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| Sort by: | All |  Jewish Heritage | 6 Nights (min)
Price It | | Combine Porto, Evora and Tomar with rent a car.
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| Castle Roads | 7 Nights (min)
Price It | | Combine Lisbon, Albufeira, Beja and Evora with rent a car.
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| Portuguese Adventure | 9 Nights (min)
Price It | | Combine Lisbon, Evora, Guimaraes, Viana do Castelo, Porto and Fatima with rent a car. (Alentejo_and_Ribatejo Vacations) |
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| Alentejo and Ribatejo Cities |
Beja
Beja is a town full of history. It was founded Julius Caesar and named back then Pax Julia. After the barbarian invasions, it became a Visigoth city with the name of Paca. In the beginning of the 8th century, it fell into Muslim rule, renamed Beja. The town rises like a pyramid above the surrounding fields of wheat. Beja is famous for the Lettres Portugaises published in Paris in 1669.
The letters were written by a young nun named Soror Mariana Alcoforado who is said to have fallen in love with a French military officer.
| Book this City | Elvas
Close to Badajoz in Spain, Elvas is a Portuguese municipality, an Episcopal city and frontier fortress of Portugal. Surnamed the "city of plums," Elvas is an outstanding example of 17th-century fortifications, with gates, curtain walls, moats, bastions. Just outside of the walls there is an amazing aqueduct looking almost like more fortifications but carrying only a very narrow water channel. Arab arches can be seen at several places in the old streets and offer magnificent views. | Book this City | Estremoz
Rising from the plain like a pyramid of salt set out to dry in the sun, fortified Estremoz is best known as one of three 'marble' cities. It's easy to know why: the public toilets, the pavements and the stairs in quite humble buildings are made from marble. The monumental area above the city is very attractive. Saturday brings a large market that worth a visit. Here, you can taste the local ewe's and goat milk cheeses. The ewe's milk cheese is a tasty and long-lasting alternative to Parmesan. | Book this City | Evora
The capital of Alto Alentejo, Évora, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, an architectural phenomenon blending styles from Mudejar to Manueline to Roman to rococo. Évora is a living museum with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century houses, cobblestones, labyrinthine streets, arcades, squares and Moorish-inspired arches. There are numerous palaces and convents and an aqueduct which dates to 1537. Évora will still your heart with its beauty and its charm. | Book this City | Tomar
Historic, Tomar was bound to the fate of the quasi-religious order of the Knights Templar and attracts annually many tourists with its diversified monuments. The Castle and Convent of the Order of Christ is the main monument of the city and a Unesco World Heritage Site. Other important sights are: the Church of Santa Maria Olival ? built for the burial of the Templar Knights, the Tomar Medieval Synagogue, the Church of Saint John the Baptist, the renaissance Chapel of Our Lady of the Conception. | Book this City |
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