He is notably the builder of Alcobaça Monastery, to which he called the Cistercian Order of his uncle Bernard of Clairvaux of Burgundy.

A few kilometers to the north of Alcobaça is located the Monastery of Batalha, another wondrous gothic building constructed in memory of a different important battle, that of Aljubarrota.

To the west of Alcobaça is the well-known former fishing village of Nazaré, now a town.

A few kilometers to the north of Alcobaça is another wondrous building constructed in memory of a different important battle, that of Aljubarrota in 1385, when Dom João I defeated the Castilians and ensuring two hundred years of independence from the Castilian invaders.

To the west of Alcobaça is the well-known fishing village of Nazaré.

Alcobaça is twinned with:

* The Cistercian convent is completed in Alcobaça, Portugal.

The Whale Coast includes the municipalities of Alcobaça, Caravelas, Nova Viçosa and Mucuri and its main attraction is the Abrolhos Marine National Park.

This has never been proven, but what is known is that Peter did have Inês ' body removed from her resting place in Coimbra and taken to Alcobaça where her body was laid to rest in the monastery.

She is buried at the Monastery of Alcobaça, Alcobaça.

The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build there a church to celebrate the Conquest of Santarém, to the Moors, in 1147.

Other medium sized family companies specialized in textiles ( for instance those located in the city of Covilhã and the northwest ), ceramics, porcelain, glass and crystal ( like those of Alcobaça, Caldas da Raínha and Marinha Grande ), engineered wood ( like SONAE near Porto ), canned fish ( like those of Algarve and the northwest ), fishing, food and beverages ( alcoholic beverages, from liqueurs like Licor Beirão and Ginjinha, to beer like Sagres, were produced across the entire country, but Port Wine was one of its most reputed and exported alcoholic beverages ), tourism ( well established in Estoril / Cascais / Sintra and growing as an international attraction in the Algarve since the 1960s ) and in agriculture ( like the ones scattered around the Alentejo-known as the breadbasket of Portugal ) completed the panorama of the national economy by the early 1970s.

As the main city in this community, the area of influence of Leiria spreads over the cities of Marinha Grande, Ourém, Alcobaça, Fátima, Pombal as well the municipalities / town seats of Batalha, Porto de Mós and Nazaré located nearby.

The A8 ( also known as Auto-estrada do Oeste and as IC1 ) goes south to Lisbon, Loures, Torres Vedras, and Bombarral and north to Leiria, Marinha Grande, Alcobaça, and Nazaré.

o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.

Façade of the Alcobaça Monastery.

Gothic fountain house and renaissance water basin in the cloister of the Alcobaça Monastery.

Square in Alcobaça.

The church later evolved into the Monastery of Alcobaça, one of the most magnificent gothic monuments in the country.

The monarchy continued to endow the Monastery of Alcobaça with further construction and 60 years later King Dinis built the main cloister but it was only in 1252 that the Monastery was inaugurated within the church.

As Sancho was in weak health and had no means of resisting Papal pressure, he made full submission ( 1210 ); and after bestowing large estates on his sons and daughters, he retired into the monastery of Alcobaça, where he died in March 1211.

* Our Lady of Alcobaça, Alcobaça, Portugal.

EN 8 ( N8 ) crosses the municipality from north to south, connecting to Alcobaça and Leiria to the north and Óbidos, Bombarral, Torres Vedras, and Loures to the south.

EN 360 ( N360 ) crosses the municipality southwest to northeast, connecting to Alcobaça.

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