Town of Portugal of 7,000 inhabitants, located in the region of Coastal Beira (Leiria) the Battle: the greatest monument and the masterpiece of the gothic architecture of Portugal, were constructed in commemoration of the feat of arms in that, the 15 of August of 1,385, in Aljubarrota (to 15 km to the Southwest), the gunner Nuno Alvares defeated the Castilian army and affirmed therefore the independence of his country within the Iberian world; from its granite ship, the monument heightens one of the beautiful perspective of the highway from Lisbon to Porto. It is also, by more of a title, a surprising accomplishment, although only outside by the maze of bell pinnacles, gabletes and of his crown, that evokes the catedralesinglesas. And it is not to be strange, because one of his first architects, Ourique Teacher, came from Canterbury; in addition, Juan I the Founder (Joao: 1.385-1.433) had contracted marriage with a Lancáster. Begun 1.388, the church was trusted to the English construction foreman 1.402. The gothic construction took a century: in 1.495, after fifteen years of abandonment, the works were resumed by Manuel I; to his death (1.521), definitively they were interrupted, as they attest the “inacabadas chapels”. But the closings of the building recovered partly at the end of century XVIII as a result of the destructions caused by the land tremors of 1.755. On the empty esplanade, where only yergue the statue (modern, 1,966) of Nuno Alvares, opens the gigantic porches of the gothic facade, a species of “scenery raised in front of the church”. To the right, entering the long ship (80 m.de length, 32 of width and 32 of height), the chapel of the Founder, considered, by the decoration of the noses, like one of jewels of the monastery; in center, sarcófago crowned by the statues of Juan I and his wife Doña Filipa, surrounded by the tombs (of end of century XV) of the inclita geraçao (the generation illustrates), as it is known, the one of Enrique the Navigator, made while it lived and, without a doubt, in its presence. To the bottom of the ship, the choir is illuminated by manuelinos vitrales; to left, a door gives access (paying entered) claustro real (50 m.por 55), where the styles gothic (noses) and manuelino are combined (pierced debris, of marble, made one hundred years later); this claustro, dominated by the elegant bell tower of the Cigueña, can be considered like one of most beautiful of the world by the atmosphere of Eastern exuberance that of him emanates. Their galleries communicate the room To capitulate, notable by the boldness of their vault, that lodges the tombs of two unknown soldiers (guarded by two sentries); in the angle NOT of the bell tower, the washbasin inspired by the one of Alcobaça, translates, by the poetry of the batteries and the reasons that present/display the large windows, the taste of the Portuguese sovereigns of the Renaissance inasmuch as it evoked East to them. Behind the washbasin, a step leads to claustro pointed, very sober, from where it is arrived at capelas imperfeitas (inacabadas chapels, and not “imperfect”) which they fit a choir arranged to opened sky, to which it is acceded crossing the monumental porch, “immense beehive with ivory alveoli”, of 15 m.de height, without a doubt, by its decoration “to the Hindu”, the architectonic accomplishment to more espeetacular of Sunday Manuel. Main festejos: Towards the 15 of August, during three days, commemoration of the battle of Aljubarrota: festival folkloric, rural fair and rustic craftswoman, romería.