Batalha Favorite Tips by Martin_S.

Batalha details

Favorite thing: I have spoken to many friends about visiting tourist sites and taking photos. Most often when we ask one another "Did you see.....?", you find that there were details that missed your eye. This is a direct result of the sensory overload that some of the OVERLY detailed places provide, you just cannot take it all in at one visit.
These photos are a few of the details that we DID see.

Looking up at Batalha

Favorite thing: The architecture of religious structures is meant to awe and overwhelm and here Batalha does a good job of that also. A friend of mine, who also happens to be a christian priest, once told me the reason when I asked him "why does it need to be so BIG?". His answer was that making the churches so high would draw your view upwards toward heaven....well sounds like a logical answer.

The windows of Batalha

Favorite thing: One of the things that attract me as a tourist and photographer to many religious structures is the detail and beauty of the windows, stained glass or not. Batalha was no different, not only the major stained glass window, which is from the 1500's, but also the frames and added details surrounding the windows.

Come on in to Batalha

Favorite thing: Batalha was a surprise for us, we really, for some reason, loved this monastary. And this after we had seen dozens here in Portugal.
I have attached a few internet sites that we used for information/history and they also have some professional photos much better than mine.

Fondest memory: http://www.sacred-destinations.com/portugal/batalha-monastery
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/264
http://www.sights-and-culture.com/Portugal/Batalha.html