Portugal Guide: Alentejo

Alentejo scenery, with storks, Portugal

Classic, rolling, corky Alto Alentejo scenery apart from the storks on sticks. Pictured in the month of May.

The poor and underpopulated Alentejo province occupies nearly a third of Portugal and is scenically the most striking area, an empty rural land of low rolling hills, fields of wheat, random Neolithic stone formations, olive trees, cork trees and the occasional fortified hilltop town.

Baixo Alentejo occupies a large chunk of land in the south, from the Algarve almost as far north as Lisbon and including the coast. This is perhaps the least interesting portion, but also the least touristed and most naturally Portuguese.
Alto Alentejo, the northern section, is the more interesting part [pictured above, on the road between Évora and Marvao], including the grand, varied and colourful city of Évora, the 95 Neolithic standing stones nearby, and the walled hilltop towns of Elvas and Marvao.

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