The prestigious Convent of Christ unveils a captivating "immersive experience" dedicated to the route of the TemplarsThe new "Cerco ao Castelo de Tomar Reconstitution". This new experience room, accessible from Wednesday, offers a unique tourist experience linked to the region's Templar history.
This initiative is a key step in the development of this tourist route, skilfully combining historical resources, immersive experiences and communication tools. Let's find out more about this exciting new facet, which promises to enrich your visit to the Templar sites of the Medio Tejo.
Tomar's Convent of Christ unveils an immersive experience for the Route of the Templars
This exciting immersive experience, as part of the Medio Tejo Templar Route, is a new and enriching tourism offering for visitors to the region. This initiative combines various resources linked to the Templar theme.
Andreia Galvão, the convent's director, is keeping the suspense alive until Wednesday's public presentation. She emphasizes that the new room will provide visitors with information about the Templar heritage and history, encouraging them to explore the Médio Tejo territory. The project involves several of the region's municipalities and is of great importance to the Convento de Cristo as a tourist and cultural establishment, as well as to the Intermunicipal Community (CIM), which is banking heavily on the success of the Templar Route.
The Route of the Knights Templar in the Medio Tejo is the result of an initiative by the CIM Medio Tejo, approved within the framework of the Line of Support for the Tourist Enhancement of the Portuguese Tourism Interior. This innovative project is part of the intermunicipal Territorial Affirmation program of the Medio Tejo.
In addition, once the current work on the Dornes Tower in Ferreira do Zêzere is complete, CIM Médio Tejo plans to offer a video mapping experience illustrating the legends of the Dornes Tower and Nossa Senhora do Pranto.
In addition to these experiments, CIM announces the launch of the templarportugal.comTemplar Route' app, as well as templarportugal social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. These platforms allow visitors to discover the details of this new tourist offer and find out more about the history of the Templars.
Manuel Jorge Valamatos, President of the CIM Médio Tejo, points out that these experiences enhance visits to the territory's Templar resources and monuments, attracting a diverse audience from the youngest to the oldest. The Templar Route encompasses seven of the eleven municipalities in the Médio Tejo, including Abrantes, Ferreira do Zêzere, Ourém, Sertã, Tomar, Torres Novas and Vila Nova da Barquinha. The inauguration ceremony for the Convento de Cristo's "immersive experience room" will be held in the Scriptorium of this Tomar monument, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993 and will have welcomed around 300,000 visitors by 2023.
