Batalha Monastery

It commemorates the victory, on 15 August 1385, of the Portuguese troops, commanded by the young Nuno Alvares Pereira, over the invading Spaniards in Aljubarrota. John I, the Portuguese king, had promised to build a monastery if he was granted victory.The work began in 1388. One highlight: the façade, equipped with beautiful gothic arches and pinnacles; inside, where it excels its grandeur and the height of his three ships, the so-called Founders Chapel, surmounted by a dome of great beauty and adorned with polychrome stained glass, the "capelas imperfect", ie unfinished, lacking cover, and known