Private Tour to Arraiolos and Évora UNESCO World Heritage City

Private Tour to Arraiolos and Évora UNESCO World Heritage City

This tour invites you to know Évora, classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage City, due to its excellent preservation along the centuries. We can even tell you that little difference exists between walking in Évora today or some centuries ago. This town has been developing itself without losing its primitive characteristics. That's why it deserved this "prize" from UNESCO.

The tour will continue to the "eternal bride" town of Arraiolos, where you will meet the typical Alentejo village: the white immaculate houses framed with blue or yellow stripes, the castle at the top of the village that keeps guard over the fields of Alentejo, the typical slow pace of its people that know very well the "art of living" and the embroiderers working in the streets making the famous and genuine Arraiolos carpets.

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

Capela dos Ossos

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Praca do Giraldo, Evora 7000-508 Portugal

Continuing up the narrow streets of the old town you'll find the Giraldo square where the Inquisition once had its headquarters.

Stop At: Igreja de Sao Francisco, Praca 1 de Maio, Evora 7000-656 Portugal

Church of St. Francis

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: City Center, Arraiolos Portugal

Arraiolos is where you will encounter the typical Alentejo village: immaculate whitewashed houses with some blue or yellow stripes, the castle at the top of the village that keeps guard over the fields of Alentejo, the typical slow pace of its people that know very well the “art of living” and the embroiderers working in the streets making the famous and genuine Arraiolos carpets.

Named after the town in central Portugal where the embroidery technique has remained popular to this day, the exact origins of the Arraiolos carpets’ technique on the Iberian Peninsula remain somewhat of a mystery.

Pass By: Templo Romano Évora, Largo do Conde de Vila Flor, 7000-863 Évora, Portugal

The Roman Temple, from the 1st century and probably dedicated to the Emperor Augusto but famous under the name of Diana’s temple (name associated with the goddess of the hunters).