Seven centuries have passed since the Portuguese kings initiated the custom to give, like nuptial singular ósculo, the villa of Obidos to their queens. Its aspect has not been able to change much since Dionis and Isabel de Aragón initiated this custom in 1282. Small city, surrounded of high medieval walls, distributes throughout paved streets and houses of shining blue color with yellow borders. Throughout, lofty stairs are offered to raise the walls, from where it descries to a punteado landscape of vineyards and wind mills.
Town of Portugal of about 47,000 inhabitants, located in the region of Estremadoura (Leiria) Totally fitted by a high almenada wall, the beautiful and white city can boast itself to be one of most flowery and graceful of Portugal. Old strategic location and seaport, was also, in history, the infantado one of the queens (1.228-1.833). Many on which they lived there. It is forced to cross it on foot, even though the circulation of cars is allowed. Transposing the door of passage in zigzag, it is promoted to the wall of the West: the round way is interrupted in the North end, where part of the castle (century XII-XVI) is occupied by an inn whose dining room is the old room of the guards. Towards the sea, the lake is contemplated that formed after the enarenamiento of the Renaissance port. In the side This, the jewel of the town is constituted by the clusters of bougainvilleas and the plastering in lapis lazuli and ocher of the angles and the windows of the houses, in which the vine arbors “connect the ceilings to each other”. From the castle, by the small paved streets where the craftsmen expose, under the threshold of the doors, their works of tapestry, are arrived at praca Santa Maria dominated by a passage in terrace. On the balcony, the top of picota, is adorned by a fishing network; at the end of century XV, the body of the son of queen Leonor, who had the infantado city in, it was transported after to have drowned in the Edge, in a fisherman network. It faces, the Renaissance church, with remarkable tiles, lodges an attributed funeral monument to one of the teachers of the school of Coimbra. Alongside, the museum of the Gulbenkian foundation exposes paintings of Josefa de Obidos, among others, and memories of the Napoleonic wars: Masséna occupied, in effect, twice the city during the campaign of 1.810-1.811. More under the seat, it is necessary to stop in front of the baroque porch of the Mercy. Artisan products: Weaves and tapestry (public exhibitions near the castle).