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After the victory, Count Afonso Henriques proclaimed himself the first king of Portugal, making it one of the first nation-states in Europe.
The church holds the tombs of Portugal’s first and second kings, Afonso Henriques and Sancho I, and the Claustro del Silencio (Cloister of Silence) is lined with pretty arches and colorful azulejos.
However, by 1249 Faro and the western Algarve were retaken under King Afonso III, completing the Reconquest.
The dauntless Afonso Henriques conquered it for the Christians in 1147, a major victory in the reconquest of Portugal.
Built to celebrate a victory, the 1147 battle in which Dom Afonso Henriques took over the town of Santarém from the Moors, the church remains the largest in Portugal.