Day Twelve: rest day in Tomar

This wasn't planned but I woke up this morning with serious pain in my left hip.  I knew that walking would be a bad idea so I stayed for another day.  Ibuprofen does a lot but injuries take time to heal.  Don't know yet about walking tomorrow.  I likely will take a short bus ride because tomorrow's walk is 19 miles.
Okay.  The downfall of the Templars came soon after the end of the Crusades in the 1290's.  The Holy Land was once again under Muslim control and the Templars were no longer needed except in Spain and Portugal where they had a job pushing the Moors back to Morocco.  King Philip of France wanted to lead one more crusade and needed money so he conspired with the Pope to frame all the Templars in France on charges of heresy and blasphemy in order to steal their gold.  The French Templars are arrested and executed but the survivors escape to Spain and Portugal.  The Portuguese King brilliantly renamed the Templars as the Order of Christ to make the Pope happy and the King got to keep the money.
The King's third was Prince Henry.  As third son, he probably realized he didn't have a good shot at being king so he decided to start a school for navigation and sent ships out to discover Africa, India and Brazil and eventually Japan. All financed with Templar gold.

The central church in Tomar.  The second story of the bell tower is octagonal and the roof appears to be stone.

The interior.