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Evora Downtown car rental - Travel Guide |
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ÉVORA is one of the most impressive cities in Portugal, its provincial atmosphere the perfect setting for a range of memorable and often intriguing monuments. The Romans were in occupation for four centuries and the Moors who settled for just as long have left their stamp in the tangle of narrow alleys which rise steeply among the whitewashed houses. Most of the monuments, however, date from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries when with royal encouragement the city was one of the leading centers of Portuguese art and architecture.
Used as a slaughterhouse until 1870, the Temple of Diana in the central square is the best-preserved Roman temple in Portugal its stark remains consisting of a small platform supporting more than a dozen granite columns with a marble entablature. Directly opposite the former Convento dos Lóios now converted into a luxuriant pousada has been partly attributed to Francisco de Arruda architect of the Tower of Belém in Lisbon. To the left of the pousada lies the church of the convent dedicated to São João Evangelista . This is the private property of the ducal Cadaval family, who still occupy a wing or two of the adjacent ancestral palace.
The Cathedral was begun in 1186, about twenty years after the re-conquest of Évora from the Moors and the Romanesque solidity of its two huge square towers and battlemented roofline contrasts sharply with the pointed Gothic arches of the porch and central window. The interior is more straightforwardly Gothic although the choir and high altar were remodeled in the eighteenth century. Adjacent, in the archbishop's palace, is the excellent Museu de Évora, which houses important collections of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Flemish and Portuguese paintings assembled from the city's churches and convents.
Perhaps the most memorable sight in Évora is the Capela dos Ossos in the church of São Francisco close to the bus station. A gruesome reminder of mortality the walls and pillars of this chilling chamber are entirely covered with the bones of more than 5000 monks; an inscription over the door reads, "Nós ossos que aqui estamos, Pelos vossos esperamos" (We bones here are waiting for your bones). Another interesting feature of this church is its large porch which combines pointed rounded and horseshoe arches in a manner typical of Manueline architecture. Appropriately enough the restored Palácio de Dom Manuel - the king who gave his name to the style - lies no more than a minute's walk away in the Jardim Público. |
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