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The tour starts in Alcobaça, city whose name is said to have derived from the junction the names of the rivers Alcoa and Baça. Here we find the Monastery of Santa Maria de Alcobaça, recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO in the year of 1989, and elected as one of the Portuguese national wonders. The Monastery of Alcobaça is the first gothic monument builted in Portugal, and one of the best preserved monuments of Cistercian architecture. In Alcobaça you can taste the delicious Alcobaça Cherry Liqueur, a product produced exclusively by artisanal processes and starting of the best cherries in the west zone.
Then we follow to Batalha, were we are going to visit the Monastery da Batalha. This monument was recognized as World Heritage of Humanity in 1987 and is considered one of the Portuguese national wonders. Builted by King D. João I, as thanks to the Virgin for the victory of the Battle of Aljubarrota, this monument is endowed with various styles of construction, such as the late Gothic and Manueline styles.
In the afternoon we go to Fátima, where in 1917 the Virgin of the Rosary appeared to three shepherd children in a place called Cova da Iria. Here, is located in one of the most emblematic places of Catholic cult of the world. Have already been visited by three popes, the Pope John Paul II had attributed to the Virgin of the Rosary of Fátima the miracle of having survived the attack that was targeted in the S. Peter Plazza on May 13, 1981, offering to the image of Our Lady of Fátima the bullet that almost killed him, which is embedded in its crown.
