The Templar Knights were created in 1118 in Jerusalem by nine French knights, to protect the pilgrims who traveled to holy places conquered in the Holy Land during the Crusades. Legend has it that the first riders settled in the ancient Temple of Solomon, where they found documents and treasures that made them powerful. It is […]
The church of Santa Maria dos Olivais which was built in the mid 1300s for the Grand Masters of the Knights Templar Order. Santa Maria dos Olivais was built on the place of a seventh century temple and was chosen, during the Portuguese Discoveries, as the mother church of all the churches of Africa, Asia […]
The Convent of Christ in Tomar is a combination of a castle and a convent, used by the Knights Templar. In 1160 the building of the castle was started. The land (like many more around Southern Europe) was given by the Portuguese king to the Order of the Knights Templar, in return for their support […]
