Visit
Opening hours, tickets, getting here, accessibility, the self-guided tour and the monument shop.
Opening hours
| October 16 – March 31 | 9h — 18h last admission 17h30 |
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| April 1 – October 15 | 9h — 18h30 last admission 18h00 |
Closing days: 1 January, Easter Sunday, 1 May, and 25 December.
Tickets
You can purchase tickets online or on location, at our ticket office.
| Adult | 15 € |
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| Senior (aged 65 and over) | 7,50 € |
| Young person aged 13 to 24 | 7,50 € |
| Family (minimum of 1 adult and 1 child) | 50% discount |
| Children up to 12 | free of charge |
| People with reduced mobility | free of charge |
Getting here
O Mosteiro da Batalha situa-se na vila da Batalha, distrito de Leiria, centro de Portugal.
- A bilheteira situa-se no Largo Infante D. Henrique, nas traseiras do monumento.
- A 50 metros de distância está o Largo Cónego Simões Inácio, com parque de estacionamento gratuito e três lugares para pessoas com mobilidade reduzida.
- Deslocando-se de carro: vindo de Lisboa utilize a A1 em direção norte até ao nó A8/A19 (Leiria) e depois para oeste até à Batalha.
- If travelling by coach: Rede Expressos operates daily services from the Sete Rios coach station in Lisbon to Batalha. The journey takes around 2 hours and the Batalha coach station is a 5-minute walk from the monastery ticket office.
Changes to access and circuit of visit were introduced following Storm Kristin, to ensure everyone’s safety.
Accessibility
Ao chegar
- Transportes rodoviários.
- Parque de estacionamento próximo, no Largo Cónego Simões Inácio, a 50 m da receção/bilheteira, com três lugares para mobilidade reduzida.
- Pavimentos rebaixados na envolvente de acesso à bilheteira.
No interior
- Receção/bilheteira acessível.
- Rampas na maior parte do percurso (exceto na Capela do Fundador).
- Escadaria com corrimão para acesso ao piso superior do Claustro de D. Afonso V.
- Áreas de pausa e de descanso com bancos no circuito da visita.
- WC com acessibilidade no piso 0.
- Cadeira de rodas disponível.
Na comunicação e mediação
- Programação diversificada e adaptada à diversidade dos grupos.
- Mediação realizada por pessoas com deficiência intelectual.
- Conteúdos informativos e expositivos em português e inglês.
- Linguagem clara e acessível nos textos disponíveis.
- QR Codes com áudios dos textos na exposição temporária.
- Guide in Braille and guide with pictograms and plain language (available on request at the ticket office).
Route
Self-guided tour
Eleven stops, in the order in which the monument is visited.
The tour begins in the monument church. This space, eighty metres long by twenty-two metres wide, was built using local limestone. The central nave is almost thirty metres high. Take the opportunity to admire, at the chancel, the oldest stained-glass windows in Portugal, dating from the 16th century and commissioned by King Manuel I.
Next, you should visit the Founder’s Chapel, which is accessed from inside the church. In the centre lies the double tomb of King João I and Queen Filipa of Lancaster, and on the south wall are the tombs of four of their children. On the western wall, behind the tomb of the king and queen, you will find three neo-Gothic tombs containing the remains of two kings and a prince of the Avis Dynasty.
Next, from inside the church, enter the circuit of the two cloisters: the Cloister of King João I and that of King Afonso V.
In the Cloister of King João I you will reach the Chapter House, where the tomb of Portugal’s Unknown Soldier stands, flanked by the Christ of the Trenches. The stained-glass windows in this room also date from the 16th century. The star-vaulted ceiling covering the space of almost four hundred square metres is one of the highlights.
During your tour you will pass through the friars’ dormitory, where you can see a Manueline portal. You will also pass through the friars’ washroom, a ritual space, and the former refectory — currently home to the Museum of Offerings to the Unknown Soldier.
Leaving this cloister, you pass through a corridor leading to a room where temporary exhibitions are regularly held. This room was once the kitchen.
Next to it is the former larder, which houses an exhibition of pottery fragments found during excavations on this site, as well as a work by the artist Nelson Ferreira.
In the Cloister of King Afonso V, you can appreciate the simplicity and beauty of this place, which served very practical functions as a dormitory on the upper floor and a storeroom on the lower floor.
You can continue through a door where, in a small vestibule, you will see a plaster bust of King Fernando II, who sponsored the restoration of the monastery in the 19th century.
Climbing the stairs, you can visit the upper floor of the Cloister of King Afonso V and see the mechanism of the tower’s old clock, which dates from the 15th century. After descending, turn right and walk along the cloister gallery towards the gift shop.
On leaving, keep to your right until you reach the Unfinished Chapels, the pantheon of King Duarte. Here you can marvel at the grandeur of this unfinished space — it has no roof — and admire the Manueline portal by Mateus Fernandes, an architect in the service of King Manuel I.
At the end of the route
Shop
A nossa loja coloca à disposição publicações especializadas de história, arte, arquitetura e temas de museologia. Ainda poderá encontrar roteiros e obras de ficção histórica, tal como literatura infantil e juvenil dentro destas temáticas.
We have a variety of items, including ceramics, textiles and jewellery, as well as small souvenirs from the monument.
