It is one of the biggest and most beautiful Monuments from the Gothic architecture in Portugal and the first from Manueline art in the 16th century. Batalha Monastery is also the most outstanding symbol from the Avis dynasty. The monastery was built by orders of D. João I as a consequence from a promise he made to the Virgin Mary in order to win the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385. The construction started the next year under the supervision of the Portuguese architect Afonso Domingues. In this initial phase the results produced were the majority of the church structures and …

16th century convent which preserves the two-storey cloister rectangular plant. The Church, designed by Afonso Álvares, is a single nave covered with tiles. Are to point out a burial headstone and a 16th century sculpture representing St. Bacchus.

Its initial use was as a feminine Monastery under the Cistercian rule and it is where Dona Mafalda tomb is placed. IT has a roman classicist style with baroque features by the gold carving.

The Celas Monastery is a construction of sober character, showing the influence of several architectonical styles. At the church are worthy of notice the manueline arched roof, a 17th century glazed tiles panelling and several portals and arches with renaissant and manueline characteristics. The cloisters’ galleries present pictures representing memorable events at the chapiters.

The primitive moth conventual building nothing remains due to various transformations that was targeted. The set of buildings is composed by the Church and the cloister, the result of a 17th-century reform. The cloister features Doric columns based directly on the floor, forming seven spans in each ward.

This is a Cistercian Abbey in which is possible to observe several arquitectonic elements from the Romanic period, namely, the ornate capitals with isomorphic motifs, the opening with small columns and the worked rose window.

The primitive monastery, called Monastery of São Salvador de Grijó, was founded in 922 in the place of Muraceses. It was only in the year 1112 that it was moved to its current location. In 1770 the convent was extinguished, passing its assets to the Convent of Mafra. Of note are the gilded carvings and the 18th century tiles in the chancel, as well as the pipe organ, from the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century. Also noteworthy is the tomb of D. Rodrigo Sanches, classified as a National Monument.