Passage of automà ³ vel - approach Extensão 135 km

This stroll for the Alentejo is initiated in Estremoz. The city deserves a look the part, razão for which serà ¡ related in the Pará ¡ ginas following. A visited time this old praça-fort, let us direct us for Sousel.

A little before, a shunting line the left designates the White House and Pipe. Situated in the edge of the ribeira of Alcorrego, this é povoação older of concelho. Front to the garden, the first church, of séc. XVII, with windows of drawn in forged iron. More ahead, the White House, in the right edge of the ribeira of Almafade, tÃpica alentejana village. It was capelania priorato and of the Order of Aviz. In the interior of the first church, a chapel-mor in me ¡ rmore colored.

We come back EN 245 to reach Sousel, crossing most extensive and commanded olivais of paÃs. Although the antiquity (charter of 1285), the village testifies only the opulência of famÃlias latifundià ¡ laughs recent, através of its houses solarengas: the seiscentistas of the Teles de Matos and the most recent Cardoso de Lemos and of the Bastos Ribeiro, the entrance of povoação. Isolated in the top of a mountain of one cabeço, the Inn of S. Miguel, três quilà ³ meters of the village. Hotelaria of quality and preços to condizer. Aà we are in them in the way of a quiet calm, with sight on quilà ³ meters of planÃcie.

We cross Border. € saÃda, a chapel whose adro constitutes mirante beauty on the ribeira of Avis and a fluvial beach.

Little before Alter, cut the right for Cabeço de Vide (in £o to confuse with Castle of Vide). In the top of a mountain houses appear caiadas with cercaduras blue-marine or turquoise, with pots of sardinheiras. The gio tower of one relà ³ and a granite pillory with four meters opens way the circular wall, everything what it remains of the castle, and aà we have one of the most surprising miradouros of Portugal. The panorama encloses Portalegre, Alter of the Pedroso, Avis, Sousel, Estremoz, Border.
In low it is the most extensive Rossio of paÃs, 600 landscaped meters, invitation to one plà ¡ cido afternoon end. In the top of the Rossio they coexist the Chapel of the EspÃrito Saint, of ship in border ³ badas ogivais, a visor ¡ rutting of séc. XVIII and a discoteca.

In the Plaza of the EspÃrito Saint, a beautiful cruise in me ¡ rmore, encimado for one figure of Christ and another one of the Pietà ¡.

Soon the entrance of povoação must follow the plate indicating € œ Termas⠀  and € œ Estação⠀ . This espelha the attitude of the CP before the desactivadas lines. ‰ small jà ³ went the way of degradação, with culos windows and pinà ¡ in would sing of granite; in the walls, painéis of tile with reasons bucà ³ heddles, signed € œ Battistini 1933⠀ .
Prà ³ ximo, in the valley of the Ribeira de Vide, is the spas of the Sulfúrea, opened of May the October, with ¡ guas recommended in the treatment of reumatismos and doenças of the bladder and kidneys. The Romans têiam used them, but the thermal establishment was rebuilt in 1885, in the reign of D. Peter V. Has a leafy park that it invites the stopping.

Returned EN 245, we arrive the Alter of the Chão. Abelterium call for the Romans, was estratégico crossing of três military ways that bound to Lisbon ME the ©rida one. Emperor Adriano têia it destruÃdo due to loyalty. D. Alfonso III ordered to reconstruct it. D. Peter I established the Castle to it, in 1359. One aparição stranger, as if, in Lisbon, the Castle of São Jorge if pointed out in the way it Rossio. Soon if vê that it could never have been ortaleza but only edifÃcio for shelter of gentlemen. Of austere lines, of it five towers, três rectangulares and two cilÃndricas emerge, between them of house arrest under bail, with 40 meters.

Hà ¡ who calls the village to € œ Alter the Chão Barroco⠀ , because in it if it expands this style during séculos XVII and XVIII, wants in the religious architecture wants in the profane one. Rutting of a is distinguished the Visor ¡  lamo, in the Plaza of the Fontinha, next to the castle, acquired for the MunicÃpio and where the gallery of art, the library and the rank of tourism function; the Visor ¡ rutting Brito Man, the House Boiler, the Visor ¡ rutting of the Condes de Alter (in the Santarém streets and of the Arcs), where if impõem would sing they in granite and the railings in forged iron.
In the Visor ¡ rutting of a  lamo, construÃdo in 1732 for Diogo de Vasconcelos, can be appreciated tecto painted and tiles. The Câmara in £o warned, in the purchase the heiress, the filling of the visor ¡ rutting, nor the images of the chapel, for what that one if finds deloused of everything. € right, a beautiful garden with works in box tree and ticas trees exà ³, in recuperação.
In same praça, I takes care of itself in the chafariz ¡ rmore white with one alpendre of emphasizes cultivated, seats in columns of corÃntios capitéis, with brasões of weapons of the village and the House of Bragança.
Mr. Jesus of the Outeiro visits the church baroque (séc. XVIII). It repairs in portão and in janelão in ¡ would sing me rmore and in the sineira tower of four vãos. In the interior, a high choir, the chapel-mor and the vaulted covering, keeping setecentistas tiles, to € œ Paixão de Cristo⠀  in digs and to € œ Assunção⠀  in the chapel-mor, altars in cut and the image of Ours Lady of the Carmo. The church is placed in the high one of the village, in the Avenue Mr. Jesus of the Outeiro.
To visit, peçthe key Mrs. D. Catherine Burrow Bells, that inhabit to the side of the old inn of the romeiros, heiress of avô and the father of the sineira art, that exerts in the first church.
Next to the castle this ¡ the Church of the rdia Misericà ³, with vestibule in me ¡ rmore, border ³ badas with mass work, púlpito and altar in cut. To ask for the key to the João priest. In the Street of S. Francisco we find the church homà ³ nima, whose key this ¡ the guard of Mrs. D. Lança. Aà if detaches a set of images of roca, séculos XVI and XVII. Poor, in the Street of the Convent, the church of the Convent of nio Antà Saint ³, with altars me ¡ rmore and some good works wooden.
The oldest temple, dated of séc. XV, é the parochial church of Alter of the Pedroso, dista village that três quilà ³ meters and é an exponent of the alentejana popular architecture. Of the high one of the castle (ordered to build for D. Dinis) impressive miradouro is improvised.
IN £o the parochial church must lose a visit, looking the key in the store of Mrs. D. Pink Adelaide, that it pedirà ¡ a currency for the box of the almses. It attempts against in the altar-mor in form to retabular, where the golden one of the cut combines with the red of the deep ones. A central arc lodges crucifixo; in the lateral arcs, two niches keep to images of the Virgin with the Boy and Ours Lady of the Rose ¡ river. In the lateral altars. Images Mrs. of Snows, padroeira of the village.
In Alter in £o esqueça ruÃnas Romans, in the Street of the Corredoura. The 20 Jà ¡ quilà ³ meters, in the road for Bridge of Sor, are the bridge Roman of the Formosa Village, quiçà ¡ most monumental of paÃs, with 116 meters of round length and six arcs in return.

A visit the Alter in £o is complete without the celebrity would coudelaria, where if it selects raça of the lusitano horse. Established in 1748 for D. João V and dinamizada for D. José, it supplied the animals of tracção and saddle the real serviços. Optimum perÃodo for the é visits manhã, to be able to appreciate the education of fillies. In a vast place of fetichism it impresses a set of agricultural houses, underlined for zarcão of the doors and windows and the yellow of the cercaduras.
In day 24 of April and first sà ¡ bado of October becomes fullfilled leilões. For five a thousand euros jà ¡ if purchase a good horse.

To equip a horse conveniently são necessary saddles and capable harnesses. ‰ this the work of would correaria of Francisco Days Antunes, where if they manufacture, também acessà ³ rivers for caça. Its conterrâneo Manuel Lopes Bruno makes candeias, almotolias and similars, in the most concurred would latoaria of região.

We leave Alter the way of the Crato. The landscape goes drying, the olivais is exhausted, reappears the sobreiro and eucalipto jà ¡ seated its voracious raÃzes. In the rich zone histà ³ of the village appraises some certifications of its antiquity (in 1270 it received first the charter one, and in 1350 ¡ was headquarters of the Military Order of the Hospitalà rivers). Here  lived D. lvaro, first prior of the Crato, whose túmulo if finds in the Monastery of the Flower of the Rose. Até to séc. XVI the village knew great esplendor. E jà ¡ in this época that if celebrates the marriages of D. Manuel and D. João III with two irmãs of Emperor Carlos V.

In the wars, of the Restauração, D. João of  ustria, the front of a Spanish exército, arrasou the village. então was lost all the rich archive of the Order of Malta. Of this time they remain, in the Praça of the MunicÃpio, the magnÃfica varanda of the Grão-Prior, formed for três arcs in return round with columns, one balcão and a composed curtain of cea rose ¡ and openings. It observes, in same praça, the House of the MunicÃpio and a solar beauty. They still write down the baroque edifÃcio, of religious influência, where this ¡ installed the Municipal Museum and the old setecentista chain, where if it kept the Municipal Library.
The first church, even so very modified, has joint note ¡ vel of blue and white tiles, images of rock of sécs. XV and XVI and an altar-mor of golden cut.

When leaving for Nisa, cut in direcção the Flower of the Crato. In a vast place of fetichism, that was headquarters of pottery workshops, it finds the huge Monastery of the Flower of the Rose. Established in 1356 for the first prior of the Crato, D.  lvaro, father of D. Nuno Alvares Pear tree, impresses for the height of the ship of the church and for the Majesty of its windows and vestibules. Part of the structure fell in 1897. recuperação continues, even so if sacro of the temple has lost conteúdo all. Workmanships of inserção of an inn of the ENATUR, projecto of arquitecto Carrilho of the Graça elapse, that adds it a structure of betão, but allow the visit of the independent monument of instalação hoteleira, creating one day ¡ arquitectà ³ soon nico between histà ³ laugh, landscape and espaço.


In vizinhanças, in the school of the master Tapir ³ nio Mountain range Days, perpetuates the secrets of the local pottery. In case that curious, sà ³ hà ¡ apprenticees of the feminine sex. Bilhas of the famous Flower of the Rose são for hà ¡ bil conjugação of two caracterÃsticas: the freshness (gotten graças to the white, porous and lean adobe use) and impermeability (resultant of adição of red adobe, more fat person and of bigger plasticity). João de Deus é Mountain range another potter to visit.

Before arriving the Nisa, we pass for Alpalhão, capital of the granite, used in an art of it would sing that one meets spread by the alentejanos monuments and é today longÃnquos product of exportação for paÃses. In this locality still traditional beds in forged iron become and are restored mobÃlias. The Serralharia Alpalhense sends regards to a visit. E if with as many returns jà ¡ will have expense the soles, tries to order leather shoes that artesão Jerà ³ nimo Mass it talharà ¡ the measure.
prà ³ spera Nisa of the primitive época jà ¡ if lost: it would be placed três quilà ³ meters of the current núcleo. He fell in the fratricidal fights between D. Dinis and Alfonso Sanches, and the King rebuilt the walls that today lodge the rich núcleo histà ³. The Municipal Câmara functions in a apalaçada house of séc. XVIII; the Church of the rdia Misericà ³ has renascentista vestibule, being the gallery supported for cachorros of vaulted granite and the tecto one. To the side, in one it marries senhorial of séc. XVIII, the edifÃcio of the rdia Misericà ³, where hà ¡ - to ask for the key if to want to visit the church. In praça, the Source of the Frade, in granite, and a pillory in me ¡ rmore with the sphere to armilar and brasão of the village. The first church worthy é of register, reconstruÃda in 1796, apà ³ s terramoto, with altars of golden cut and images in granite and the remaining portions of a straight line ¡ bulo of maneirista painting of séc. XVI. Skirt for the Door of the vain Village and ¡ to the espaçoso Rossio, where they are the rank of tourism and the House of the Culture. In the Praça of the República river finds the Church of the Bald spot ¡, with a púlpito in granite in the exterior of the monument of octogonal plant.

In Nisa the embroidering was joined the pottery and bilhas had passed of me the £os of potters for the ones of women, who, in the still cool adobe, scratch out drawings filled with pedrinhas of white quartz. A visit is suggested the pottery of Tapir ³ nio Pequito, that makes cantarinhas, moringues, piporros and canteens.

In the place of Cabeça de Mouro (Cold Salão, Ribeira of Nisa), the wood with that if they weave canastras It “takes more returns that pão”, as José Roque explains. The poles of brave castanheiro são cut and embedded during six months. São cozidas e, still hot, cracked and threshed. E I officiate it to this of cited cesteiro and its colleague Francisco Baginha.

Leaving for the Door of Montalvão, são 4,5 1cm até to the Santuà ¡ river of Ours Lady of the Pleasures. The half one of the hillside finds ermida the dedicated Mrs. of the place, with a tico vestibule gà ³ of séc. XIV. In the high one Lady of the Graça is the Ermida of Ours, padroeira of Nisa (séc. XVI), in whose interior she finds images in rock. The sight is prolongated on ample panorama, where if they disclose the Mountain ranges of the Star and S. Mamede.

Let us come back the Nisa toward the final stage. SaÃmos in direcção of Montalvão and after that for Castle of Vide - Pará ³ flies and Hanks. We go to make a beautiful passage of the Mountain range of S. Mamede. In front ³ penetrates in a gico circuit arqueolà that it understands necrà ³ pole of Arminho Saint and the Good Death, the MegalÃtico Park of the Coureleiros and the tapir of the Valley of the Road. Skirting the Barrage of the Pará ³ flies, where it can practise fishes and candle, it goes to discharge in EN 246 (close it has the tapir of Meltiça), that levarà ¡ até Castle of Vide.

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