With occupancy to go back to the Iron Age, the Castelinho of seating town is located on a high point but weak territorial domain, the natural border zone between Serra do Algarve and the Alentejo. Among the remaining ruins are vestiges of Islamic occupation. The most notorious is a small fortress dating from the Umayyad […]
The Southwest Writing Museum is located in the town of Almodovar, Beja District, Portugal, dedicated to Conia writing. The museum is housed in the old building Municipal Movie Theatre, in the historic center of Almodovar. It opened to the public on September 29, 2007. The museum’s permanent collection has about 20 pieces, including a permanent […]
The Almodovar village is marked in medieval Islamic cartography under the name “Al-Mudura” a word that means “round thing” or “fenced round.” The village was rebuilt at the time of the Muslim invasion of the Iberian peninsula, the time it was surrounded by walls and built a castle, whose remains, however, disappeared. At the time […]
The Ourique Foundation is traditionally dated 711, the year of entry of Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. However, several factors point to a rearmost existence. Several settlements since prehistoric times, locations documented by various archaeological campaigns are known. From the Paleolithic, Chalcolithic, Iron Age and Bronze, the proto-historic presence, Roman, Celtic, Arab, a […]
The early human occupation of their site dates back to prehistoric times, later Romanized, when he was called Serpa, living with the road connecting Beja south of Hispania. It is believed that here has been a Roman fort with the function to protect this stretch of persurso. With the fall of the Roman Empire, met […]
The Church of Santa Maria, also referred to as Igreja Matriz de Serpa in Alentejo, located in the vicinity of Serpa Castle, in Largo de Santa Maria or Largo dos Santos Próculo and Hilarion, in the parish of Santa Maria, Serpa municipality , Beja district, Portugal. Its original building dates back to the fourteenth century, probably […]
Serpa village was occupied successively by Romans and Arabs cores definitely being conquered by Christian troops in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. In Roman times, it was a small cluster of secondary importance, signing up in the area of Pax Julia civitas. It was conquered from the Moors in 1166, making to be […]
Serpa is a Portuguese raiana town in the district of Beja, Alentejo region and subregion of the Alentejo, with about 5000 inhabitants. Serpa was already populated before the domain of the Romans, however these were that fomented the county, especially at the farm level. In 1166 it was conquered from the Moors by D. Afonso […]
This not religious monument Vidígueira gained more value when Vasco da Gama, in 1520, ordered to make a bell to put this tower whose date of construction is unknown. In a more recent phase, the City Council has made restoration work, which included the laying of hands on the clock. The hours are still marked […]
The Castle of Vidígueira, also referred to as the Palace of the ranges, in Alentejo, is located in the village, parish and Vidigueira municipality, Beja district of Portugal. Member of the Guadiana line in the thirteenth century, the castle, which remain in the ruins of the keep, have been adapted to house the Counts of Vidigueira. […]
