Visit Tomar Convento de Cristo with a P. Guide+ Hiking around Tomar + Dinner

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👉👉 Tomar Convento de Cristo + Hiking around Tomar

On popular demand I am repeating this event since we had great time last time that ended up having a lovely dinner in a traditional Tomar Resturant in old town. Keep in mind that we will have dinner post hiking.

IMPORTANT: Covering shoulders and knees are mandatory to enter the church apart from good walking shoes and hiking gears for the hike. Please bring along your rain jacket.

IMPORTANT: There will be a professional guide who will give us a two hours tour of the Tomar Convento de Cristo. The cost of an individual will depend on how many we show up. But I think the estimated cost would be from 8 to 12 euros per person. If we are not enough, then our local guide ( friend of mine) will be happy to show us around.

👉👉Tomar city : Former seat of the Order of the Knights Templar, Tomar is a city of great charm for its artistic and cultural wealth, whose greatest expression is in the Convent of Christ, one of the chief works of the Portuguese Renaissance.

Whatever your reason for visiting the city, climbing up to the Templar castle and discovering the monumental work of the Convent of Christ is a must. The Charola (Rotunda) is the oldest part. This Templar chapel was built in the 12th century, like the castle, which was at the time the Kingdom’s most up-to-date and advanced military set-up, inspired by the fortifications of the Holy Land. It was converted into a Chancel during the restoration works ordered by King Manuel I in the 16th century, when the complex gained the architectural splendour, kept intact to this day, which earned it World Heritage Site status.
For more : https://www.visitportugal.com/en/node/73772
Price: It's Sunday: free for local and residence holder.
Otherwise it's 6 euro entrance fee.

IMPORTANT: Please bring your residency papers or cards.

👉👉 Tomar Convento de Cristo: Tomar's stand out crowd-pleaser is the magnificent Convent of Christ, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. Founded in the 12th century by the Grand Master of the Templars, this extraordinary church with its graceful cloisters and impressive castle is one of the most dazzling and extensive of Portugal's religious sites.

The powerful and enigmatic monk-knights were rewarded for their ferocity on the battlefield with a castle, built in 1160 within sturdy walls on a wooded hilltop near the River Nabão.
Read more : http://www.conventocristo.gov.pt/en/index.php?s=white&pid=29&identificador=ct11_pt

🏡🏡 We will meet at 9h15 Santa Apolónia train station entrance.

IMPORTANT: If you need to get tickets then please be at the train station around 9h to 9h15.

We will take regional train 9h45 train to Tomar and return to Lisbon the regional train to Lisbon at 20h11. The same train leaves from Lisboa Oriente at 9h53.

Price for the train ticket 10.85 each way. Make sure to check at the ticket counter if you have Navegante cards pass. It might be little bit cheaper.

For more details: https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en

Weather forecast: https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/prev.localidade.hora/index.jsp#Lisboa&Sintra

🚾AVAILABILITY OF TOILETS en route: plenty of places along our way.

🍕🌯🍌BRING PACKED LUNCH and 2 litters of water. We'll have lunch
IMPORTANT: Most of the part of the trail has no tree, Please BRING WIND JACKET, SUN CAP, sunscreen cream for the current weather conditions. Cash may be useful to have.

🚩 🚩 🚩Please be on time. If you miss the train you will miss the hike. Don't pursue if you miss the train or bus.

👉👉 The hike will be cancel incase of rain or storm.
See you then,
Organiser
Anjo