Santarém, Portugal

Santarém is the capital of the Santarém district and a municipality of the Ribatejo (58 662 inhabitants · 553 km²), on a plateau above the right bank of the Tagus, about 80 kilometres north-east of Lisbon. The city looks over the farmland of the Tagus floodplain, and its historic centre keeps Gothic, Manueline and Baroque churches from its time as a medieval royal town.

The history of Santarém has its own page.

Monuments in Santarém

• Church of Graça: a Gothic church begun in 1380, where the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral is buried.
• Church of Marvila: a church with a Manueline portal and an interior lined with tiles laid between 1617 and 1639.
• Sanctuary of the Santíssimo Milagre: the former Church of Santo Estêvão, which keeps the relic of the Eucharistic Miracle of Santarém.
• Santarém Cathedral: the former Jesuit church on Praça Sá da Bandeira, the cathedral of the diocese since 1975.
• Torre das Cabaças: a medieval clock tower in the historic centre, used as a museum of time.

Museums and culture in Santarém

• Museum of São João de Alporão: the archaeological museum of the city, in a church founded by the Knights Hospitaller.
• Diocesan Museum: a museum of sacred art beside the cathedral.

Nature in Santarém

• Portas do Sol Garden: a garden inside the walls of the old castle, with a view over the Tagus and its floodplain.
• Tagus floodplain: the flat farmland on both banks of the river, flooded by the Tagus in winter.

Leisure in Santarém

• City visits: Visiting Santarém covers trains, the areas of the city, the riverside villages and the food of the Ribatejo.
• In the district: the Convent of Christ in Tomar and the Fátima Sanctuary in Ourém are the district's best-known monuments.

Parishes of Santarém

• Abitureiras (888 inhabitants · 24 km²)
• Abrã (980 inhabitants · 22 km²)
• Achete (2 744 inhabitants · 44 km²)
• Alcanede (3 970 inhabitants · 106 km²): the largest parish of the municipality by area.
• Alcanhões (1 344 inhabitants · 11 km²)
• Almoster (1 603 inhabitants · 41 km²)
• Amiais de Baixo (1 616 inhabitants · 6 km²)
• Arneiro das Milhariças (738 inhabitants · 12 km²)
• Azoia de Cima (2 154 inhabitants · 33 km²)
• Casével (1 037 inhabitants · 37 km²)
• Cidade de Santarém (30 017 inhabitants · 56 km²): the city parish, with the historic centre, and the most populous parish of the municipality.
• Gançaria (485 inhabitants · 6 km²)
• Moçarria (965 inhabitants · 12 km²)
• Pernes (1 246 inhabitants · 16 km²)
• Póvoa da Isenta (1 045 inhabitants · 14 km²)
• Romeira (2 450 inhabitants · 32 km²)
• São Vicente do Paul (1 656 inhabitants · 49 km²)
• Vale de Figueira (977 inhabitants · 22 km²)
• Vale de Santarém (2 755 inhabitants · 10 km²)

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