Tomar Roof Tops

Looking out over the red rooftops of the town of Tomar with the Church of São João Baptista in the foreground.
You can tell the photo is a few years old as the square in front of the church and the street of Serpa Pinto to the left have been pedestrianised since then

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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…