3D print the Batalha Monastery
A free, printable model of Batalha Monastery, with its pinnacled church and cloisters and the streets, buildings and green slopes around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Batalha Monastery
The Monastery of Batalha, a Dominican convent, stands in the municipality of Batalha in the Centro of Portugal. Its original, official name in Portuguese is Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória, meaning Saint Mary of the Victory. It was erected to commemorate the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, and it was meant to be the burial church for the Aviz dynasty of Portuguese royalty in the 15th century. Late Flamboyant Gothic architecture in Portugal has one of its best and original examples here, mixed in with Manueline features.
The monastery was built to give thanks to the Virgin Mary for a victory won by the Portuguese over the Castilians, and it fulfilled a promise by King John I of Portugal. Construction started in 1386 and ended around 1517, covering the reigns of seven kings. Fifteen architects held the post of master of works, though seven held it only as an honorary title. Afonso Domingues began the work and drew up the plan. His successor Huguet, from 1402 to 1438, introduced the Flamboyant Gothic style.
The monastery was never actually finished: the Unfinished Chapels form a separate octagonal structure attached to the church. In 1810 and 1811, Napoleonic troops under Marshal Masséna sacked and burned the complex, and after the Dominicans were expelled in 1834 it was abandoned. King Ferdinand II started a restoration in 1840, it was designated a National Monument in 1907, and in 1980 it became a museum. UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage site in 1983.
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 | 18 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 24 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Many slim pinnacles
- The church roofline is crowded with thin pinnacles and spires. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every one on a larger print; slower printing with good cooling helps the tips.
- Lacy cloister openings
- The cloister arcades and tall church windows carry fine, lace-like tracery. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep it crisp, and a bigger print size gives it more room.
- One piece with the ground
- The Batalha 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 Batalha 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 Batalha 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 a Batalha 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 Batalha 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.
