the knights drew their moral conviction. It is a strange place, more suggestive of the occult than of Christianity; like almost every circular church, it is ultimately based on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, for whose protection the Knights Templar were originally founded. However, as the Moorish threat receded, the Knights became a challenge to the authority of European monarchs. In Spain this prompted a vicious witch-hunt and many of the Knights sought refuge in Portugal.
The highlight of the convent is the ornamentation of the windows on the main facade of its Chapter House, where maritime motifs form a memorial to the sailors who established the Portuguese empire. Later João III (1521-57) transformed the convent into a thoroughgoing monastic community, adding dormitories, kitchens and no fewer than four cloisters. The adjoining two-tiered Great Cloisters comprise one of the purest examples of the Renaissance style in Portugal. |
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