Leiria

Alcobaça

Discover the 13 parishes that make up the municipality of Alcobaça, Leiria district.

13 Parishes

54,965 Inhabitants

125m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Alcobaça

Don't visit just one. Here's a route of 8 parishes ordered geographically for a perfect weekend getaway.

Benedita

Benedita

8,480 inh.

Turquel

Turquel

4,438 inh.

Évora de Alcobaça

Évora de Alcobaça

4,141 inh.

União das freguesias de Alcobaça e Vestiaria

União das freguesias de Alcobaça e Vestiaria

7,243 inh.

Bárrio

Bárrio

1,411 inh.

Cela

Cela

3,075 inh.

Vimeiro

Vimeiro

1,753 inh.

Alfeizerão

Alfeizerão

3,669 inh.

This route is calculated geographically to minimise travel. Perfect for discovering the municipality at your own pace.

02

Parishes
of Alcobaça

13 parishes

Alfeizerão

Alfeizerão

Before dawn, greenhouses glow; by dusk, pensioners trade dominoes for cherry liqueur under grafted o

Aljubarrota

Aljubarrota

Cornmeal ovens, medieval battlefields and cobalt azulejos in a Leiria village.

Bárrio

Bárrio

Limestone scarps, Cistercian terraces and the scent of fermenting pears at 173 m

Benedita

Benedita

Morning cider-sweet air, monks’ lanes & €4 olive oil at the mill gate

Cela

Cela

Orchards hum with Pêra Rocha harvest as Canal do Alviela waters limestone-karst Cela

Évora de Alcobaça

Évora de Alcobaça

Cistercian geometry carved orchards of Pêra Rocha into limestone ridges above Alcobaça.

Maiorga

Maiorga

Limestone orchards, fossil-laden streams and custard tarts at noon—Maiorga distills land and sea

São Martinho do Porto

São Martinho do Porto

A scallop-shell cove where Atlantic tides hush, toddlers cycle mirror-flat sand and grandmas clock f

Turquel

Turquel

Breathe ginja fumes, trace Cistercian walls, then slip from blossom to coal-dark mines in Alcobaça’s

União das freguesias de Alcobaça e Vestiaria

União das freguesias de Alcobaça e Vestiaria

Follow the Alcoa river from Cistercian nave to ginja orchard in Portugal’s 800-year-old parish

União das freguesias de Coz, Alpedriz e Montes

União das freguesias de Coz, Alpedriz e Montes

Between Alcobaça’s abbey and limestone ridges, three villages stitch wheat, olives and orchard squar

União das freguesias de Pataias e Martingança

União das freguesias de Pataias e Martingança

Walk Jurassic limestone galleries, Atlantic-view boardwalks and 3,000 ha of pines in União das fregu

Vimeiro

Vimeiro

Limestone crosses, frost-sweet cabbage rows and goat chanfana in an Alcobaça hamlet frozen in 1227

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