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TTIK MONASTERY AT ALCOI'.ACA 



Built by Affonzo Henriquez, the liberator, to commemorate the Portuguese defeats of the 

 Moors. The buildings are now used as oar racks. The most striking objects in the Chapel of 

 Tombs are two magniiicent sarcophagi in florid decorated Gothic. The recumbent figures of 

 king and queen upon them, as fair and perfect as the day they were sculptured, rest, not hand 

 in hand as upon most similar tombs, but foot to foot. These are the sepulchers of Pedro the 

 Just and Ines de Castro, for the faithful king ordered the body of himself and his beloved to 

 be laid thus, so that when the universal trumpet should call him to arise, the first object upon 

 which his reopened ayes should rest would be her, who, though unwed, war yet his wife 

 through all eternity (see page 889). 



