A visit to the Templar castle in Mogadouro in north east Portugal
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, castle, catholic, Cavaleiros, Dom Afonso, Douro, fortress, gualdim, knights, medieval, miranda, Mirandense, Mogadouro, mystery, pais, porto, portugal, Templar, templario, today, tower, Tras os Montes
How the Knights Templar survived in Portugal by changing their name
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, buried, christ, Clement, cristo, crusader, Czech, Dinis, Grail, hidden, History Channel, holy, knight, Knightfall, Moors, ordem, Order, order of christ, pope, portugal, rei, saracen, secret, Soumrak templářů, Templar, tomar, torture, treasure, tunnel
I have just returned from a very Templar themed holiday in Portugal – in the next few blog posts, I’ll share my discoveries with you: Lisbon is the capital of modern day Portugal and a thriving, bustling city. But let’s…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: afonso, bear, cathedral, Grail, henriques, Knightfall, knights, lgbt, Lisbon, mosque, portugal, quest, Templar, tomar
This is an astonishing story from the Middle Ages of how a vast crusader army on the way to the Holy Land was convinced to divert to Portugal and help a small Christian kingdom take a city called Al-Usbuna from…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, Al Lixbuna, Al-usbuna, Clermont, conquest, cross, crusade, Dinis, gualdim, henriques, knight, Knightfall, knights, Lisbon, Master, medieval, moor, Moorish, muslim, pais, Pitoes, pope, porto, portugal, quest, Templar, tomar, tunnel, Urban
Hard to believe that modern Spain and Portugal were once part of a global caliphate (from 711 CE) – ruled by Muslim emirs. It then became a battleground between Islam and Christianity for eight hundred years. Finally, by 1492, the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, Al-Andalus, Al-usbuna, Al-Usbunna, Andalus, Ark, buried, Caliphate, catholic, conquest, covenant, escape, gualdim, henriques, History Channel, Holy Grail, Knightfall, martim, moniz, moor, Moorish, muslim, pais, portugal, roman, spain, tomar, treasure
Barcelona is today the most exciting city in Spain from a cultural and economic point of view – though I have always had a big soft spot for Madrid, the capital. Not a view shared by many citizens of Barcelona…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: afonso, Alfonso, Barcelona, Catalan, Catalunya, george, Jordi, Jorge, knight, knights, Medieval, san, San Jordi, spain, Templar
Portugal didn’t crush the Knights Templar but instead turned them into a new organisation called the Order of Christ
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, Brazil, christ, christian, Dinis, discovery, gualdim, holy, India, initiation, king, knight, madeira, Montesa, navigator, ordem, Order, order of christ, pais, portugal, rite, ritual, secret, Sintra, Templar, tomar, treasure, tunnel, well
