By tourist on March 1, 2015
Alcobaça, Heritage, Order of Cister, Uncategorized
Inês de Castro, 1325 – 7 January 1355 was a Galician noblewoman born of a Portuguese mother. She is best known as lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Peter I of Portugal. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Peter I, which was forbidden by his father King Afonso IV, her murder at the orders of Afonso, Peter’s bloody […]
By tourist on March 1, 2015
Alcobaça, Order of Cister
Implemented in Portugal since the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order accompanied the formation of the territory and the political statement of the first dynasty. Gradually extending their monasteries in central and northern regions, thanks to the special royal protection, the white monks contributed decisively to the colonization and development of the vast areas occupied applying […]
By tourist on March 1, 2015
Order of Cister
The Order was established in Portugal for the first time in Tarouca in 1144, former Benedictine monastery. All Cistercian monasteries of the twelfth century changed their observance, only Alcobaça was founded again. During the twelfth century the most important foundations and numerous are the nuns: Lorvão, Cells, Arouca and St. Benedict of Castris, […]
By tourist on March 1, 2015
Alcobaça, Order of Cister
Afonso Henriques made history because it had a well defined objective, promised Bernard of Clairvaux who conquered Santarém to the Moors, send to build a monastery for the Cistercian Order in Portugal, which has thus fulfilled. Date back long before that, however, the initiatives of King Afonso Henriques, to promote the defense of the realm, […]
By tourist on February 28, 2015
Alcobaça, Order of Cister, Slider
In no other country in Europe to Cistercian exerted so undeniable and lasting influence in Portugal. Tarouca and Lafões are among the first Cistercian monasteries in Portugal. Followed them Santa Maria de Alcobaça, which soon became the most important Cistercian monastery in our territory and one of the greatest in Europe. Then the monks held a […]