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	Castle of Almourol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Castle of Almourol is situated in a small rocky island, in the middle of the Tagus river, in Portugal.
		The castle was a Templar Knights stronghold used during the Reconquista.
		The castle was reinvented, as a chivalric and romantic ideal of the Middle Ages, in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castle_of_Almourol (522 words)

	The Synagogue of Tomar, Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tomar (formerly spelled Thomar) is a small, historic town in central Portugal, about 145 km north east of Lisbon, best known for the remnants of an impressive Templar fortress and a superb monastery that attract many visitors.
		The synagogue of Tomar was in use until 1496, when King Manuel I "The Fortunate" of Portugal issued an edict, according to which the Jews had the choice to either convert to Christianity or to leave Portugal by October 1497.
		According to some notes in the parish records of a local church in Tomar, it seems that the building of the formar synagogue was used as a Christian chapel in the early 17th century.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Synagogue/Tomar.asp (979 words)

	CAA2005 The world is in your eyes
		Tomar is a historic town, was in its origins the Portuguese headquarters of the Knight Templar Order.
		Tomar is located in the centre of Portugal, in a pleasant valley crossed by Nabão river, where we can find remains of ancient civilizations, like the Romans, the Visigoth and the Moors.
		Tomar's main attraction are the Convent of Christ and the Knight Templar Castle built over a period of six hundred years, from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries.
	www.caa2005.ipt.pt /tomar.htm (323 words)

	Articles - Tomar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The predominant arborization is agricultural and comprises the olive tree, the pine and the fig tree.
		In the 15th century the (cleric) Great-Master began to be nominated by the Pope, and the (lay) Master or Governor by the King, instead of being elected by the monks.
		Tomar was occupied by the French during the Napoleonic invasions, against which it rebelled.
	www.bird-center.net /articles/Tomar (1166 words)

	tomar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tomar is a small village in central Portugal.
		A spectacular castle on a hill guards the approach to the town and, on entering the town, the visitor sees a quiet river fringed with parkways and trees where a wooden water wheel turns with the flow of the water.
		Tomar is also the site of a restored synagogue, originally built a half millennium ago.
	home.earthlink.net /~benven/tomar.htm (480 words)

	Portugal Travel Guide
		Tomar is an interesting town situated in a large and beautiful valley on the banks of the River Nabão in the centre of Portugal.
		Tomar's star attraction is the Convent of Christ, built over a period of six hundred years from the 12th to the 17th centuries.
		Comprising 180 arches, the Pegões Aqueduct on the edge of town was constructed from 1593-1614 to carry water to the Convent of Christ.
	www.portugaltravelguide.com /en/tomar.htm (307 words)

	Tomar biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tomar is a city in central Portugal, capital of the Médio Tejo (Tagus river) region.
		The municipality of Tomar is divided in 16 "freguesias" (parishes): 2 urban (Santa Maria dos Olivais and São João Baptista) and 14 rural.
		Tomar attracts many tourists, because of its varied monuments, such as the Convento de Cristo (Convent of Christ), a Unesco World Heritage Site, headquarters of the Knights Templar order.
	tomar.biography.ms (202 words)

	Tomar - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tomar is a city is central Portugal, capital of the region of Médio Tejo.
		This city is crossed by the river Nabão, being the ancient of the city Nabantina and being sometimes the inhabitants of Tomar called Nanbantinos.
		Tomar is acity with lots of monuments as the Convento de Cristo, being considered by Unesco Wordl's heritage.
	www.free-definition.com /Tomar.html (209 words)

	Castle of Almourol at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Situated in a small scarped island, in the Middle Land of the course of the Tagus river, the Castle of Almourol is one of more emblematic and spledorous military medieval monuments of the Reconquista, being, simultaneously, one of that better evokes the memory of the Templar Knights in Portugal.
		Through an epigraph, placed on the main door, we know that the conclusion of the building reconstruction was in 1171, two years after the buinding of the Castle of Tomar.
		With effect, the house arrest under bail tower is stranger to pre Romanic castles, that appeared only in 11th century in Tomar, the main Templar defensive redoubt in Portugal.
	wiki.tatet.org /Castle_of_Almourol.html (658 words)

	Portugal Travel Guide
		The knight-monks of Santiago were subsequently installed in the castle’s monastery in 1194.
		Situated with magnificent views on a spur of the Serra da Arrábida, Palmela Castle is one of the finest examples of Portuguese military architecture.
		In the castle’s dungeon directly below the keep, the bishop of Évora was imprisoned in 1484 for his part in the conspiracy against King João II.
	www.portugaltravelguide.com /en/palmela.htm (245 words)

	Santarém District - Portugal - images - part 2 - Portugalia.org
		Tomar: cloister of D. João III at the Convent of Christ
		Tomar: a Templar ceiling at the Convent of Christ
		Tomar: a nautilus on land - stairs at the convent of Christ
	www.travel-images.com /santarem2.html (92 words)

	www.LandOfDiscovery.com -- Tomar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tomar is a charming and historically outstanding town on the banks of the Nabão River.
		She was a young nun who lived in Tomar in the 7th century, who was murdered and thrown into the river after a feud between two rival suitors, a nobleman and a monk.
		There is a number of legends about this magical place, including one that says the castle is haunted by the ghost of a princess sighing for the love of her Moorish slave.
	www.geocities.com /discoveringportugal/tomar.html (954 words)

	Castle of Almourol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Castle of Almourol is situated in a small rocky in the middle of the Tagus river Portugal.
		The jail of the castle of Almourol had three and was significantly modified during its long while it still retaining important original characteristics.
		The castle was reinvented as a chivalric and romantic ideal of the Middle in the 19th century.
	www.freeglossary.com /Castle_of_Almourol (930 words)

	Secretplaces — Guide to authentic and romantic Portugal hotels
		The town is dominated by its 13th century castle which bears witness to its strategic position in the fight against Spain over the centuries.
		The white walled town of Castelo de Vide is perched on a hilltop around the fourteenth century castle and contrasts splendidly with the surrounding vegetation.
		Indeed the past never seems to be far away: Arouce castle dates back to the XII century and the streets are flanked by medieval houses.
	www.secretplaces.com /sp/1/countries/portugal_hotels.asp (2203 words)

	European castle Medieval Castles French castle Tourism
		Fortress Moor, the castle of Almourol was taken again at the time of the Portuguese reconquista under the reign of Alphonse 1st.
		In 1171, the castle was entrusted to the temple which decided to rebuild it to make of it a watchtower of the kingdom of Portugal.
		The castle is accessible by boat because it is truly an island: there are frontier runners which with the help of a moderate entrance fee enables you to reach it.
	www.casteland.com /puk/castle/europe/portugal/almourol/almourol.htm (188 words)

	Encyclopedia: Knights Templar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The headquarters of the Templars in Tomar, Portugal was in the Convento de Cristo.
		Coat of Arms Renaissance Manuelina style Window at the Convent of Christ Tomar, also known in English as Thomar, is a city of some 20,000 and also a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 351.
		Convento de Cristo, Castle of Tomar and Church of Santa Maria do Olival in Tomar, Portugal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Knights-Templar (8680 words)

	[RCTS] Military Order of Christ
		Nevertheless, the Pope's order to arrest the knights was never carried out in Portugal and by early 1310, King D. Diniz I signed a pact with his father-in-law, King D. Fernando IV of Castile, so as to protect theTemplars' properties in their Kingdoms against any action which could hurt the interests of both Crowns.
		The town of Tomar in Portugal was the headquarters first of the Templars, and later of the Order of Christ.
		From the Castle at Tomar, the Templars rode out to fight against the Moors, and in 1190 they were besieged by the King of Morocco.
	members.tripod.com /~doru_gavril/port3.htm (1007 words)

	Tomar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Concelho de Tomar is a very nice Portuguese language site which has pages on the local monuments including some lovely pictures of the Convento de Cristo rising above the town.
		The relationship between the rose and the cross is very clear here, keeping with the similarity of the one which was recently found in the interior of the castle and which piqued, at last, the curiosity of our official exoteric historians.
		The castle was built in 1160 by Gualdim Pais, master of the Templars in Portugal, and in the same year the town of Tomar came into being.
	www.thornr.demon.co.uk /kchrist/tomar.html (570 words)

	VRMAG - A 360 DEGREE TOUR OF PORTUGAL
		Coimbra is on the Costa de Prata, the coastal strip between Lisbon and Porto in central Portugal, as is Tomar, home to the Castle of Tomar and the Convent of Christ.
		Tomar was the headquarters of the Order of the Knights Templar in Portugal until the 14th century when the order was extinguished and replaced by the Order of Christ.
		The Castle of Tomar was built in 1160 and the Convent of Christ (Convento de Cristo) was built over 600 years, from the 12th to the 17th centuries.
	vrm.vrway.com /issue12/A_360_DEGREE_TOUR_OF_PORTUGAL.html (1255 words)

	Costa de Prata, Portugal - Informações Turísticas
		The walls of the castle can still be seen rising over the quiet streets of this little town, proud of its Miserichord Church (16th century, with a fine Manueline portal topped by armillary spheres).
		It is worth visiting the church of St. Mary of the Castle, with a remarkable sculpture depicting the "Holy Mothers", and the fourteen paintings at the main chapel dating from the 17th century.
		The enchanting castle proudly exhibits its pinnacles and crenels, crowning this town of winding streets with 18th and 19th-centuries houses, the 18th-century ornamental fountain at the Praça Velha (Old Square) and the Miserichord Church, from the same period.
	www.portugalvirtual.pt /_tourism/costadeprata/indexp.html (3401 words)

	Paradise Now /// Sacred Sites
		Tomar is situated in an area of hills, valleys and woods cris-crossed with rivers and streams and populated with idyllic villages, old slate houses and fairy tale castles.
		About an hour's drive from Tomar on a tiny island in the midst of the river Tagus is the fairy tale Templar castle of Almourol.
		The castle is extremely attractive from the outside but inside it is a shell with nothing to see.
	www.paradise-now.net /sacredsites/portugal.asp (1498 words)

	pilgrim chapter 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To commemorate that conquest, the King added to the national flag nine castles lined in a U-form and representing the same number of fortresses captured from the Moors.
		The exterior of the Charola Tower of the Convent of Tomar.
		It was in 1160 that the Templars began constructing the Castle of Tomar, inspired by the style of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, which was characterized by a round, eight-arch main altar.
	www.apol.net /dightonrock/pilgrim_chapter_6.htm (2714 words)

	The Preceptory Armory, created Feb 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		omar Castle was built in 1160 by Gualdim Pais, Master of the Temple in Portugal.
		The round chapel was a fortress church dating from the building of the castle (XII century).
		Henry (the Navigator) was Master of this Order and Tomar was the headquarters.
	www.webpages.free-online.co.uk /portcull/tomar.htm (67 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Costa de Prata
		This walled town, with its narrow streets spreading from the foot of the castle, still preserves all the atmosphere of a 16th century mediaeval town.
		Since it was the property of the queens of Portugal, Obidos always enjoyed special protection from the royal court and at one time had a school of arts and sciences.
		Dominated by its proud castle, the former royal palace conquered from the Moors in 1135, the city developed at the foot of the hill, bordered by the river Lis and spreading out from the old Rua Dur in keeping with the typical structure of mediaeval towns.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Costa_Prata.html (1144 words)

	Tomar Portugal virtual Tour using 360 degree interactive panoramic photos with QuickTime VR Technology
		Tomar - Templars castle, Charola and Convent of Christ - Portugal
		The principal monument in Tomar is the castle and the Convent of Christ, built on the hill overlooking the city.
		The only remains of the original 12th century castle are the surrounding walls and the fortress with its keep and the circular temple with the central high Chaple within the octogonal Romanesque Charola built in the rounded style so dear to the Templars.
	www.360portugal.com /Distritos.QTVR/Santarem.VR/Patrimonio/Tomar (131 words)

	(GCG1RM) Convento de Cristo [Tomar] by MAntunes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The core of the fortress heart, the Alcáçova (Citadel), with the donjon, was built on the east side; the mystical place, the octagonal Templar Church, was built on the west side.
		Tomar became, therefore, the headquarters of the Order and, Prince Henry, the Navigator, their Master.
		We were in Tomar for a birthday party and we played a foot paper game.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=67261 (609 words)

	Discover Portugal Tomar Ourem Fatima and Central Portugal
		Quaint little islands and castles in the river will sparkle with their charm.
		We had decided that Tomar would be a good place to rest for a few days and give us the opportunity to explore more of this section of Portugal.
		Tomar's excellent location makes it a logical base for exploring the surrounding areas.
	www.geocities.com /paris/4118/travel20.htm (1167 words)

	The Old Stone Mill
		It is there today, gallant and beautiful, as the main rotunda or charola of the Castle of Tomar.
		Charola of the Castle of Tomar with 8 arches.
		He pointed out that the Portuguese have always been good masons: "Even today their favorite way of construction is to use small stones thickly embedded in cement" which was the method used in Newport Tower.
	www.redwood1747.org /tower/pilgrims.htm (1997 words)

	Knights Templar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were given extensive possessions and castles in frontier land.
		At one point, they were to inherit the kingdom of Aragon, jointly with other military orders.
		Castle of Almourol, Idanha, Monsanto, Pombal and Zêzere in Portugal
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knights_Templar (2953 words)

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