Elaborate Ceiling - Convento de Cristo - Tomar

A fantastically decorated ceiling in one of the chapels in the Convent of the Order of Christ ( Convento de Cristo) in Tomar.
In the centre you can see the cross of the Knights Templar along with the Portuguese coat of arms and armillary sphere

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Although a small town, Tomar plays a large role in a very important stage of Portuguese history, with links to the Knights Templar and the Discoveries, and remains an attractive and interesting place to visit.Its story begins in the eleven hundreds when much land in the area was donated to the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem by the then Queen Dona Teresa and her son Dom Afonso Henriques. Upon…