After leaving Marvao we spent several hours exploring some of the megalithic sites in that area. Finding some of them was a bit of an adventure as they were mostly not near the small back roads. Each site is a small grouping of large stones (how did they move and stack them?), and each had an entrance on the east side.
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| The surrounding country |
Evora is a bustling city (larger and busier than we generally choose to visit) but with a beautiful cathedral and some fascinating museums.
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| Valentine's Day dinner |
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| Cathedral's cloister |
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| Reliquary |
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| Roman ruins |
A fascinating and somewhat unique museum is the Chapel of Bones in the old Convent and Church of Saint Francis. The chapel was constructed in the 17th century from the bones of thousands of former residents of the convent. An inscription above the entrance reads “We bones that are here, for yours we wait.”
And a couple of street scenes in Evora.
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