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Afonso V married his cousin Isabel in this small church in 1441, when they were mere children (he was 10, she all of eight).
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.
Afonso Henriques, the first King of Portugal, is said to have been born in the castle and baptized nearby, in the small Romanesque Igreja de São Miguel do Castelo.
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.
Two years later, the Portuguese sent their fleet, led by Afonso de Albuquerque, to seize Melaka.