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Serra D'Ossa
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Serra D'Ossa
7100, Estremoz
A mountain range with the highest peak at 653 meters, located between Estremoz and Redondo. It boasts a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the insectivorous plant known as sundew. Despite the immense eucalyptus plantation it witnessed in the 1950s and after its fire in 2003, it remains the lungs of several municipalities. It is also the site of the Convent of São Paulo, which has been located since 1182.
Igreja de Santa Maria
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Largo Dom Dinis, 14
7100-509, Estremoz
This is a fifteen hundreds temple, placed next to the Castle. It is considered one of the most important religious works on the Renaissance final phase in the Alentejo area. Its filling includes the tombstones with the most remarkable Portuguese families’ Coat of Arms. The project is accredited to Miguel de Arruda.
Paço Real de Dom Dinis
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Largo Dom Dinis, 14
7100-509, Estremoz
Located on the outskirts of Estremoz Castle, the old Dinisian Palace has been reduced to a small galilee with a ribbed vault, with a series of pointed arches and twin columns.
Convento dos Congregados de São Filipe Néri
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Rossio Marquês de Pombal
7100-513, Estremoz
Built in the early 18th century, it served as the palace of D. Constantino de Bragança, Viceroy of India, and only later as a convent. Highlights include the stonework and tiles, which depict scenes from the life of St. Philip Neri, and the beautiful marble staircase, featuring hunting scenes.
Castelo de Évoramonte
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Rua da Convenção, 6
7100-314, Estremoz
The castle sits atop a steep hill at the western edge of the Ossa mountain range. The original fortification still includes the wall and gates from the reign of King Dinis. Within the walls, the highlight is the Paço de Homnagem (Homage Palace), which, along with the keep, forms a vast, regular quadrilateral. The palace's design is inspired by Italian Renaissance palaces.
Antiga Igreja e Convento das Maltesas
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Rossio Marquês de Pombal
7100-513, Estremoz
A building comprising a church, cloister, and convent area. This former mansion house was a convent for Maltese nuns and a hospital of mercy. It currently serves as a church and is one of the campuses of the University of Évora.
Castelo de Estremoz
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Largo de Dom Diniz
7100-555, Estremoz
A pentagonal castle with a wall reinforced by turreted buttresses. The walled enclosure of the ancient citadel rises around the 27-meter-high white marble keep. Beyond the medieval wall, the town boasts a vast expanse of Restoration War-era fortifications, with crenellated towers and two round-arched gates. Near one of the gates is a rectangular tower in the Roman-Gothic style with several windows. The royal palace, restored by King João V, is located on the outskirts of the castle.
Castelo de Veiros
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Rua Nova
7100-708, Estremoz
La fortificación medieval se conserva en su forma original, flanqueada por torres redondas y varias puertas medievales. Durante la Guerra de la Restauración de 1662, el Marqués de Caracena destruyó la torre del homenaje.
Igreja do Convento de São Francisco
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Largo dos Combatentes da Grande Guerra
7100-111, Estremoz
The transept has an elongated rectangular floor plan, with the Latin cross-shaped transept. All that remains of the transept is the polygonal apse on the south side. The façade is divided into two sections and topped by a triangular pediment with an undulating cornice on the sides. Notable is the architrave divided by three wide pilasters, with rectangular windows with a triangular cornice on the upper section and similar porticoes on the ground floor. Inside, the nave has five sections, separated from the galleries by solid ashlar walls, punctuated by tall, pointed-arched openings with two archivolts. Notable on the gallery's …
Capela de Nossa Senhora dos Mártires
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Mártires
7100-148, Estremoz
A 14th-century Gothic temple with flying buttresses and a porch. Its floor plan consists of a horizontal articulation of the apse with the nave, built entirely of finely cut marble ashlar, with a nave covered by a gable roof supported by flying buttresses with a pendentive cornice and a perfect arch span. The portico stands out, a simple pointed-arch span framed in beveled ashlar, flanked by tiled wainscoting. Also worthy of special attention is the apse with a polygonal front of two bays marked by buttresses, which also finish the radial axes. The interior is lined with 18th-century historiated tiles.