Cistermúsica - Alcobaça Music Festival 2026

Alcobaça, a place of pilgrimage for music lovers…… wrote the “Público” newspaper in 2015, confirming Cistermúsica as one of the most prestigious and consolidated classical music festivals in Portugal.Organized by ABA – Banda de Alcobaça, Associação de Artes, with the institutional support of the Municipality of Alcobaça and the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts, Cistermúsica provides a cultural program of excellence, decentralized and accessible, with some of the best music and dance interpreters, on the national and international scene.Over the course of 30 years, the festival has had as its mission the development of new audiences for music, and for the arts in general, as well as the enhancement of heritage, not only the musical and immaterial, but also the architectural historic heritage, whose fruition and public knowledge has driven.The connection to heritage is immediately evident in the designation of the festival, which refers to the Cistercian heritage and the stages where it is presented, whose epicenter is the Monastery of Alcobaça (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and its multiplicity of spaces, some of which are only accessible to the public on this occasion.