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The seat of the municipality is the city of Évora, composed by the civil parishes of Évora (São Mamede, Sé, São Pedro e Santo Antão) in the historical centre and the urban parishes of Bacelo e Senhora da Saúde and Malagueira e Horta das Figueiras outside the ancient city walls where most of the population in fact reside. The remaining ...
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The Capela dos Ossos (English: Chapel of Bones) is one of the best-known monuments in Évora, Portugal. It is a small interior chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis . The Chapel gets its name because the interior walls are covered and decorated with human skulls and bones.
The Church of the Lóios (Portuguese: Igreja dos Lóios/Convento dos Lóios em Évora) is a 15th church civil parish of Évora (São Mamede, Sé, São Pedro e Santo Antão), municipality of Évora, in the Portuguese Alentejo.
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Évora (São Mamede, Sé, São Pedro e Santo Antão) is a civil parish in the municipality of Évora, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes São Mamede, Sé e São Pedro and Santo Antão. [1] The population in 2011 was 4,738, [2] in an area of 1.13 km 2. [3]
São Manços e São Vicente do Pigeiro is a civil parish in the municipality of Évora, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes São Manços and São Vicente do Pigeiro. [1] The population in 2011 was 1,302, [2] in an area of 193.23 km 2. [3]
The conquest of the important port city of Alcácer do Sal in 1158, by the king of Portugal made the occupation of the interior Alentejo possible, if not inevitable. [1] Évora was an important city in the west of the Iberian Peninsula and was taken by the Portuguese shortly afterwards.