Templo Romano Évora — Attraction in Évora

If you consider seriously to visit this place just only looking at it in some tourist advertisement brochure dispensed through hotels - forget about that :) and save your money if you are not an archaeologist or some specialist in the Roman Empire - it is not worth the money asked... However, if you have an opportunity to rent a car and devote the whole day to discover beautiful valleys of Alentejo - thus, bravely include Evora in your route as well as Estremoz (if you start that day early in the morning from Lisbon). When you ride through very attractive groves of cork oaks that grow just even centimetres from the pavement (you'll meet them very often on your way), you'll be able to stop at any place you wish and touch them :) - so nice. Do not worry - the quality of roads is very good; there are not any traffic jams in the morning in that direction; and as in Evora as in Estremoz there are enough parking lots (in Evora keep your car at the area some 300 meters before the temple - you'll see approaching to your destination (immediately behind the roundabout); it's a more adequate place since that parking area close to the temple is rather small). And better use toll-free roads riding there in order to stop at nay place you'll admire.

The very temple... well, just 14 granite columns over a well-restored foundation; some Pousada close to it and one more cathedral (the entrance to the cathedral is paid and factually it doesn't have this value :() with an observation deck some behind the temple... that's an exhaustive list not requiring a lot of time from your side even of patient walking and sightseeing. After that you could continue your voyage to Estremoz as a next point within the...

Well worth the detour we took from a nearby place we were staying at. The town is very pleasant. We parked at a large municipal free parking lot and made our way into the old part of town that was once home to the romans and is surrounded by walls from the medieval period. The squares in the town are large and dotted with restaurants. We walked up some streets until we came upon the ruins of this roman temple located next to a medieval church with stunning architecture. However, it was the temple that caught my imagination and wonder. As you look upon the ruin you cant help be be in awe of the skill of the builders and how they managed to move such large stones into place. And yet here it still stands many centuries later. There is a small park in front of the Temple and if you stroll to the walled edge of the park you can see a wonderful view of the town and surrounding areas. What caught my eye was the roman aqueduct that still stands there to this day almost in tact as it was when first built. The was how the cleaver Roans moved water from a source to the city itself. An amazing form of engineering and architecture. Its worth a detour from the A6 highway of your travelling on it to or...

This is a Monument to the Godess Diana, erected by the Romans, more than 2000 years ago...

The "magic" of this Monument is not just seen in its stone colums, nut in its UNESCO recognisable title, as a World Herotahe Site...

Worth a visit to Evora, for a moment of comtemplation of how Humanity so brilliantly leaves us with impressive monumental nuildings, which, even in ruins, show how insignificant we, as ahort lived souls, are just a grain of sand in a desert...

Meaning: we as a Human Race do extraordinary feats, when we work as a Team... The Roman "culture" is a great example of this, and their feats reflected in their great ability to "manage and administrate" extraordinarily large territories, providing good governance and leaving a Legacy long-term by building roads, water aqueducts, bridges, and also places for Prayer - like the Temple of Diana - or Coliseums for entertainment - which STILL stand today, are a great example of the resolve that "People" with a common vision, and behaving as a ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE imprint in our...