According to a source from Cultural Heritage, the Convent of Christ in Tomar will get two requalification projects in 2025, totalling 5.2 million euros, fully funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP). According to the public institution, the World Heritage monument project aims to “implement elements and/or equipment to support the rehabilitation of those spaces, giving them new functional values ​​and qualified visiting conditions”.

One official source from the public institute Cultural Heritage explained that the launch of the respective tenders for the execution of the contracts, “whose term should be in March 2026” awaits publication in the Official Gazette of a dispatch that eliminates the project review stage.

“Within the scope of the PRR, [the intervention] in the Convent of Christ comprise two actions: the observation and restoration of the cloisters (D. João III and Santa Bárbara) and the rehabilitation of the Paço Henriquinho and Alcáçova/Castle, plus the requalification of the garden”, the same source has shared.

The construction of the Paço Henriquinho is estimated to cost 3.3 million euros and the cloisters will cost 1.5 million euros. Cultural Heritage specified that other aggregated expenses, like “contracting of projects and studies, the supervision of the work, or the review of prices at the end of the work,” are eligible expenses of the budget allocated in the PRR.

In 2023, there were 311 thousand visitors to the Convent of Christ, a 50 thousand increase when compared to the year before