Golden Plains

Beja

Wheat fields stretching to the horizon, a thousand-year-old castle and Alentejo silence. Beja holds the warm heart of the south, between cork oak groves and whitewashed villages.

84 Parishes

14 Municipalities

144K Inhabitants

01

The Grand Route
of Beja

A journey through the most emblematic municipalities

1

União das freguesias de Beja (Santiago Maior e São João Baptista)

União das freguesias de Beja (Santiago Maior e São João Baptista)

Santiago Maior & São João Baptista guard 228 m of Roman-Moorish memory

2

Cuba

Cuba

Whitewashed lanes, espresso steam and cork-oak silence shape this sleepy southern Portuguese town.

3

Vidigueira

Vidigueira

Sip resinous whites beneath a 1514 pillory as Vasco da Gama’s absentee title lingers

4

Alvito

Alvito

Limewashed walls, lamb-scented lanes and 15th-century silence in Beja’s hilltop village

5

Ferreira do Alentejo

Ferreira do Alentejo

Ferreira do Alentejo

Dome-crusted bread, grassy-bitter oil and slow village afternoons in Alentejo heat

6

Aljustrel

Aljustrel

Walk 30 m underground to hear dynamite crack, then climb to a chapel draped in miners’ copper offeri

7

União das freguesias de Castro Verde e Casével

União das freguesias de Castro Verde e Casével

Bronze dust, whitewashed walls and gilded altars in Portugal’s empty quarter

8

Ourique

Ourique

Dawn light, cicada hush and a 1139 battle that still echoes in four streets

9

Almodôvar

Almodôvar

From Phoenician clay tablets to gilded cedar altars, this Beja hill-town keeps its stories in stone

10

Mértola

Mértola

White lanes cork-scented, river lazes below, castle doubles as phone mast

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All Municipalities
of Beja

14 municipalities to explore

Aljustrel

Aljustrel

5 parishes

Almodôvar

Almodôvar

8 parishes

Alvito

Alvito

2 parishes

Barrancos

Barrancos

1 parishes

Beja

Beja

12 parishes

Castro Verde

Castro Verde

4 parishes

Cuba

Cuba

4 parishes

Ferreira do Alentejo

Ferreira do Alentejo

6 parishes

Mértola

Mértola

7 parishes

Moura

Moura

6 parishes

Odemira

Odemira

14 parishes

Ourique

Ourique

5 parishes

Serpa

Serpa

6 parishes

Vidigueira

Vidigueira

4 parishes

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