This is one of two watch museums that houses one family’s extraordinary private collection (the other is in Serpa). You name it – if it ticks, chimes, beeps and tells the time in some form or another, it’s here.
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Once part of the Roman Forum, the remains of this temple, dating from the 2nd or early 3rd century AD, are a heady slice of drama right in town. It's…
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One of ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹â€™s most popular sights is also one of its most chilling. The walls and columns of this mesmerising memento mori (reminder of death) are lined…
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Set within a beautiful landscape of olive and cork trees stands this huge, spectacular oval of standing stones, 15km west of ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹. It is the Iberian…
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The Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro, 13km southwest of ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹, is Europe’s largest dolmen. Under a huge sheet-metal protective shelter in a field of wildflowers…
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Guarded by a pair of rose granite towers, ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹â€™s fortress-like medieval cathedral has fabulous cloisters and a museum jam-packed with ecclesiastical…
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Around 27km west of Èvora, the Escoural Caves contain several cave paintings and rock carvings that date back more than 13,000 years. One-hour guided…
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The former Convento dos Lóios, to the right of Igreja de São João, has elegant Gothic cloisters topped by a Renaissance gallery. A national monument, the…
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At the top of the upper town is the stark, glowing-white, fortress-like former royal palace, now the Pousada de Rainha Santa Isabel. Dom Dinis built the…
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The city’s main square has seen some potent moments in Portuguese history, including the 1483 execution of Fernando, Duke of Bragança; the public burning…
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Inside the entrance hall of the câmara municipal (town hall) are more Roman vestiges, only discovered in 1987. These impressive Roman baths, which include…
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One of ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹â€™s most popular sights is also one of its most chilling. The walls and columns of this mesmerising memento mori (reminder of death) are lined…
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ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹â€™s best-known church is a tall and huge Manueline-Gothic structure, completed around 1510 and dedicated to St Francis. Legend has it that the…
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In a building that once housed the Holy Office of Inquisition, this centre of arts and culture hosts some of ɱ¹´Ç°ù²¹â€™s most thought-provoking art…
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Painted on the garden walls of an open-vaulted gallery are a series of unusual 16th-century murals that were once part of a noble’s residence. Recently…
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Adjacent to the cathedral, in what used to be the archbishop’s palace (built in the 16th century), is this elegant museum. The cloistered courtyard…
8. Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Graça
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Down an alley off Rua da República is the curious baroque facade of this church, topped by four ungainly stone giants – as if they’ve strayed from a…