How many tales have arisen from the Monastery of Batalha?
Thinking of all the stories mentally sketched day after day by every visitor who walks the centenary grounds of the Monastery, an idea sprouted: Why not use the Monastery as the starting point for a book?
Why not challenge writers to wander, imagine, and pen stories that could later somewhat become the stories of those who would read them?
To that purpose, twenty writers were invited to visit the Monastery for a weekend; they looked, touched, shared, felt. Then, they wrote.
Twenty tales, imperfect in their perfection.
How many tales have arisen from history?
For now, twenty.

 

Tales authored by Afonso Cruz, Ana Cristina Silva, Andreia Monteiro, António Manuel Venda, Cláudia Clemente, Cristina Carvalho, Elsa Margarida Rodrigues, Fausta Cardoso Pereira, Fernando José Rodrigues, Inês Botelho, Inês Fonseca Santos, João Eduardo Ferreira, João Paulo Silva, Luís Mourão, Paulo Assim, Paulo Kellerman, Paulo Moreiras, Raquel Ochoa, Sara Monteiro, and Sílvia Alves.

“The day of the salamander”

Teresa is once again awake in the chambers of the Monastery of Batalha. It is the ninth night since the cataclysm in Lisbon and stifling the memory becomes ever more difficult.