Convento de Cristo - Tomar

[Via Lusitana]

Camino Friends,

It is now possible to get a Caminho de Santiago stamp in your credential at the Convento de Cristo in Tomar.

And believe me it is worth the visit!!

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/265

Bom Caminho
Helena

 

[peregrina2000]

Very nice carimbo! (I am pretty sure that's the Portuguese equivalent of "sello." )

For those peregrinos who enjoy visiting historic sites along their Caminos, I would add that Tomar is one of the highlights on the Lisbon-Porto segment. The convent, up above the town, is a wonderful place to visit, and you can see some of the ornate manueline architecture in Helena's link.

And there are other great historic places as well on the camino south of Porto -- Coimbra is the obvious one, with its ancient university, cathedral and old town, but there's also Conimbriga's Roman ruins (about a km or two off the route and well worth a visit), the Roman villa at Rabacal, the ruined royal estate at Cardiga, and the gothic churches in Santarem. And probably a few more places I'm forgetting!

Laurie