Our visit begins at the church of Santa Maria dos Olivais, which has been the pantheon of the Order of the Temple since the 13th century and there are buried some Templar masters, including D. Gualdim Pais.
It continues to the Chapel of Santa Iria, the legendary patron saint of Tomar, which contains an admirable Calvary in stone and profuse decoration alluding to the symbols of the Holy Spirit.
The Electric Power Station, inaugurated on July 1, 1901, emerged with the purpose of supplying electricity to 100 lamps of 16 candles for the city, and that Tomar was one of the first cities in the country to have electric public lighting.
The Synagogue of Tomar is the only proto-Renaissance Hebrew temple in our country. The quadrangular plan and the vaulted roof based on columns and corbels embedded in the walls denote oriental influences. It was built in the century. XV and closed in 1496, when the Jews were expelled from Portugal.
The Church of São Batista was built at the end of the 15th century, in the typical Portuguese late Gothic style, the Manueline, clearly visible in the main entrance. It is decorated with several panels painted in the 30s of the 16th century by Gregório Lopes, one of the best Renaissance painters in Portugal.
