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BATALHA, PORTUGAL

I was in Batalha in a trip that I did with my parents and my brother around portugal. The Cathedral is really nice, but I remember and anecdote, how silence was the Cathedral and the only noise that you can listened was the cash registrer chargering to get in.

Batalha is a Portuguese town located in the District of Leiria, Pinhal Litoral subregion, Centre region, with 7,500 inhabitants.

It is the see of the municipality of the same name with 103.56 kmĀ² of area and 15,002 inhabitants (2001), subdivided into 4 parishes (freguesias). The municipality is limited to the North and West by the municipality of Leiria, to the East by Vila Nova de OurĆ©m, to the Southeast by Alcanena and to the Southwest by Porto de MĆ³s.

The town was founded by King D. JoĆ£o I of Portugal, jointly with the Monastery of Santa Maria da VitĆ³ria na Batalha, to pay homage to the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota (August 14, 1385) that put an end to the 1383-1385 crisis.


April 2002

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