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Óbidos - Nazaré - Alcobaça - Batalha
Full Day (8 hours) Starting from 360 €
The Tour Obidos is great for those interested in seeing a very old fortified city. For its excellent location by the sea and as the arms of the lagoon reached the hill, hese lands since there were always inhabited, as confirmed by the Lower Paleolithic season Outeiro of builds. Here it formed a Celtiberian castro, facing west.
It is known that the Phoenicians traded here, and today more properly the Romans settled here and it is likely that the south tower of the Torch, has had its origin in a watchtower tower of Roman construction, such as advanced post of the city of Eburobrittium , large urban metropolis found and archaeological work phase.
On 11 January 1148, the first king, Afonso Henriques, supported by Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, Obidos took to the Arabs, after the siege of the previous November. The Cruise of Memory is a simple monument of the time, later restored. Obidos belonged to the defensive pentagon (the five castles), the center of the kingdom, created by the Templars.
Nazaré is a picturesque fishing village, known for traditions and its long beach, where fishermen still stretch their redes.Lembramos the giant wave surfed in January 2013 by Hawaiian Garrett McNamara in Nazaré, Portugal. If you do not remember, watch the video below. It's really scary to see the power of a wave of 90 feet (about 27 meters) .Unfortunately this drop, it had everything to beat their own world record of Hawaiian, has been contested by big riders. The controversy raised is the fact that the wave does not break. Beating the world record or not, Garrett has already secured its place in the Billabong XXL 2013 an Oscar for the biggest waves ever surfed.
Then we will visit the Monastery of Batalha - a true masterpiece of Gothic architecture in Portugal. And the great Monastery of Alcobaça, a magnificent medieval complex that incorporates a church of the twelfth century. In Alcobaça you can visit a small and very quiet town located in one of the best wine regions of Portugal.
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