October 2020 - despite the pandemic and german travel warnings for parts of Portugal, we decided to stick with our original plans from beginning of the year and flew to Lisbon, rented a camper and made a wonderful roadtrip with our 22 months old daughter.

Beginning south of Lisbon at the North west tip of the Costa Vicentina, we continued our trip to the spanish border. Shortly before arriving Evora we visited Beja (I guess it will be part of the Camino Portugues nomination) with its medival torre and churches. Driving further north we could shortly after marvel at the silhoutte of Evora. 

From the big parking lot south of the city wall, one can enter the core zone immediately. The whole town was a bit abandoned and the few open souvenir shops seemed to have no customers at all on that day. We strolled around the town a bit, had some Pasteis next to the roman ruins, marveled at the university, the palaces, took some fotos at the Praca de Giraldo and continued our trip towards east. Evora is a historic town, has a nicely maintained historic city centre, but it did not tear me from the stool.