This experience will lead you to the best points of interest in Evora and Alentejo's region. Enjoy the best way to know the historical and cultural enviroment at these locations, you will have a truly immersion into the Portuguese traditional products with confort, well planned routes and expert guides to take care of everything.
You are going to be picked up at your hotel, or preferred location, around 9:30 a.m. We will start to go to Evora, before we arrive We'll stop in a Cork factory along the way, visiting and learning about cork production since the seed, understanding how they are leading this industry worldwide and its miriad of utilities.
Later, a wine tasting and visiting a winery (optinal for those who drink alcohol) to know about one the most recognised portugueses wines, the Alentejo wine, you'll be amazed by its flavours and its importance for this community.
After this, you are going to another point of extreme importance, you'll see the Convent and Church of São Francisco, with a gothic-manuelin style of architecture, dating first construction in the 13th century.
Next stop it will be at Bone's Chapel (Capela dos Ossos) where 3 Franciscan monks, on the 17th century, started to construct the chapel and gather bones from other cemeteries in the city, today's Chapel has around 5 thousand bones to be seen. Its remarkable massage of life transition is mandatory to fill up your visit at this impressive location.
Up next you'll see the Giraldo's square, the icon that simbolises Evora's Conquer by the Christians and the city's cathedral, that begun to be built at 12th century, a astonishing Shell-work of the gothic architecture. At this point you will be recommended to taste the traditional portuguese food, with some dishes from the most wanted food from Alentejo. (lunch is payed apart from the Tour).
On the follow, we'll arrive at Evora (World Heritage site) first visiting its Diana's Temple. The monument started to be built in the I Century dc during the ocupation of the Roman Empire in the Iberic Peninsula, being one of the most preserved monuments of this ages in this region.
After this immersion in culture and ancient history we head back to your preferred location, Hotel, Train station or airport, to the drop-off.