Theme Week Alentejo – Elvas

24 February 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Elvas is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Lisbon, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the MadridBadajozLisbon railway. The municipality population as of 2011 in an area of 631.29 square kilometres (243.74 sq mi). The city itself had a population of 16,640 as of 2011.   read more…

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