União das freguesias de Tomar (São João Baptista) e Santa Maria dos Olivais

The parish of the city of Tomar, home to 16,932 inhabitants (2021), where the Convento de Cristo, the castle and the historic centre are to be found.

Tomar (São João Baptista) e Santa Maria dos Olivais, known as União das Freguesias de Tomar, is the parish of the city of Tomar, covering 30.38 km² and home to 16,932 inhabitants (2021). It was created during the administrative reorganisation of 2012/2013, through the merger of the former parishes of São João Baptista and Santa Maria dos Olivais, which had themselves been established in 1933 from the division of the old parish of Tomar. Within the territory of the former São João Baptista lie the Convento de Cristo (Convent of Christ) and the Castelo de Tomar, the Igreja de São João Baptista (the mother church), the Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, the former Sinagoga, the Aqueduto dos Pegões, the Igreja de São Francisco, the Mata Nacional dos Sete Montes, the Paços do Concelho and the pillory. Every four years, the streets of the city come alive with the procession of the Festa dos Tabuleiros.