Lisbon Private Tour Évora and Monsaraz

Lisbon Private Tour Évora and Monsaraz

Visit Évora only for the beauty of the city. But its location makes it an ideal starting point to visit the Alentejo of cities, towns and landscapes; taste its gastronomy; know its history; rest or be radical in the plain or the sea.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Capela dos Ossos, Praca 10 de Maio 4, Evora 7000-650 Portugal

The Chapel of the Bones, instituted in the century. XVII, is a tourist attraction, located inside the Convent of St. Francis in Évora. It is a set in which prevails macabre vision of bones, geometrically arranged on walls, vaults and columns without leaving any space to fill. Meticulously arranged, the bones serve as coatings.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Cathedral of Evora (Se Catedral de Evora), Largo do Marques de Marialva, Evora 7000-809 Portugal

Cathedral of classical Gothic style, founded in 1186, it is the largest Cathedral in Portuguese territory, about 80 meters long and vaults thrown at 19 meters high. The top of the corochéu rises more than 30 meters as a political emblem of royal power.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Templo Romano de Evora (Templo de Diana), Largo do Conde de Vila Flor Dentro da Muralha, Evora 7000-804 Portugal

It is the most famous Roman Temple in Portugal, and one of the most celebrated of the Iberian Peninsula, built in the dominant point of the acropolis of Ebor, this temple would be the main element of the set of Roman walls that surrounded Évora, being built in the first decades of the Sec. I

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Praca do Giraldo, Evora 7000-508 Portugal

Praça do Giraldo is an icon of honor to Geraldo Geraldes, the "No Fear", because it conquered Évora to the Moors in 1167. In appreciation for this enormous achievement, D. Afonso Henriques named him mayor of the city and frontier Alentejo, a region that would help to conquer.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Monsaraz Castle and Walls, Largo do Castelo, Monsaraz 7200-175 Portugal

The Castle of Monsaraz was built by D. Dinis in 1310 on an existing defensive structure that began with a prehistoric castro and later with Roman, Visigoth and Arab buildings. At the time of the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, during the reign of D. Afonso Henriques, this castle was conquered but would again fall into the hands of the Muslims, so that only in the reign of King Sancho II, in 1232, to definitively pass for Portuguese possession.
Neighboring the Guadiana River and the Alqueva Dam, it stands on the mountain Monsaraz, dominating the medieval village and the border with Spain.

Duration: 2 hours