Chapel of Bones Evora
The Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones) is a small chapel inside the Church of St Francis, with walls and columns lined with the bones and skulls of approximately 5,000 monks. Entry is a modest fee.
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Evora
Also known as Évora
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Evora rewards walkers, and walking here is free: the entire UNESCO-listed historic core is compact, so a slow loop past the Roman Templo Romano, the marble fountain on Praca do Giraldo, and the medieval walls costs nothing but an afternoon. The Capela dos Ossos, that startling chapel lined with the bones of around 5,000 of the town’s medieval dead, asks only a few euros, and the Almendres Cromlech stone circle a short way west of town is free to wander and older than Stonehenge. Roughly 90 minutes from Lisbon by train, it makes a cheap day trip or a quiet, low-cost base for the wider Alentejo, with Setubal and Sintra reachable on the same regional rail. Come in spring or autumn rather than high summer, when the plains turn brutally hot and shoulder-season rooms run noticeably cheaper.
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Evora Old Town
Evora is a UNESCO-listed walled town in the Alentejo region of Portugal, with a Roman temple, a medieval cathedral, a bone chapel, and whitewashed streets. Free to walk.
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