Cloisters - Convento de Cristo - Tomar

Looking out over the Claustro de Santa Bárbara towards the Claustro do Cemitério in the Convento de Cristo in Tomar.
On the right you can make out some of the famous Manueline Chapterhouse window.

There are a total of eight cloisters in the monastery.

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