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EN - Beja -Tour Alentejo 5 - Travel Tips
Duration – 1 week
BEJA
Travel: Ferreira do Alentejo »Beja: 56 kms
Travel time (expected): 60 m.
The city
The city of Beja deploys on a hill with 277m of altitude, dominating the vast surrounding plain. The field thus appears as a natural border between urban life and rural life. This fact marks the life of this village since its foundation, somewhere in the Iron Age. Ample proof that time is the proto-historic wall portion discovered during the excavations of Sembrano Street. Find the utmost importance, dispel all doubts about the pre-existence of a previous settlement to Roman times; however, we still do not know that people here would neither possess any information about the way they organized the pre-urban space.
Castelo de Beja (Beja Castle)
The Beja Castle is located in the extreme IN the city. According to traditional sources, occupies the early Roman castrum. It is a medieval castle in nature, arranged in pentagonal plan, flanked by six towers, including the Homage. The construction of the castle wall and was due to the royal initiative, when D. Afonso III assigns the Foral de Beja, which includes the reconstruction of the city fortification system, comprising up the longevity of the building process. The tower, according to some authors, can be associated with the reign of King Dinis. The military architectural complex also includes the curtain wall that limits the old city, which, with minor changes, was preserved until the War of Restoration.
The Watchtower has about forty feet high, in the case of the tallest tower in the country. It is considered by researchers to keep of the most beautiful towers of Portugal, in which converge the military and artistic character in a unique way. It was designed by architects or dionisianos unknown masters; however, increasingly believed that was completed in full reign of John I. quadrangular, consists of three rooms. The first room at the ground level is illuminated by three narrow slits, with ogival dome standing out in its decoration composed of bocetes naturalists and Muslim inspiration alveoli. On the east face of the spiral staircase that leads to the 2nd and 3rd floor terrace and a total of 183 steps.
The second room is the most beautiful castle, according to the description of Tulio Espanca "(...) is the magnificent octagonal coverage, warheads and polinervada nervagem, based on cantilevers with fillet cord and capitelação carved graceful and picturesquely with Atlantean figures and angels, the hardest-working positions. Radiating the axial star, coated with stucco craftsmen worked seventeen bocetes of flamboyant Gothic foliage, grant a movement and particular charm to this extraordinary work of architecture apparent from the early 15th century and the reign of King John I, which also reflect the stylistic and constructive Arab influences. "
In the third room, simpler, stand out above all the anthropo-zoomorphic figurative decorations. We also highlight the particularity of the numerous acronyms sites that participated in the construction over the centuries XIV / XV. In this room we access to the roof, protected with diamond tip of merlons, from which you can enjoy one of the most beautiful panoramas that can provide Beja, the plain in its splendor.
In the parade is the Governor's House, a building that has changed considerably in the late 30 per share of DGEMN, in order to value and preserve the Beja Castle
Museu Regional de Beja (Regional Museum of Beja / Museum Queen Leonor)
The estate of the Beja Regional Museum is housed in the Convent Our Lady of Conceição since 1927 and was enlarged with collections from other monasteries and palaces of the region. Among the rich collection of the Museum, highlight the core of painting, composed of works by Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch masters, to cut a section, the collection of Goldsmith, and the Archaeology section, centered mainly in the Roman period, very rich in this region.
Due to its importance it should be noted, in painting, the frameset of the Portuguese school early, and in particular Ecce Homo (15th century), S. Vicente (16th century) school of the Master of Sardoal, the Virgin of the Rose (16th century), the Portuguese painter Francisco de Campos, and a group of four panels (16th century), the Portuguese painter António Nogueira, whose paintings represent the Visitation of St. Elizabeth, the Descent from the Cross, the Resurrection and Ascension.
Contacts and information:
Beja Regional Museum
Largo da Conceição
7800-131 Beja
Phone: 284 32 33 51 / Fax: 284 32 27 02
Site: www.museuregionaldebeja.net
Ticket price: 2 €
50% reduction for students, pensioners and teachers (with supporting card). Free for young people up to 15 years and teachers accompanying study visits.
Free admission on Sundays.
Tickets give access to the main museum and its Visigoth
Núcleo Visigótico do Museu Regional de Beja (Igreja de Santo Amaro) (Visigoth the Beja Regional Museum - Church of Santo Amaro)
The Visigoth collection of Beja Regional Museum, is the core pieces of this most important time in the country, and motivated to Beja the name "Capital of Visigothic Art in Portugal". Was collected over several decades by several experts, of which it is fair to highlight the archaeologist name Abel Viana.
Contacts and information:
Visigoth the Beja Regional Museum
Santo Amaro Largo
7800-263 Beja
Phone: 284 32 14 65 / Fax: 284 32 27 02
Site: http://www.museuregionaldebeja.net/onucl
Ticket price: 2 €
50% reduction for students, pensioners and teachers (with supporting card). Free for young people up to 15 years and teachers accompanying study visits.
Free on Sundays
Accessible to visitors with limited mobility.
Núcleo Museológico da Rua do Sembrano (Museum Centre of Sembrano Street)
The Visigoth collection of Beja Regional Museum, is the core pieces of this most important time in the country, and motivated to Beja the name "Capital of Visigothic Art in Portugal". Was collected over several decades by several experts, of which it is fair to highlight the archaeologist name Abel Viana.
Contacts and information:
Visigoth the Beja Regional Museum
Santo Amaro Largo
7800-263 Beja
Phone: 284 32 14 65 / Fax: 284 32 27 02
Site: http://www.museuregionaldebeja.net/onucl
Ticket price: 2 €
50% reduction for students, pensioners and teachers (with supporting card). Free for young people up to 15 years and teachers accompanying study visits.
Free on Sundays
Accessible to visitors with limited mobility.
Núcleo Museológico da Rua do Sembrano (Museum Centre of Sembrano Street)
The Museum Centre of Sembrano Street includes a number of archaeological structures that allow, even though it is a small area in the whole of the urban structure of Beja, glimpse some moments of history of this city and how the space here was evolving. The archaeological excavations, carried out during the 80 and 90 of the twentieth century, put the discovered traces that extend chronologically, from Prehistory to Contemporary Age. The oldest, some ceramic fragments, point to an occupation of this site dating back to the Copper Age or Chalcolithic Period in the 3rd millennium BC
Activities: Temporary exhibitions. Guided tours, free, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, booked in advance by phone 284 311 920.
Contacts:
Street Sembrano / Largo St. John
7800 Beja
GPS 38º00'47''88N, 7º51'49''14W
Price: Free
Accessible to visitors with limited mobility
Museu Jorge Vieira/Casa das Artes (Museum Jorge Vieira / House of Arts)
Jorge Vieira Museum is part of the artistic legacy of the sculptor Jorge Vieira donated to the Municipality of Beja in 1994. Installed since May 1995, in a building of historic city center, old dwelling house and immediately before its adaptation to museum space, commercial property in the area of restoration, the Museum houses an important collection of sculptures, models and drawings written by Jorge Vieira, artist that marked the route of Portuguese art in the twentieth century.
The permanent collection can be visited on the first floor of the Museum. The reception, temporary exhibition hall and workshop rooms are on level 0.
Contacts:
Museum Jorge Vieira / House of Arts
Bull Street, 33
7800-489 Beja
Price: Free
Not accessible to visitors with limited mobility
Museu Episcopal de Beja (Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres de Beja) (Episcopal Museum of Beja - Church of Our Lady of Beja Prazeres)
The Episcopal Museum of Beja was founded in 1892 under the auspices of Bishop Antonio Xavier de Sousa Monteiro, by Monsignor Amadeu streets to avoid the dispersion of works of art belonging to the preceding monasteries and convents of Beja. Had the headquarters in the old building Bishop's Palace (College of St. Francis Xavier). Nationalized in 1911, its collection led to the Regional Museum, Museum today Queen Leonor. Restored in 2004, the Church of Our Lady of Joy, as one of the poles of Museology Diocesan Network.
Collections
Painting, sculpture, decorative arts.
Featured:
The decorative group from inside the monument, combining gold leaf, oil paintings and white blue tiles.
Activities:
Guided tours in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish (fixing in advance by email or by phone / included in the ticket price)
Free visit for school groups and seniors.
Contacts:
Largo dos Prazeres, 4
7800- 420 Beja
GPS 38º00'55''86N, 7º51'57''86W
Site: www.diocese-beja.pt
Prices: Normal ticket: 1.5 euros / Up to 12 years free.
Not accessible to visitors with limited mobility.
Museu Botanico (Botanical Museum)
The Botanical Museum of Agrarian School of Beja is a scientific culture center, designed for the presentation of temporary exhibitions illustrating the established age-old relationship between man and plants. The Museum aims to preserve study and disseminate knowledge and objects coming from collections and studies, economic botany and ethno botany, developed in Portugal and abroad. Through the study of manufactured objects from plants, vegetable raw materials and natural objects, the visitor can rediscover the ingenuity of man and the creative power of nature.
Contacts:
Botanical Museum
Agrarian School of Beja
Apartado 6158
7801-908 Beja Codex
Phone: 284 314 300 / Fax: 284 388 207
Site: www.esab.ipbeja.pt/museu/
Price: Free
Ermida Sto. André (Hermitage Sto. André)
National monument
The present building is part of the Gothic-Mudejar building tradition. The temple was probably built in the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth, possibly in the patronage action of Manuel. This is a type of building that is some parallels in the Alentejo region.
Location: Lisbon Street
Igreja de Santo Amaro (Santo Amaro Church)
National monument
It is a basilica church, whose foundation seems to date back to late antiquity. Despite having undergone several changes over the centuries preserved still part of the central nave.
It now hosts the Visigoth the Regional Museum of Beja, whose collection of architectural elements is the most important group known in the country. Its existence justified the classification of the town of Beja as the capital of Visigothic Portugal.
Location: Santo Amaro Largo
Igreja da Misericórdia (Church of Mercy)
National monument
It was built in the mid-sixteenth century. This is a very important example of architecture of the Renaissance / Mannerist, strong Italian influence, inspired by the famous Loggia of Florence. It was initially designed to butcher, but his aesthetic impact was so strong that quickly was considered to be too noble for this function, adapting the building the church.
Location: Republic Square
Convento Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Convent of Our Lady of Conception)
National monument
The Convent of Our Lady of Conception was founded by order of the first Duke of Beja, Fernando and Brites, parents of Queen Leonor and King D. Manuel, and was one of the richest monasteries in southern Brazil. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the city of Beja was the scene of major property destruction and this former convent survived only the church, the cloister, the chapter house and adjacent divisions. He is currently installed there the Regional Museum of Beja (Queen Leonor Museum) whose estate consists of important collections, highlighting the of tile, religious art, painting and archeology.
Location: Largo da Conceição
Convento de S. Francisco/Capela dos túmulos (Convent of St. Francis / Chapel of the tombs)
Is located outside the medieval walls, next to the old road linking the Beja Mértola. It was founded in the thirteenth century, having undergone profound changes over the centuries, and are visible elements of different styles of architecture. The Gothic period on a call Chapel / Hall of Tombs, a family funeral chapel ever built in the fifteenth century, which is considered by some authors as one of the most interesting Gothic monuments of the country. This chapel is classified as a Public Interest.
Currently, the Convent of St. Francis is part of the network Pousadas de Portugal.
Location: Largo D. Nuno Alvares Pereira
Igreja Sta. Maria (Church of Santa Maria)
Public Interest
It is one of the oldest churches in Beja and, according to some authors, may have been built on the site of an ancient mosque. This is one of the best examples of so-called 'Gothic Alentejo', preserving the medieval period, the apse. Also noteworthy, the porch, the baroque altars and a representation of the 'Tree of Jesse', installed in a side chapel.
Location: Largo Santa Maria
Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres (Museu Episcopal de Beja) (Church of Our Lady of Joy - Episcopal Museum of Beja)
Public Interest
Chapel dated 1672 to be two separate bodies. The simple façade does not denounce the artistic richness of its interior. Here is one of the most important religious art repositories of the city and a set of tiles with great beauty, composed of historians panels 1698 designed by the painter Gabriel del Barco. The body of the church is covered by baroque carving and tiles of the eighteenth century.
Location: Largo dos Prazeres
Igreja de Nossa Senhora de ao Pé da Cruz (Church of Our Lady of the Foot of the Cross)
Public Interest
The Church of Our Lady of the Foot of the Cross is located in the old quarter of Alcaçarias. The original chapel date from 1499, but the building that now found there was built in the seventeenth century. With a facade "plain style" characterized by austere lines, hardly leaves guess the richness of its interior.
Location: Foot of the Cross Street
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Church of Our Lady of Mercy)
Located within the Great Hospital Our Lady of Mercy, built in 1490 by D. Manuel, Duke of Beja, has changed considerably over time. The interior is coated with gold leaf, and to highlight the main altar and the big screens of Italian school.
Location: Manuel I Street
Igreja do Salvador (The Savior's Church)
Church whose foundation dates back to the thirteenth century. However the extensive renovations that target was being let not foresee anything that period. The main facade is sober and masonry.
Location: Largo Salvador
Sé Catedral (Cathedral)
Although there are references to this temple from the reign of Ferdinand (Church of Santiago), have undergone profound changes in the 16th century. In the twentieth century turns out to be profoundly altered when adjusted to see.
It emphasizes the altar dedicated to St. Sezinando, natural and patron of Beja.
Location: Largo Lidador
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo (Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is located on the site where once stood the Chapel of Santa Catarina, ordered built by Diogo Fernandes widow of Beja, chief captain of the ship of the armed India.
It is a typical eighteenth-century church, with simple facade and gabled topped by spiers.
Location: Largo do Carmo
Ermida de Santo Estêvão (Chapel of St. Stephen)
This is one of the oldest shrines of Beja, having been founded in the late thirteenth century to deposit rider Stephen Vasques. In 1915 it was donated to the Holy House of Mercy of Beja, having finished by function as barn. In 1940 it was restored and reopened for worship. It is a chapel of a nave and chancel, fully vaulted, Gothic characteristic of the time of King Dinis, with notorious Franco-Burgundian influence.
Location: Largo dos Prazeres
Ermida de S. Sebastião (Chapel of St. Sebastian)
Church of Mannerist architecture, popular, with only one nave and chancel. Inside stand out the traces of tempera painting of the eighteenth century.
Location: Largo Francisco Mendes
Convento de Santo António (St. Anthony Convent)
Built in 1609, thanks to the alms of the city's population. In the first half of the nineteenth century is occupied by the Ministry of War and transformed into Military Hospital. Today, little remains of the original period, unless your convent aspect: concierge, chapel, cloister, bedroom and garden.
Location: St. Sebastian Street
Arco Romano / "Portas de Évora" (Roman Arch / "Evora Ports")
National monument
Currently integrated in medieval castle, outside the citadel, this arc has undergone some vicissitudes over the centuries. Some authors point to its construction between the third and fourth centuries AD, integrated into the Roman walls and corresponding to one of the input ports in the city and were demolished in the sixteenth century. It is referred to the year 1938 as the date of its reconstruction, with traces subsisting in buildings demolished however.
It is also known as 'Evora doors' and is classified as a National Monument since 1910.
Location: Annex Castle
Janela Manuelina (Manueline window)
One of the best examples of this existing style in Beja. The window originally belonged to the Carmo Convent, which was demolished later being placed in the current home.
Location: Afonso Costa Street, No 38
Azulejaria de Beja (Tiles of Beja)
By walking through the city streets and the inside of some buildings were not indifferent to the color and brightness of the tiles that decorate. There are five centuries of history tile that also have some history of the city.
Janela de Mariana Alcoforado (Mariana Alcoforado window)
You can visit the Beja Regional Museum (Convent of Our Lady of the Conception) referenced the famous window in one of the letters of Mariana Alcoforado by which felt for the first time, the effects of his passion for the overwhelming Chamilly Marquis rider.
Location: Largo da Conceição (Regional Museum of Beja)
Passo da Rua da Ancha (Step of the Ancha Street)
Copy of the steps of the cross, of mannerist style (17th century). The 'steps' are elements of religious architecture, inserted on the facades of some buildings, intended to represent the Stations of the Cross of Christ, and they were covered in certain festivities or religious manifestations.
Location: Street Ancha, 11
Arcadas da Praça da República (Arcades of the Republic Square)
Arcades Manueline in Republic Square. Time of the sixteenth century construction.
Location: Republic Square
Pelourinho de Beja (Pillory of Beja)
Was ordered to do by Manuel after the grant of the New Reading charter in 1521. After a busy route the pillory was rebuilt in the twentieth century according to the original model, which are preserved some fragments.
Location: Republic Square
Arco dos Prazeres (Arc of Pleasures)
Arch that opened in indefinitely, between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century century, consisting of full bow, double frames, changed in recent times the base for ease of road movement and which was saved from destruction by the poet Mario Beirão.
Location: Pleasure Arch Street
Janela de Rótulas (Spherical window)
Eighteenth-century window in wood, designated as ball joints or trellis window.
Location: Ulmo Street
Arco das portas de Avis (Arc of Avis doors)
The arc of this door was demolished in 1893. Later, granite blocks that formed were discovered in his new role (fishmonger tables of Santa Maria Market), which allowed its reconstitution in 1939.
Location: Avis Arch Street
Herdade dos Grous (Herdade dos Cranes)
Built around a private lagoon, this farm with 593 acres of land hosts a horizon of observation cranes, which give it its name. In addition to all the natural beauty, has 55 hectares of vineyards, which can be visited on foot, by tractor or horse. The ground sets the wine tourism as one of its priorities, presenting their wines in a set of services: restaurant, shop and test space.
Store
Mon-Sun 9:30 to 18:30
(it is by appointment)
Contacts:
Of Cranes Ltd Estate
Address: 7800-601 Albernôa / Beja
Contacts: 284960000 | Fax: 284960072
Gastronomy
BEJA
Meet Beja is also the flavors of regional products here are made. Products that result from accumulated knowledge in time, going back to ancient practices, which also have the "fixing of hands" with the gestures of crops and do not lose the flavors ever. Meet some of these products.
(Sopa de Caçao)
Typical dishes
Soups:
Açorda the Alentejo
Dogfish soup to Alentejo
Tomato soup
Purslane soup with cheeses and eggs
Gazpacho the Alentejo
Meat:
Migas the Alentejo
Stew the Pastora
Cooked with beans
Confectionery:
Bread Rala
Nougat
Queijadas of Curd
Geladinhos of the Conception Convent
Cake of Good Hope Convent of Taste
Hope Convent of bacon tarts
Snacks:
Greaves
Roasted lamb heads
Coriander liver
Carrots in olive oil and garlic
Mushrooms
Gizzards in tomato sauce, olives
WINE AND OLIVE OIL
BEJA
Gomez Cabrera Lda
Fifth St Peter Baleizão
7800-611 Baleizão
Producer of olive oil. Brands La Comtesse and Secret of the Alentejo.
Olive oil producers
Sociedade Agrícola Monte Novo e Figueirinha Lda. (Agricultural Society Monte Young and Figueirinha Lda)
Herdade Monte New Figueirinha, Beja
7800 Beja
Wine and Olive Oil
The company Agricultural Society of New Mount and Figueirinha, Lda. Is established since 1998. The founder is the Commander Leonel Cameirinha and the management of the company is in charge of the founder and his grandson Philip Cameirinha Ramos. The New Mount Estate and Figueirinha has an area of 300 acres of flat land and good quality, near S. Brissos, about 5 km from Beja, Alentejo, the southern region of Portugal. The main productions are the vineyards and olive groves. The varieties of grapes and olives are carefully selected to embody the high quality wine and olive oil, with all the distinctive features of the Alentejo region. The Cellar Figueirinha was built in 2003 and is a modern winery equipped with the latest technology, to meet an annual production capacity of 800,000 liters of wine with grapes from 70 hectares of own production and other local producers. The winemaker is Eng. Sevinate Philip Pinto. With an area of 170 acres of olive groves, in 2006, the company decided to build the mill Figueirinha, with processing capacity of 8 million tons of olives, and produces a high quality olive oil. The technical advisor to the oil production is the Engineer João Gomes.
Adega Cooperativa de Vidigueira, Cuba and Alvito CRL
Industrial Zone, Vidigueira
7960-305 VIDIGUEIRA
The Adega Cooperativa de Vidigueira, Cuba and Alvito, CRL already has more than half a century (1960), the result of the dream, the effort and work of the majority of growers in the regions of Vidigueira, Cuba and Alvito (currently about 300 active members).
It is a "home" which seeks daily reinvents an intersection of "lines" that complement and reinvent. The "line" of the Alentejo plain through generations, was continuous and traces the long experience of the cellar, the "line" that is inspired by the sea horizon of other times, in a vision of discovery and conquest of the future, reinvention and modernization; the "line" of a culture that unfolds the discovery of flavors and sensations - wine - united by the people who, yesterday and today, align all these lines a "line" only the CELLAR.
Because the world is a sea of opportunities as well as challenges, today's global; because we believe that, in addition to inserting in a country that is becoming ever more as a producer of fine wines and also a privileged region, the whole of the Alentejo and specificity of Vidigueira, which has a deep-rooted wine culture, and the very name of the Village its origin in the word vine; because it is part a global concept, the discoveries, while competitive advantage of 'conquest' of the global market, based on the unique distinguishing characteristics of our varieties; because, finally and above all, between the effective wine cellar count up the best indigenous varieties, maintained by several generations, of which distinguishes the Antão Vaz variety, also known as 'caste Vidígueira', producing a white unique and that will be the source of the White recognized the Alentejo, for us the variety 'muse' inspiring, the Cellar, a journey that takes place in acts interconnected their wines on a trip to their region, culture and history, a discovery here new 'sensory territories', their wines.
Herdade dos Grous (Herdade dos Cranes)
Albernôa
7800-601 Beja
Phone: +351 / 284/96 00 00
email: info@herdade-dos-grous.com
The estate has 700 hectares of cranes, 73 of which are dedicated to the production of wines.
The remaining area is divided by livestock production, olives, vegetables and horse breeding. At the heart of this property, is the dam of Herdade dos cranes, with a size of 98 hectares.
The estate of Cranes aims to provide products and services of high quality preserving regional characteristics combining traditional methods with new technologies.
Wines
Herdade dos Grous 23 barrels Red 2010
Legacy of the White Cranes 2011
Legacy of the White Cranes 2012
Herdade dos Cranes Moon Harvested Red 2010
Herdade dos Cranes White Book 2011
Herdade dos Cranes Tinto Reserva 2009
Herdade dos Cranes Red 2010
to be continued...
Post by: António Duro
Autoria e outros dados (tags, etc)
EN - Ferreira do Alentejo - Tour Alentejo 4 - Travel Tips
Duration – 1 week
Ferreira do Alentejo
Travel: Grândola »Ferreira do Alentejo: 56 kms
Travel time (expected): 60 m.
The City
Situated on a small hill, surrounded by extensive plains, the Alentejo Ferreira village is at the southern end of the municipality and its boundary with the Aljustrel and Beja.
Here there was a castle, apparently founded by D. Gualdim Pais, the Knights Templar. Avila, who received a charter of King Manuel I in 1516, belonged to the Dukes of Aveiro and then the crown.
The built heritage of Ferreira do Alentejo, there is the parish church. 16th century, has suffered since its construction several restoration works. Inside, you can see a painted vault in the baptistery and the altar of Our Lady of Light, a board also 16th century.
With about six thousand people, this parish is typically urban, because its main activities trade and services. Agriculture, here, does not play the same role as in the rest of the county.
Capela do Calvário (Calvary Chapel)
From any and all chapels or village churches, evidence is a sui generis the Chapel of Calvary. From bold architecture, evoking the martyrdom of Christ, this small chapel, single copy in our country is a cultural heritage building and became the city symbol.
Igreja Matriz (Matrix Church)
Despite the extensive renovations that suffered over the years, the Church of Nossa Senhora Da or Assumption, already mentioned in the 14th century documents, has in its main front door topped by an interesting symbol of Santiago Order of Knights Sword, patrons of this village from the thirteenth century. It is also here, at the altar he is buried, D. João de Sousa, one of the main and most important commanders of Ferreira village.
Igreja Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao (Church of Our Lady of Conception)
Discreet facade, blue bars, the Church of Nossa da Conceição, formerly Chapel of St. Peter, is the dwelling-house of the small and mysterious image of Our Lady of the Conception that is believed to have accompanied Christopher equerry, noble land, one of the largest in this accompanied Vasco da Gama to India.
Your cruise bow is coated by a panel of single tiles in the Iberian Peninsula, datable 17th century.
Igreja da Mesericórdia (Church of Mercy)
Referring to the Manueline style and the stonework where glimpse pinecones, anthropomorphic figures and stranded, is the porch that beautifies the Church of Mercy that originally belonged to the old church of the Holy Spirit, demolished in 1911. This last, collected also a beautiful polyptych painting, dating from the sixteenth century, also stored in the Misericordia church. This copy can be admired today at the Municipal Museum of Ferreira.
Throughout the village one can see solar and architecture of houses peculiar testimony of a vast architectural heritage of old, despite the advent of the Republic on 5 October 1910 much to be depleted.
Inhabited by distinguished transtaganas families, the current village still retains distinct building parts as will be the Solar of the Friars in the street Miguel Bombarda, the Green House, next to Plaza Comendador Infante Passanha, Home Borges or the Solar the Three Brothers just outside the village. For the most part, are property of the nineteenth century, boasting plaster moldings of facades, windows with wrought iron, with interiors exquisitely decorated by stucco relevados and paintings signed by John Eloy Amaral.
Some of these solar have been transformed and are now rental accommodation units, the Solar dos Friars, and rural tourism, the case of Casa Verde.
Gastronomy
Ferreira do Alentejo
In Ferreira do Alentejo practices the good and typical Alentejo kitchen where sausage, garlic bread soup, the Sado eel stew, pork to the Alentejo, the bread soup of purslane, the açorda carrasquinhas, the famous migas and the gazpacho drizzled with fine wine from Herdade do Pinheiro leave no one indifferent. The crown the meal we suggest the ferreirenses (almond cakes and squash).
(Ferreirenses)
Typical dishes
Garlic bread soup
Pork the Alentejo
Migas
Gazpacho
Tomato bread soup
Tion of soup,
White beans with carrasquinhas
Ferreirenses
WINE AND OLIVE OIL
Alenlagar - Sociedade Exploradora do Lagar de Ferreira do Alentejo Lda (Alenlagar - Society Explorer of Ferreira do Alentejo Mill Ltd.)
Agro Industrial Park, Mount penny
7900-357 ODIVELAS FAL
Olive oil producers
Taifas - Indústria e Comércio de Azeites SA (Taifa - Industry and Trade of Oils SA)
Quinta São Vicente Ferreira do Alentejo
7900-193 Ferreira do Alentejo
Olive oil producers
Oil Quinta de São Vicente, Heirs Passanha.
The essential basis of a simple and sophisticated cuisine.
Fine cuisine and a thousand flavors, dedicated exclusively to pleasure.
A single oil with gold reflections and straw, green fruit aromas and intense flavor, between pepper and hazelnut.
The oil Quinta de São Vicente presents with a natural straw yellow color, a translucent appearance, a capricious fluidity and extraordinarily delicate. Subtle aromas of fresh fruit to escape quickly to make room for more intense and wooded notes. It's the taste that the exceptional and unique combination of Arbequina and Cobrançosa reveals its perfection. Essence of nature and source of life, the oil Quinta de São Vicente is the ancient land of the Alentejo plain, worked by our family over 3 centuries. Herb unexpected flavors, apple and tomato, with a subtle spicy pepper and a delicious touch of hazelnut. Voluptuous and sublime notes that will infuse your palate a sweet euphoria. In terms of gastronomy, olive oil is the most Mediterranean dishes. Now sweet, sometimes robust, revealing the unique aromas of the origin of the olives region, olive oil accompanies perfectly the cold, without fear high temperatures.
Herdade do Pinheiro (Estate Pinheiro)
Ferreira do Alentejo
7900-441 Peroguarda
Wine Producers, Oil, Preserves. Alentejo olive oil. Regional Wine.
The Pine Farm is a family business in which two brothers, Ana beak and Miguel Ferreira Silvestre were ahead of their destiny after his grandfather's death, Antonio Francisco Silvestre Ferreira, an agricultural entrepreneur who arrived in Alentejo, in the late 50 and brought with him a passion for vine growing and wine.
The estate of the dam can also be visited advantage to see all the existing flora and fauna in particular Bitterns (rare species in the country), Cartaxos, Storks Flamingos, Grebes, torticollis, Royal Ducks among others.
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EN - Grandola - Tour Alentejo 3 - Travel Tips
Duration – 1 week
2 - GRANDOLA
Travel: Alcacer do Sal »Grândola: 24 kms.
Travel time (expected): 20 m.
The City
Housed in Alentejo Litoral, the Grândola municipality has an area of 814 km2, an extensive coastline and borders the north with the municipality of Alcacer do Sal, the source with the Ferreira do Alentejo, south of Santiago Cacém, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the north and northwest by the Sado river, which separates it from the Setúbal county.
In geological terms, its territory is characterized by three main areas, the mountains of Sines, the plain and the coastal strip, which have marked differences in soil composition, in relief, the flora and the landscape in general.
The saw of Sines, predominantly schist, date of lower carbon, is the ancient geology of the Iberian Meseta, and has its peak in the hill of the Watchtower, with 326 m of altitude. Forming a physical barrier that separates the coastal area, with influence on climate and landscape aspects, is the least populated area of the county, and is for the most part covered with cork.
The plain is characterized, the source, the extension and the gentle slopes of the Sierra, and the north and northwest by the tertiary formations of the Sado basin, consisting of sands and clays of the Pliocene. From north to south the forest cover gradually moves from the pine forest mounted, and it is this area that lives most of the population.
The Coastal Zone is characterized by its 45 km of white sand beaches and crystalline waters, and the seabed is sandy as a result of accumulation of sedimentary materials. Into the territory, examples of dune systems of various sizes and typical vegetation, extending then large pine forest patches. The Coast there is the Melides lagoon and, further north, the Sado estuary, with rice fields Carvalhal, and the muddy banks and Trojan marshes.
Despite its extensive coast, the climate of this region can be considered Mediterranean with Atlantic influence. Due to various factors, simultaneously present maritime and continental characteristics, often with alternating days Atlantic and continental characteristics. Rainfall is very irregular throughout the year, the distribution of dry and wet years is relatively random, and the average annual rainfall is around 600 mm.
The specifics of each of these areas and poor agricultural capacity of most soils conditioned its settlement and economic and social development. Its population is around 15,000 inhabitants, mostly concentrated in Grândola, the county seat, and in the parish of the same name.
Ruinas Romanas do Castelo do Serrado (Roman Ruins of Castle Cerrado) (next to Fire Volunteers Grândola)
In the first nucleus was discovered, the Roman period, a set of structures, possibly ancient thermal baths, forming compartments each other, with tiled walls Signium opus, formed by four small ponds, a swimming pool and two rooms.
Monumento Magalitico do Lousal (Megalithic Monument Lousal)
Longitudinal plan composed of gallery, rectangular, polygonal and secondary main crypt crypt or niche large, elliptical, separated from the main crypt by passing with septa, and according to an axis oriented east / west, with entrance to this. Gallery marked by five pillars, two on one side, the other three, one large; main crypt with 8 pillars, the largest with about two feet tall; secondary crypt composed of nine lower anchors.
Gastronomy
In the traditional cuisine of Grândola municipality coexist two fundamental aspects. On the one hand, the result of influences from the interior Alentejo, dominated by broths, the açordas, the jantarinhos, the dishes pork meat and lamb and game dishes; on the other hand, the drifting of artisanal fishing activities along the coastline and proximity to major fishing ports, resulting in several fish dishes, such as: soups and pasta fish, eels (stew, stew or fried).
As for wine, we highlight the Pinheiro da Cruz. As for desserts, you can enjoy the alcomonias and sweets of Melides pinion.
(Alcominas)
Typical dishes
Soups:
Chowder
Açorda Alentejo
Purslane soup with cheese
Meat:
Pork the Alentejo
Pork belly rice
Chicken with peppers
Weak to Figueira
Partridge with bean-rayed
Fish / seafood:
Delicacy eel
Moraine of mule drivers
Snacks / Other:
Migas to sawyer
Purée the sawyer
Mass eggs
Confectionery:
Alcomonias
WINE AND OLIVE OIL
A Serenada Enoturismo (The Serenada Wine Tourism) - RIC 1265 -
Andrew Knoll - Sobreiras High - 7570-345 Grândola
GPS: 38 11 '54' 'N / 8 39' 25 '' The
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reservas@serenada.pt
Tel. (+ 351) 269 498 014 Mobile. (+351) 929 067 027
The Grândola strains saws wine with 50 red 2011 years won a silver medal in the International Competition of Lyon 2014.with 5o years. 2011 won a silver medal in the International Competition of Lyon 2014.
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EN - Alcácer do Sal - Tour Alentejo 2 - Travel Tips
Cultural heritage - historical - architecture - religious.Gastronomy - Wine and Olive Oil .
Duration – 1 week
1 - ALCACER SAL
Travel: Lisbon »Alcacer do Sal: 90 kms.
Travel time (expected): 1h15m
The City
Alcacer do Sal is a historic city, leaning in amphitheater on the River Sado, populated by old medieval quarters and topped by a Muslim base castle. Alcacer do Sal is the seat of a large city (the second largest in the country), with 1479.94 square kilometers of area, but only just over 13 thousand inhabitants, divided into four parishes: Floodgate, Saint Martin, and Lump Union Parishes of Alcacer do Sal (Santa Maria do Castelo and Santiago) and Santa Susana.
The county is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Palmela, Vendas Novas and Montemor-o-Novo; northeast, in Viana do Alentejo; the east by Alvito; the south by Ferreira do Alentejo and Grândola; west, also Grândola, through a Sado Estuary arm and northwest through the Sado Estuary, in Setúbal.
A few kilometers from the city of Alcacer, following the course of the Sado river downstream, is the Natural Reserve of the Sado Estuary, which develops over about 23,160 hectares, most of which corresponding to wetlands in particular canals, estuaries and marshes.
Castelo de Alcácer do Sal/Pousada (Sal / Hostel Alcazar Castle)
Archaeological Crypt of Alcazar Castle - Lower Floor INN - Alfonso II
Daylight saving time (July and August): 9h30-13h, with last entry at 12.30; 15h-18h30, with last entry at 18.00.
Winter hours: 9 am-12.30 pm, with last entry at 12pm; 14h-17h30, with last entry at 17.00.
NOTE: The last entry is made always half an hour before closing time.
The crypt is closed on Monday.
Twenty-six centuries of history intersect in the Archaeological Crypt of Alcacer do Sal Castle, inaugurated on 18 April 2008. The underground, dug in the basement of the fortress and the former Convent of Aracaeli Today, it hosts the INN Afonso II offers a real time travel. In a unique atmosphere, you can see traces of all the peoples who lived on the hill at the foot of which stands the city and then left their mark.
This discovery occurred in the mid-90s, with the recovery project of the ruins and their conversion to tourism. Excavations then carried out by the late archaeologist and authority of alderman, Joao Carlos Faria, revealed traces of the Iron Age, dating back to the sixth century BC, as well as structures from the Roman period and the Islamic occupation, covering a considerable area.
In the Convent of the project area met medieval walls and also the post Christian reconquest time, partially grounded in Roman walls which, in turn, overlap the older pre-existing structures, dating from the Iron Age. Thus coexist in the same space findings with over 2,500 years of each other.
Fórum Romano de Alcácer do Sal (Roman Forum of Alcacer do Sal)
In addition to the time diversity, the traces shown a plurality of types. Along with numerous objects, is a concourse with a width of 3.50 meters and at the beginning of the Roman occupation, was provided with a drainage ditch; buildings with some grandeur that can translate the existence of a prime area of the urban agglomeration; as well as a Roman temple whose imbricated structures in an extremely rare architectural complex.
The massive ruins, properly cleaned and prepared, then provide a differentiated reading of times there overlap of the oldest in the fifth century BC to the most modern in the 17th century.
Near the Castle of Alcácer today INN, are two archaeological sites dating back to the Iron Age. These structures are identified as part of the "Roman Forum Salacia Urbs Imperatoria".
The Roman Forum, discovered in 1983, has a great wall built entirely in stone and a rectangular room, made up of white-gray marble slabs.
Everything suggests that these structures extend into the area now occupied by the Church of Santa Maria, and can be built up before a set that would occupy an area of 80x40 meters, corresponding to a "Provincial Forum".
The estate found also highlighted some fragments of inscriptions, statues and pieces of marble friezes frames.
These buildings were also occupied during the Muslim period (8th to 11th century) as witnessed by the remains of housing, food storage silos, water pipes and tanks found at higher levels.
Gastronomy
The gastronomy of Alcacer Sal press for its wealth. Based on the Mediterranean trilogy that combines bread, olive oil and wine, the locals loved him herbs and other products of the earth, especially the lamb, pork and game.
Another highlight is the role of rice, pine nuts and other specialties that seasonally born spontaneously in the fields of the county, the case of wild asparagus, the túbaras or carrasquinhas.
Are recognized as regional dishes: eel stew, bread or potato crumbs, roasted lamb in the oven, fried rabbit to St. Christopher, rebolão potatoes with pork ribs, lamb stew, purslane soup, fish soup, bass grilled, mass fish, seasoned beans, bread soup (diversified dish that you can eat with: olives, cod, grapes, figs, fried fish, hake, sardines or clams). Also noteworthy are the traditional manufacture products such as sausages and sheep cheeses, which are greatly appreciated.
The Alcacer do Sal of gastronomy displays still the convent sweets. Are famous their revenues (some secret) in which the quality of foodstuffs was combined with the mastery of Makers to produce exquisite palates. We must certainly not help but enjoy the pinhoadas, the pie pine nuts, sweets eggs, honey cake, the curd cheesecake, the salatinos, the real cake and bean cakes and almond.
WINE AND OLIVE OIL
Alcacer do Sal
Herdade da Comporta
Holds space, EN 253, 1 km
7580-682 Comporta
Alcacer do Sal
Tel .: 265 499 900
Fax: 265 497 547
Email: adega@herdadedacomporta.pt
Web: www.herdadedacomporta.com
The wine project of Herdade da Comporta is now a success, recognized in several national and international competitions:
Ultimate Wine Challenge - NY 2014
Herdade da Comporta Tinto 2011-91 points
Chão das Rolas Tinto 2013-90 points
Wine Enthusiast Magazine 2013
Parus Tinto 2010-92 points
Parus White 2011-91 points
Parus Tinto 2011-90 points
Parus White 2012-90 points
Herdade da Comporta Tinto 2009-87 points
Chão das Rolas Tinto 2012-85 points
International Wine Challenge 2013
Herdade da Comporta Red 2009 - Silver Medal
Floor of the White Doves 2013 - Bronze Medal
Chão das Rolas Tinto 2013 - Recommended
Herdade do Portocarro (Homestead Portocarro)
Apartado 2023- Sao Romao do Sado
7595-040 Torrão
Email: capitao2@kanguru.pt
Head: José A. L. Mota Captain
The red wine "Crazy Horse 2009" Portocarro of the Estate, the Alcacer do Sal municipality was considered the best Portuguese red wine and obtained the best classification in all categories of wines that were tendered in an organization of Vestigius Wine Bar, Lisbon , and joined six experts, independent and prestigious, who evaluated 160 Portuguese wines references, spread over seven categories, and classified by us points. The proof that distinguished the local wine held from 26 to 30 March 2010
Herdade das Soberanas (Estate of Sovereign)
Monte Sovereign Low (Estate)
7595-077 Torrão
Alcacer do Sal
Tel .: 213844299
Fax: 213878419
With the 2006 harvest, was born the XS, which demonstrates the excellence of our grapes and the typical features of their profile.
We assume the XS with total freedom batch composition from year to year of the existing red varieties in our vineyard in particular Alicant Bouschet, Trincadeira, Aragonese, Alfrocheiro and Ink Caiada. Matures twelve months in French oak barrels and stainless steel vats and makes a bottle stage, which can go up to twelve months, where he acquired a great complexity, before going to market.
It is produced every year.
Awards:
- Commended Medal, International Wine Challenge 2010, England
- Gold Medal, Competition MUNDUSvini International Wine Academy 2010, Germany
- Gold Medal, China Sommeliers Wine Challange 2012, Shanghai
Herdade da Monteira (Homestead Monteira)
Homestead Monteira - Apartado 74
7580-320
Tel. 932705007
Email: terrasdecaminha@gmail.com
Along the Alcacer do Sal, Herdade da Monteira develops his vineyard with high tree density in 4 acres of sandy soil.
24,000 plants of Albariño grape varieties, Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca give rise to wines of complex aromas, floral notes, great structure and high quality acidity, intense aromatic notes and long finish.
The Monteira the Estate wines are the result of various transformation processes made with great accuracy and with great dedication and passion
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