Portugal Travel Guía

Évora is a city, undoubtedly, it fills of magnificent monuments that tell us its history from its origins in epoch of the Roman occupation until our days. Baptized by the Romans as Ebora Cerealis due to its place in full grain-producing field, nowadays sígue preserving its aspect, and it represents an excellent point to begin to know the interior Alentejo region. Évora turned it is this epoch in a ways crossing, the whole modality and like that one are a witness of it at present its streets, a complicated network of streets and squares. In this epoch the most ancient part of the city was constructed, concubine and reformed in the later centuries by Visigoths and Arabs. Scarcely there survive remains of the whole Roman construction of the city. We can still, nevertheless, visit the famous ones It carries gives Moura and the aqueduto gives Water gives Prata.

To gain access to the heart of the city it is necessary to cross three walls that limit it:

- To fence velha: Of Roman epoch, in the heart of the city.

_ It nongoes to fence: Of the XIVth century with approximately 4.000 meters of perimeter and of that almost the whole north-western quadrant survives.

- to fence novissima: Of construction in the S. XVII, the most recent and most exterior of the three, with thick polygonal walls.

Pero Évora is not an only one set of walls. Its importance began becoming clear when some monarches of the country, chose this city like place to establish its habitual residence after the occupation sarracena. This way we meet that in the Middle Age this city began receiving a lot of importance, this way it is demonstrated, for example, by its cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria, which dates back to the S. XII and XIII. The Middle Age supposed an epoch in which this city was a meeting point of many artists of fame, doing that big part of what we preserve nowadays belongs to this epoch.

The main attractions of this city are:

- The Cathedral: I know it about Evora it is one of the main monuments of the city. With a pro-French style, a fortitude remembers to half a church, half. Its tower lodges the sacred art museum of the city.

- Temple of Diana: Of the Roman epoch we preserve part of this temple of the S. II with a dozen of Corinthian columns with base and marble capitals of estremoz.

- Monastery two loios: This monastery serves like placed nowadays. You will be able to stay at some of the rooms enabled for the guests or to have a drink in the ancient cloister.

- Church of Sao Joao: Next to the monastery, he emphasizes for its style Gothic - manuelino and the tiles so typical of the country that cover its walls.

- Church of Sao Francisco: It differs from other churches for its porch with arches of Mudejar style. It lodges 12 chapels and a route crucis of worth tiles seeing in its Chapter Room. But the most out-standing thing, undoubtedly, there is the Chapel two Ossos, named this way because in portuguese osso is a bone, and this chapel is decorated by thousands of skulls and bones of the S. XVI.

Évora offers you a trip for the different civilizations that happened for the Lusitanian country across the testimony that they left with its different works. Just covering this city you will be able to do to yourself an idea of the influence that these cultures have had on Portugal.