Tomar (The City of the Templars), Elvas (not Elvis!), Back to Azeitao and Heading Home!
Sunday evening, we arrived in Tomar around 5 pm but it took quite a while to figure out where our hotel was. We'd put it in the SatNav but the address wasn't recognized. Note to self: it's better to put in the name of a hotel in case it is located on a pedestrian street! Once we'd found the Casas Dos Oficios and checked in about one hour later, we were very pleased. It is a four-star hotel in, I think, an old mansion. The rooms were almost luxurious and the hotel is in a good location; once, of course, you figured out where it is! Tomar was the last Templar town to be commissioned for construction and is one of Portugal's historical jewels. The town was especially important in the 15th century when it was a center of Portuguese overseas expansion under Henry the Navigator, the Grand Master of the Order of Christ, successor organization to the Knights Templar in Portugal. The town, with a population of about 20,000 is a World Herita...