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Every page on conventodecristo.com in one list, grouped by what you are trying to do. It is deliberately short. There is a page for each question people actually ask about this hill, a page that lines all eighteen bookable listings up against each other, and a review page wherever enough people wrote something to make one worth your time.
Start here
What it costs, and what you are actually booking
- The ticket at the door and the ticket on the platform
- All eighteen listings, with the admission column
- Coach from Lisbon, or a night in Tomar
Before you travel
- Hours, last entry, and the closure list
- From Lisbon, and the 1.3 km uphill from the station
- How long to allow
- Whether it is worth the journey
Inside the walls
- What to see, in the order you meet it
- The Charola, the round Templar oratory
- The Chapter House window
- The cloisters, and how many there are
- The Aqueduto dos Pegões
The Templars, and what happened to them here
- The Templars in Portugal, from 1160
- Why the order was destroyed everywhere else
- The Order of Christ, and the argument about it
- The cross, and what it stood for
- Afonso Henriques and the founding
- Freemasons and the Templars, answered
What reviewers actually wrote
- The whole written record, and the shape of it
- The admission ticket on its own (3.9 from 173 ratings)
- The Lisbon day trip, most-rated of all (4.8 from 700 ratings)
- The Lisbon day trip with the fee named flat (5.0 from 75 ratings)
- The Templar-specialist day trip (4.8 from 72 ratings)
- The private tour priced per party (4.7 from 109 ratings)
- The Tomar and Almourol private tour (4.9 from 8 ratings)
- The two-hour walking tour (5.0 from 8 ratings)
About this site
- Who writes this, and what it will not do
- Corrections and questions
- How this site is paid, and by whom
- Every photograph, its maker and its licence
- What is and is not collected
- This page
What is not here is as deliberate as what is. No hotels, no restaurants, no ranking of Portuguese monuments against each other, and no page of Templar mysteries. What there is, is one hill, what it costs to get up it, and an argument about who the people who built the top of it actually were.