DISCOVER PORTALEGRE: WHAT TO SEE, DO, WHERE TO EAT AND SLEEP

SITED IN NORTHERN ALENTEJO AND INTEGRATED IN THE SÃO MAMEDE HILLS NATURAL PARK, PORTALEGRE PROFITS FROM THE RICHNESS OF THE SURROUNDING SCENERY, OF ITS GASTRONOMY AND OF ITS BUILD-UP PATRIMONY.

Portalegre is both a district’s, as well as a municipal capital. Its cultural wealth is to be mainly found in its monuments and religious buildings: the Cathedral, with one of the best set of mannerist paintings in the country, but also the Castle, the Monastery of St. Bernard of the  Order of Cistercians – with a sumptuous tomb of its founder- , Space Robinson, the Church of St. Francis, the Church of St. Anthony by Carrilho da Graça, the Emblazoned Houses, the Town Gates and República Square.

Monastery of Saint Bernard

One must also visit its museums, such as the Municipal Museum, narrating the town’s history, the Emílio Relvas Museology Hub, dedicated to handicrafts, the José Régio House-Museum, with collections of Religious and Decorative Arts, and the Guy Fino Tapestry Museum of Portalegre, the town’s ex-libris.

José Régio House-Museum

Savour the town’s typical dishes such as the tomato soup or the potato soup, the dogfish in garlic sauce, the sarapatel, cachola (pork meat) soup, the various types of migas (bread broth) with fried pork meat. On the conventual confectionary area, the highlights go to the lampreia, the golden cheese, the fartes (egg and almond dessert), the egg candies, the manjar branco (white delight) and the toucinho-do-céu. The boleimas (a cinnamon pound-cake) and the famous Portalegre almonds are also of renown quality.

Boleimas