Alcobaça

For other places with the same name, see Alcobaça (disambiguation).

Alcobaça Monastery

Alcobaça is a small city in western Portugal.

Get in

By car

The main Lisbon-Porto route is A/1.

By train

Linha do Oeste line (Lisbon-Figueira da Foz) via Leiria. Or by bus, check rede expressos.

Get around

Map of Alcobaça

See

• 🌍 Alcobaça Monastery. listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (updated Apr 2018)
• 🌍 Batalha Monastery. few kilometres north (updated Apr 2018)
• 🌍 Wine Museum, Rua do Olival Fechado, ☎ [phone]. Tu-Su, 11AM-3PM. 

Do

Buy

Eat

antonio padreiro, nearby the main square

Drink

Sleep

• 🌍 Challet Fonte Nova, Rua da Fonte Nova, n.8, ☎ [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. 
• 🌍 Hotel Santa Maria, R. Dr. Francisco Zagalo, 20/22, ☎ [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. A three star hotel. 

Go next

• Fátima (Sanctuary of Our Lady) – Place of the worldwide famous Marian apparitions.
• Batalha – has a nice monastery.
• Caldas da Rainha – charming, unassuming city to experience authentic daily Portuguese life
• Leiria – with its famous castle.
• Nazaré – a picture-postcard beach town, lately noted for its surfing
• Óbidos – walled hilltop medieval town
• Peniche – beaches and water sports, access to the Berlengas archipelago
• Pinhal de Leira, pinewood forest.
• São Martinho do Porto – popular beach on a bay
• Tomar – Convento de Cristo, UNESCO World Heritage Site