The Charola (Templar Rotunda) – Manueline Exterior

This façade is part of the 12th‑century Templar church that was later wrapped in an explosion of Manueline ornamentation during the reign of King Manuel I (1495–1521).

The Manueline style is Portugal’s unique late‑Gothic expression — maritime, symbolic, and exuberant — and nowhere is it more dramatic than here in Tomar.