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Copyright: Malgorzata Kopczynska (emka) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 118 W: 0 N: 66] (1141)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-12
Categories: Architecture
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/640 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-11-07 8:40
Viewed: 594
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha, more commonly known as the Batalha Monastery, is a Dominican monastery in the Portuguese town of Batalha, in the District of Leiria, Portugal. It is one of the best and original examples of Late Gothic architecture in Portugal, intermingled with the Manueline style. It amazes the onlooker with its profusion of gables, spires, pinnacles and buttresses. It has become a symbol of national pride.
he monastery was built to thank the Virgin Mary for the Portuguese victory over the Castilians in the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385, fulfilling a promise of King D. João I. The battle put an end to the 1383-1385 crisis.

The monastery took two centuries to build, starting in 1386 and ending circa 1517, spanning the reign of seven kings.It has an original Portuguese style, a mixture of rayonnant and flamboyant Gothic architecture combined with strong elements of English Perpendicular, that finds few parallels in Europe (from Wikipedia)
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Hello Malgorzata
I like this photo because it is a foreign look (yours) into "my" Portugal. Your photographer's note is very interesting and tells a little bit of the history of this monastery and portuguese history.
Thanks for sharing and wellcome to TL.
C.Neri

Hi Malgorzata
welcome on TL an very nice architecture of these columns
great pov and just little dark but the first is always the first!!!
Have a nice week
ciao
Lucio

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