Historic boutique apartments and venue in Évora

Bypass crowded Sintra for the walled city of Évora. "A better choice is enchanting Evora, a city in the Alentejo region that, like Sintra, boasts a designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Travelers to Lisbon sometimes think Evora is too far, not realizing that a 90 minute train ride inland will take them to one of the prettiest places in Portugal, with whitewashed buildings tucked inside the medieval walls of a walkable town. Evora, which is called a “living museum,” of

Coat of arms of Álvaro Mendes de Vasconcelos, in one of the apartments of Casa Morgado Esporão. Letter from Álvaro Mendes de Vasconcelos, 4th Morgado do Esporão, to King João III. Álvaro Mendes de Vasconcelos, whose residence stood where Casa Morgado Esporão is today, in Évora, was in Naples in the company of Emperor Charles V. The letter refers to the visit of the Portuguese envoy, the Count of Viana do Alentejo, D. Henrique de Meneses, who, on the orders of the Portuguese