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Discover the best top things to do in Evora District, Portugal including Ebora Megalithica Guided Tours, Skydive Portugal, Puzzle Room Evora, Observatorio do Lago Alqueva, Capela dos Ossos.
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1. Ebora Megalithica Guided Tours
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5.0 based on 406 reviews
We have a passion for megaliths. And sharing this passion is our mission.Present day Evora is in the center of an ancestral landscape that has a significance for all Humanity. Here you can find the remains of some of the oldest monuments of mankind in Western Europe.The early farmers and shepherds that created them, some 7500 years ago, didn't just create beautiful and impressive monuments - they have envisioned an entirely new way of relating with their world and have set the foundations for our current way of life.The megaliths, embodying the new ideology of this period in it's fullest - the domestication and transformation of the natural environment - remain today as distant messages, hidden in the fullness of time.Join one of our tours and discover more about your own history.
2. Skydive Portugal
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5.0 based on 376 reviews
Skydive Portugal is an award, by the national tourism, winning tandem skydive drop zone located just one hour from Lisbon on the spectacular Alentejo. We operate all-year-round (7 days a week) and our location ensures great weather conditions, even during winter. From our brand new facilities through to our fleet of aircraft and modern skydiving equipment, Skydive Portugal offers tourists and locals a fun, exhilarating, and unreal tandem skydive experience that is hard to beat. Enjoy the sky on your city break deals!
3. Puzzle Room Evora
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5.0 based on 107 reviews
PUZZLE ROOM EVORA, TIME IS RUNNING… You have just 60 minutes! Are you curious, resourceful, skillful? Come along in this adventure… Gather your family and friends and unlock the secrets that hide inside the most enigmatic museum of Evora. ANYONE CAN OPEN A DOOR WITH A KEY BUT … WHAT IF YOU DON´T HAVE A LOCK? Challenge your intelligence and imagination.
4. Observatorio do Lago Alqueva
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5.0 based on 264 reviews
The Observatorio do Lago Alqueva – OLA (Lake Alqueva Observatory) is an astronomical observatory next to the medieval village of Monsaraz. OLA offers almost daily tours of the magnificent night sky of Monsaraz, where one can learn the orientation by the North Star, identify the constellations and know their legends, relate stellar colours with their ages, observe star clusters, nebulas and distant galaxies with the help of telescopes. The explanations are presented with clear examples and language by OLA’s guides. When the weather is cloudy, we resort to a simulation using astronomy software. The observatory also promotes courses on astronomy and astrophotography and has a vast program of outreach talks and activities for the general public, schools and senior groups.
Reviewed By IdB11_NL - Utrecht, The Netherlands
We had a great evening with Nelson (and other families). He explained a lot about the (newborn) stars, planets, galaxies etcetera. And showed them with his telescopes. He has an enormous knowledge and can explain it very well. And every question was answered in a very clear way.
5. Capela dos Ossos
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4.5 based on 5,483 reviews
The walls and pillars of the chapel, built in the century XVII, are lined with thousands of human bones and skulls. Ceilings with murals realtivas death. Written on a plaque next to the door, the phrase "We bones that are here for your hope", reminds us how fleeting passage through life.
Reviewed By jonahNJ - Pennington, United States
The one place I was really looking forward to visiting in Portugal was the Chapel of The Bones. Once inside this relatively small chapel, it exceeded my expectations! Note that the chapel is small, so there is a staggering of groups admitted to the chapel. However, the visitors moved along well during my visit. Just outside of the chapel is a poem which compels travelers to ponder their existence. If that was not enough of a prompt, just over the entrance to the chapel is the engraved warning “Nós ossos que aqui estamos pelos vossos esperamos” which loosely translates to “We bones that are here, we are waiting for yours." I then entered the chapel and sure enough all of the walls and pillars are covered in a variety of human bones and skulls. Skulls are also used to trim portions of the ceiling. During my visit, I learned that approximately 5,000 skeletons from church cemeteries in Evora were used to “decorate” the chapel. Visiting this small chapel was one of the most surreal experiences of my life and a must see for visitors to Evora.
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