Alias
- Also: Santarem
- City and castle in central Portugal.
- Location of one of the king's treasury towers. [Pedro, ch. 12: 35-38]
- Place where Álvaro Gonçalves and Pero Coelho were executed for killing Inês de Castro, King Pedro's long term mistress. [Pedro, ch. 31: 81-101]
- One of King Fernando's and Queen Leonor Teles's preferred places of residence with a palace and large gardens.
- King Fernando chose to be buried in the Convent of St. Francis in Santarém, though his tomb is now in the Archeological Museum of Carmo, Lisbon.
Not to Scale
Images for Santarém
![Santarém castle, 'Porta do Sol'. Gate facing the Sun and opening into the valley below. Stone steps against the interior side of the tall stone wall, leading to the gate opening of the gateway. [Photo by courtesy of João Correia]](https://fernaolopes.fcsh.unl.pt/sites/default/files/FL-PICS-J_Correia-Santarem_castle_Porta_do_sol.jpg "Santarém castle, 'Porta do Sol'. Gate facing the Sun and opening into the valley below. [Photo by courtesy of João Correia]")
![12th-century church of St. John of Alporão, Santarém. Originally part of a monastery of the Knights Hospitaller. Tall stone chruch with a Romanic style main entrance and a large rosette with some elements of a burgeoning Gothic. [Photo by courtesy of João Correia]](https://fernaolopes.fcsh.unl.pt/sites/default/files/FL-PICS-J_Correia-Church_%20St_%20John_%20Alporao_museu_municipal_de_santarem.jpg "12th-century church of St. John of Alporão, Santarém. Originallly, part of a monastery of the Knights Hospitaller. [Photo by courtesy of João Correia]")
Chronicle entries in which Santarém appears:
Citation: