Batalha
Batalha is a town near Leiria. It is famous for its 14th century monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,970 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Batalha Municipality” and “Batalha, Portugal”
- Neighbors: Leiria, Ourém, and Porto de Mós
Places of Interest
Highlights include Batalha Monastery and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Batalha Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Monastery of Batalha is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, historical Beira Litoral province, in the Centro of Portugal. Originally, and officially, known as the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory, it was erected in commemoration of the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota and would serve as the burial church of the 15th-century Aviz dynasty of Portuguese royalty.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Portuguese Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located in the Sala do Capitulo at the Monastery of Batalha, near Leiria. It holds the bodies of two soldiers of World War I – one from the battlefields of Flanders, and one from the African theatre – who were buried there on 6 April 1921.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calvaria de Cima.
Calvaria de Cima
Village
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Calvaria de Cima is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto de Mós, Portugal. The population in 2021 was 2,477, in an area of 10.11 km2. Calvaria de Cima is situated 4 km southwest of Batalha.
Batalha
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Leiria District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
39.6579° or 39° 39′ 28″ northLongitude
-8.8244° or 8° 49′ 28″ westPopulation
1,970Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)Inception
March 18th, 1500Open location code
8CFHM55G+57OpenStreetMap ID
node 25278387OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Batalha” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Batalha”
- Bishnupriya: “বাটালহা”
- Breton: “Batalha”
- Catalan: “Batalha”
- Cebuano: “Batalha (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Batalha”
- Chechen: “Баталья (Португали)”
- Chechen: “Баталья”
- Chinese: “Batalha”
- Chinese: “巴塔利亞”
- Croatian: “Batalha”
- Czech: “Batalha”
- Czech: “Klášter Batalha”
- Dutch: “Batalha (Portugal)”
- Dutch: “Batalha”
- Esperanto: “Batalha”
- French: “Batalha”
- Galician: “Batalha”
- German: “Batalha”
- Irish: “Batalha”
- Italian: “Batalha”
- Japanese: “バターリャ”
- Lithuanian: “Batalja”
- Lombard: “Batalha (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Batalha”
- Malay: “Batalha, Portugal”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Batalha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Batalha (Portugal)”
- Norwegian: “Batalha”
- Polish: “Batalha”
- Portuguese: “Batalha”
- Portuguese: “Município da Batalha”
- Romanian: “Batalha”
- Russian: “Баталья (Португалия)”
- Russian: “Баталья”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Batalha”
- Slovenian: “Batalha”
- Slovenian: “Občina Batalha”
- Spanish: “Batalha”
- Swedish: “Batalha”
- Tatar: “Баталья (Португалия)”
- Tatar: “Баталья”
- Turkish: “Batalha”
- Ukrainian: “Баталья”
- Ukrainian: “Баталя”
- Vietnamese: “Batalha, Bồ Đào Nha”
- Volapük: “Batalha (Portugän)”
- Volapük: “Batalha”
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