Cathedral Square

Construction began on Leiria Cathedral, a Mannerist-style building, in 1559. It has a Latin cross floor plan made up of 3 naves, a tripartite apse, and a cloister with 3 wings connected to the apse. The bell tower, built in the Portas do Sol (or South) area of the city walls, is unconnected to the cathedral.
The cathedral was classified as a national monument in 2014.

References in the book:
“Then the two priests both looked knowingly up at the administrator’s open window, where, in the shadows, they could make out the figure of the administrator with his binoculars trained on the house of Teles the tailor. They went down the cathedral steps, shoulder to shoulder, laughing, amused by that passion which was the talk of Leiria.»
“The most frightening part was the Cathedral square over which Amparo in the pharmacy kept an incessant vigil as she sat at the window, sewing. Amélia would shrink into her cape then and keep her sunshade low over her face.»