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Alcobaça

Alcobaça is a city of nearly 57 thousand1 located by small rivers in the West Intermunicipal Community of Portugal. Its 12th century Cistercian monastery is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the site of royal tombs.2

External references

front of the monastery, Alcobaça, West Intermunicipal Community, Portugal

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure in the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoba%C3%A7a,_Portugal, accessed December 28-30, 2015.
2. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).