Evora

Evora was a Roman city, then Visigoth, then Moorish, then Portugese, indeed, the home of the House of Avis ("we try harder!"), who were Portugal's rulers in its great years of discovery and exploitation, I mean, exploration. (OK, of just about any town on the Iberian peninsula you can say it was first Roman, then Visigoth, then Moorish....). We were interested primarily in the many megalithic sites near Evora, in the region known as the Alentejo, but Evora itself is of interest.

Amish Cathedral (nyuk-nyuk-nyuk)

Lots of cork souvenirs available, cork everything, really;

but I prefer to get mine out of bottles

Evora central square and church

Temple of Diana, the town's main draw, and in pretty good

shape too

Vicki outside the public library, which was originally the public

jail (tiny reading rooms...)

Old city walls, turret