3D print the Alcobaça Monastery
A free, printable model of the Alcobaça Monastery, its long church with a rounded apse and twin towers, and the town and green hillside around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Alcobaça Monastery
The Alcobaça Monastery is a Catholic monastic complex in the town of Alcobaça, in Portugal's Oeste region. Lisbon lies 120 km (75 mi) to the south, and Coimbra is 110 km (68 mi) to the north. Afonso Henriques, the first Portuguese king, established it in 1153, and over its seven centuries it grew very close to the monarchy. By 1300 it was the richest and most influential monastery in Portugal, with nearly 1,000 monks plus commercial interests in farming, fishing and trade. It shut down in 1834, when Portugal dissolved its monasteries.
The church and monastery are the earliest truly Gothic buildings in Portugal, and the church was the largest in the country when it was completed in 1252. Construction began in 1178, and the monks moved into the new monastery in 1223. In the late 13th century King Denis ordered the Gothic cloister, also called the Cloister of Silence. The church has a Latin-cross plan with three aisles; the nave aisles rise 20 meters, as high as the central one, and the church is 106 meters long. Its columns and walls carry no decoration, as Cistercian churches required.
Many monarchs found their final resting place at the monastery during the 13th and 14th centuries. The transept holds the tomb of King Peter I and one for his mistress, Inês de Castro, a pair of royal tombs of unknown authorship that rank with Portugal's finest Gothic sculpture. The 18th century brought a new cloister and towers for the church, yet most of the medieval structure remained. Portugal classified the monastery as a National Monument in 1907, and UNESCO placed it on its World Heritage Site list in 1989.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 15 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 19 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 24 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Twin towers on the front
- Two small towers with pointed tops flank the church front. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- A long, low complex
- The church and its long wings form a low, wide shape with a rounded apse and many fine vertical lines. A larger print size keeps those lines visible, and thin layers keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Alcobaça Monastery is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Alcobaça Monastery takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Alcobaça Monastery is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Alcobaça Monastery STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Alcobaça Monastery grows with the print: about 15 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
