Around a hundred menhirs, ten megalithic sets and nearly a hundred dolmens or antas have been studied in the vicinity of the city. They constitute the heritage of their primitive settlers, a monumental exponent of their ways of life, beliefs and cultures.
In the scrubofy of Our Lady of Guadalupe, about 10 kilometers from Evora, you will find the Cromlech and the Menir de los Almendros. These are the most important and best preserved Neolithic monuments in the entire Iberian Peninsula.,
A chromech is a megalithic monument formed by stones or menhirs anchored vertically on the ground and distributed forming concentric circles or ellipses. It is distributed geographically throughout the British Isles, French Brittany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Although some scholars attributed magic functions and rituals to him, it has been shown that they were elements configured for observation of the firmament. |
| After the Roman conquest of Iberia, Evora was founded as Liberalitas Julia, on the remains of an earlier population. It was later renamed Ebora Cerealis, according to the function of monumental barn that its rich lands fulfilled. It was heavily walled and protected by numerous large towers, of which some of them are still preserved. From that time, in addition to the aforementioned walls and their gates, we have arrived as a more representative element, the remains of the monumental Temple of Diana (dedicated to Jupiter, according to others). It is one of the most impressive of the peninsula, along with another similar existing in the city of Merida. The remains of baths of the same era have also endured. |
