Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Monastery of Alcobaça' has mentioned 'Monastery' in the following places:
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| The monastery was established in 1153 by the first Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, and would develop a close association with the Portuguese monarchy throughout its seven-century-long history. | WIKI |
| The church and monastery were the first Gothic buildings in Portugal, and, together with the roughly older Augustinian Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra, it was one of the most important mediaeval monasteries in Portugal. | WIKI |
| The foundation of the monastery was part of a larger strategy by King Afonso I to assert his authority and promote the colonisation of lands recently conquered from the Moors during the "Reconquista Cristxc3xa3" or Reconquista. | WIKI |
| [3] Initially, the monks lived in wooden houses, and would only move to the newly built monastery in 1223. | WIKI |
| Church and adjacent monastery are the earliest examples of truly Gothic architecture in Portugal, and the church itself was the largest in Portugal at the time of its completion. | WIKI |
| The monks from the monastery produced an early authoritative history on Portugal in a series of books. | WIKI |
| The remnants of the monastery library, including hundreds of mediaeval manuscripts, are kept today in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal , Portugal's national library in Lisbon. | WIKI |
| During the Middle Ages, the monastery quickly became a powerful and influential presence within the kingdom of Portugal. | WIKI |
| The monastery owned and developed extensive agriculture areas, and the abbot exerted influence over a large area. | WIKI |
| The importance of the monastery can be measured by the fact that many monarchs were buried here in the 13th and 14th centuries. | WIKI |
| After being crowned king, Pedro commissioned two magnificent Gothic tombs for himself and his mistress, both of which can still be seen inside the monastery church. | WIKI |
| The monastery was further enlarged in the 18th century, with the addition of a new cloister and towers to the church, although the mediaeval structure was mostly preserved. | WIKI |
| In the Baroque period, the monks were famous for their clay sculptures, many of them are still inside the monastery. | WIKI |
| The great 1755 Lisbon earthquake did not cause significant damage to the monastery, although part of the sacristy and some smaller buildings were destroyed. | WIKI |
| In 1834, with the dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal, the last monks left the monastery. | WIKI |
| The main faxc3xa7ade of the monastery has two plain-style wings with the church in the middle. | WIKI |
| The pulpit is one of the most harmonious architectural structures of the monastery. | WIKI |
| The cloister of the monastery was built during the reign of, and sponsored by, King Dinis I. | WIKI |
| The Gothic Fountain Hall has an elegant early Renaissance water basin inside, decorated with Renaissance motifs including the coat-of-arms of the monastery. | WIKI |
| This room, where the monks gathered to discuss the daily matters concerning the monastery, was the most important room after the church. | WIKI |
| The kitchen of the monastery was built and covered with tiles in the mid-18th century. | WIKI |
| In the 13th century, while the monastery church, laid out similarly to Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy (France), and the magnificent monastic buildings were under construction, the monastery's intellectual and political influence had already spread throughout the western part of the Iberian Peninsula. | UNESCO |