Santarém, Portugal · Europe
Alcanede works well as a base: 15 minutes from Amiães de Baixo, 30km from Nazare.
Alcanede is in Santarém, Portugal, with about 5,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Amiães de Baixo, about 8 km away.
Alcanede is a civil parish in the municipality of Santarém, Portugal, in the district of the same name, of the Ribatejo. The population in 2011 was 4,547, in an area of 105.84 km2. Between 1163 and 1855 it was a municipal seat (with a population of 6408 inhabitants in 1801).
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Within an hour or so of Alcanede: Alcobaça Monastery (20 km), Batalha Monastery (27 km), Sanctuary of Fátima (27 km), Obidos (29 km).
The nearest famous roads are N2: Portugal's Route 66, Tram 28 Route, Lisbon and Sintra–Cascais Coast Road (N247).
Alcanede is in Santarém, Portugal, about 8 km from Amiães de Baixo.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cathedral
Portugal's largest church, a UNESCO Cistercian abbey founded in 1153, holding the facing carved tombs of King Pedro I and his murdered lover Inês de Castro: placed foot-to-foot so they rise facing each other at judgement.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A Gothic and Manueline masterpiece built to commemorate the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, with its famous Unfinished Chapels.
27 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
One of Catholicism's great modern pilgrimage sites, built where three shepherd children reported Marian apparitions in 1917: a vast esplanade twice the size of St Peter's Square links the 1953 basilica and the 9,000-seat Holy Trinity church.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
A fairy-tale walled medieval town of whitewashed houses with blue and yellow trim, famous for its ginjinha cherry liqueur.
29 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
A fishing town famous for producing the world's largest surfed waves, with 30-meter swells breaking at the Praia do Norte canyon.
30 km · about 35 min drive
beach
The beach where a submarine canyon generates record-breaking waves, overlooked by the Forte de São Miguel Arcanjo.
31 km · about 35 min drive
castle
A Templar castle on a rocky island in the Tagus river, reached by short ferry from a riverside car park.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
A UNESCO-listed Templar monastery with a Manueline round church and the celebrated carved Chapter House window.
40 km · about 45 min drive
5 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
April to October
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