Discover an ancient and mysterious Alentejo.

Previous Tab
Next Tab
119

Paço das Vinhas

Large and quite well preserved dolmen, located in the surroundings of Évora.

99

Almendres (Évora)

The Almendres megalithic enclosure is the largest megalithic monument in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest of Humanity’s monuments.  It was, as it seems, built around 7ooo years ago, at the dawn of the Neolithic, the time when the first communities of shepherds and farmers were emerging in Europe. The Almendres site, whose [...]

140

Zambujeiro (Évora)

Dolmens are collective funeral monuments that correspond, generally, to the second phase of regional megalithism; they were built for the most part at the end of the Neolithic, less than six thousand years ago. The funeral megalithic monuments that came before dolmens were formally similar although smaller in size and without a corridor and corresponded [...]

Cromeleque de Vale Maria do Meio d2

Vale Maria do Meio (Évora)

Elongated enclosure, open to the east of about thirty surviving menhirs. Deployed along to the top of a slight drop exposed to the East. The standing stones, which result from use of natural blocks without regularization, have very variable forms, although generally ovoid. Two faces of the monoliths have carvings with shafts, circles and quadrilaterals in [...]

Ebora Megalithica

Évora was founded by the Romans in the time of Emperor Augustus. This period is distinguished, in the highest point of the city, by the ruins of the Roman temple.

But Evora is also the center of one of the greatest megalithic regions of pre-historic Europe. The Megalithic monuments from Alentejo were erected in the Neolithic (6000-3000 BC), by the oldest communities of farmers and shepherds in the region.

Today, they profile themselves, indelible, as messages from other times in the stillness of the plain.

Ebora Megalithica is a project of public archaeology. We aim to promote the megaliths of Alentejo as part of a wider cultural framework. We intend to create cultural products based on scientific knowledge, art and communication.

Hidden Sites

27256_349064913236_346710883236_3869586_243778_n

Barrocal

Large monolith with some engravings (zig-zag, circles, semicircles and staff) in bas-relief. The menhir is located in a very rich area, in terms of Neolithic settlement, visually dominating the megalithic  territory of Monsaraz, including monuments like  Antas do Olival da Pega or the menhirs of Outeiro and Belhoa. This menhir  is immersed in a granitic [...]

Menir da Oliveirinha2

Oliveirinha

Large monolith, quite cylindrical in shape. The Oliveirinha menhir is located near several prehistoric settlements, with chronologies spanning from the Early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. This stone is located in a fairly flattened slope, near a water line to the east, close to granitic outcrops. Some 200 m to the north, is located [...]

Vale de Rodrigo 1 b

Vale de Rodrigo

Large prostrated menhir, elongated oval and flat shaped, craved on both sides - primarily composed of circular and subcircularmotifs, serpentine and a possible staff. The monolith stands along the outer edge of the mound of megalithic tholos Vale de Rodrigo 1, on the East side. In the immediate area are known many funerary monuments and Neolithic/Chalcolithic settlements. The set [...]