The Festival of the Trays is Tomar’s main community celebration and is one of the most charismatic collective practices and manifestations that take place in Portugal. It is held every four years, in the first days of July. The history of this celebration is connected to the cult of the

Tomar was the headquarters of the Order of the Temple in Portugal from the 1160s until it ceased to exist in 1312, and there is significant evidence of the Templars’ presence in the city. Founded at the beginning of the Christian era, under the name of Sellium, it bordered the

Saint Irene is considered the patron saint of the city of Tomar. A martyr of the 7th century, she was born in the city of Nabância, Tomar’s predecessor, in the year 635. She grew up in a Christian family and decided to pursue religious life in a Benedictine convent, ruled