- For other places with the same name, see Alcobaça (disambiguation).
Alcobaça Monastery
Alcobaça is a small city in Portugal's Oeste region. The popular bayside beach resort of São Martinho do Porto is located in the municipality.
Get in
Map of Alcobaça
By car
The main Lisbon–Porto route is the A1 motorway, but the A8 comes closer to Alcobaça.
By train
- Comboios de Portugal (CP
, Trains of Portugal), ☏ 351 707 210 220. PDF timetable. Multiple daily Regional and InterRegional trains connect Alcobaça municipality with other locations along Portugal's west coast on the Linha do Oeste (Western Line), including Lisbon, Caldas da Rainha, Torres Vedras, Leiria, Coimbra, and points in between. Old infrastructure and meandering around hills mean that the train is usually slower than the bus. Four stations serve the municipality. - 1 Valado–Nazaré–Alcobaça train station, Valado dos Frades. The train station nearest Alcobaça is in an outlying village in an adjacent municipality.
- 2 São Martinho do Porto train station (just E of the beach).
- 3 Pataias train station.
- 4 Martingança train station.
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By bus
- 5 Alcobaça bus terminal, Av. Manuel da Silva Carolino 1.
- 6 São Martinho do Porto long-distance bus stop, Rua Marechal Carmona 58, São Martinho do Porto (adjacent to the Intermarché supermarket).
- Rede Expressos (Rede Nacional de Expressos), ☏ 351 707 223 344, ✉[email protected]. This national coach company offers express service from several cities.
- Rodoviária do Oeste (RDO), ☏ 351 262 767 676, ✉[email protected]. This regional coach company provides service to nearby cities, towns, villages, and beaches in the Oeste region. It also offers some special "rapid" services.
- Rápida Rosa. RDO offers Rápida Rosa (Pink Rapid) service between São Martinho do Porto and Caldas da Rainha, Nazaré, Leiria, and select stops in between.
By train
Get around
Map of Alcobaça
See
- 1 Alcobaça Monastery. listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- 2 Wine Museum, Rua do Olival Fechado, ☏ 351 968 497 832. Tu-Su, 11AM-3PM.
Do
- 1 Baía de São Martinho do Porto (Bay of São Martinho do Porto), Avenida Marginal, São Martinho do Porto. The calm waters of the bay are favored by families with small children and others who just want to relax in the sea. If sand and saltwater are not your speed, you can walk along the cobbled sidewalk and take in the nearby cafés.
Buy
Eat
- 1 Restaurante António Padeiro, R. Dr. Maur Cocheril 27 (near the main square). 12:00–15:30 & 19:00–22:00 daily.
- 2 Nova Caravela, Rua Cândido dos Reis 25D, São Martinho do Porto, ☏ 351 916 159 976, ✉[email protected]. 12:30–15:30 & 19:00–22:00 (closed Th). Fresh fish and seafood right on the seashore. €15–€60.
Drink
Sleep
- 1 Challet Fonte Nova, Rua da Fonte Nova, n.8, ☏ 351 262 598 300, ✉[email protected].
- 2 Hotel Concha, Largo Vitorino Fróis 21 & 23, São Martinho do Porto, ☏ 351 262 098 348, ✉[email protected]. This three-star, 30-room hotel is a short walk from the beach. €58–€98.
- 3 Hotel Santo António da Baía, Rua dos Bombeiros Voluntários, São Martinho do Porto, ☏ 351 262 185 573, ✉[email protected]. Hotel Santo António da Baía is a 22-room, three-star establishment. Although the bay (baía) is in the name, the hotel is about 600 m (2,000 ft) from the beach. $54–$135.
- 4 Hotel Santa Maria, R. Dr. Francisco Zagalo, 20/22, ☏ 351 262 590 160, ✉[email protected]. A three star hotel.
Go next
- Fátima (Sanctuary of Our Lady) – Place of the worldwide famous Marian apparitions.
- Batalha – has a nice monastery.
- Caldas da Rainha – charming, unassuming city to experience authentic daily Portuguese life
- Leiria – with its famous castle.
- Nazaré – a picture-postcard beach town, lately noted for its surfing
- Óbidos – walled hilltop medieval town
- Peniche – beaches and water sports, access to the Berlengas archipelago
- Pinhal de Leira, pinewood forest.
- Tomar – Convento de Cristo, UNESCO World Heritage Site