Between Obidos and Tomar, we stopped for a couple hours to admire the immense Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitoria, better known as Batalha (Battle Abbey).
1 Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitoria is surrounded by a plaza, which in turn is surrounded by sidewalk restaurants and souvenir shops. Parking places are somewhat rarer...
2 Spring flowers and gothic archtitecture
3 Soaring columns
4 Light from stained-glass windows decorates columns.
5 Wow!
6 Nave
7 Claustro Real (Royal Cloister)
8 Tourist in passageway around the cloister
9 Same tourist, same cloister, different passageway
10 Fountain
11 Ornate columns
12 Entrance to the Capelas Imperfeitas (Unfinished Chapels) -- no roof
13 Inside the Capelas Imperfeitas
14 In the Capelas Imperfeitas, Dom Duarte and his queen, Leonor of Aragon, hold hands even in death.
