Points of Interest
- Lisbon
- Sintra, Cascais, & Estoril
- Between Lisbon & Porto
- Porto and the North
- Eastern Portugal
- Evora and The Alentejo
- Southern Portugal and the Algarve
Travel to Evora with Heritage Tours Private Travel
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Evora is certainly among Portugal’s most visited towns. While Evora can be visited as a daytrip from Lisbon, we suggest spending a few days here and to use it as a springboard for Eastern Portugal and the Alentejo.
Evora is a textbook example of the layers of civilizations and history in Portugal. The hilltop city was founded by the ancient Lusitanians. Its Roman past is evoked in a magnificent second-century Corinthian temple. The Visigoths slept here. The Moorish legacy is manifest in its castle and its narrow whitewashed alleys. The Gothic Cathedral (largest in Portugal) was built to remind all of the permanence of the Catholic Reconquest. The Renaissance bequeathed us a city of elegant stone palaces and mansions.
Evora is also a gateway to Eastern Portugal with its market towns, Renaissance castles, prehistoric sites and the wealth of other goodies that dot the Portuguese landscape.
South of Evora is the sun-drenched Lower Alentejo—a thinly populated area occupied by everyone from Phoenicians to Celts to Romans to Moors. Explore a world practically lost in the rest of Europe—a world where sleepy stone villages lie untouched, white storks nest in church belfries, old men play cards all day and widows dress in black.
Amidst tiny country roads winding through endless plains of golden wheat fields, springtime wildflowers and towering cork oak trees, this world is still a place of deep-seated traditions. It is characterized by small scale farming and, more and more, interesting local vineyards whose harvests are creating some of Europe’s most interesting low-production wines.
Heritage Tours Private Travel offers you the best of off-the-beaten-path Alentejo, from our specialists’ insight, to private tours and tastings in boutique wine estates to private cooking lessons at one of Portugal’s finest culinary establishments.
For your custom-designed trip to Portugal, call us at 800 378 4555.
