Portalegre

Elvas

Discover the 8 parishes that make up the municipality of Elvas, Portalegre district.

8 Parishes

20,730 Inhabitants

312m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Elvas

Don't visit just one. Here's a route of 8 parishes ordered geographically for a perfect weekend getaway.

Assunção, Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso

Assunção, Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso

9,059 inh.

São Brás e São Lourenço

São Brás e São Lourenço

1,629 inh.

Vila Boim

Vila Boim

1,052 inh.

Terrugem

Terrugem

1,053 inh.

União das freguesias de Barbacena e Vila Fernando

União das freguesias de Barbacena e Vila Fernando

801 inh.

Santa Eulália

Santa Eulália

1,028 inh.

São Vicente e Ventosa

São Vicente e Ventosa

732 inh.

Caia, São Pedro e Alcáçova

Caia, São Pedro e Alcáçova

5,376 inh.

This route is calculated geographically to minimise travel. Perfect for discovering the municipality at your own pace.

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Parishes
of Elvas

8 parishes

Assunção, Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso

Assunção, Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso

Walk Assunção to Santo Ildefonso where sun-bleached ramparts bristle above Alentejo cork plains.

Caia, São Pedro e Alcáçova

Caia, São Pedro e Alcáçova

Walk star-shaped ramparts at 260 m, feel frontier heat, taste damson dusk inside Portugal’s mighties

Santa Eulália

Santa Eulália

Granite quarries, Baroque naves, coriander-sharp soup—Alentejo soul 17 km from Elvas.

São Brás e São Lourenço

São Brás e São Lourenço

Granite portals, peppery olive oil and 1,629 souls: the Alentejo parish Elvas forgot

São Vicente e Ventosa

São Vicente e Ventosa

Walk Roman stone roads between limestone churches and Guernsey-sized Caia lake in Portugal’s empties

Terrugem

Terrugem

White lanes, 17th-century azulejos and a Cagarral ridge sunset 17 km from Elvas

União das freguesias de Barbacena e Vila Fernando

União das freguesias de Barbacena e Vila Fernando

Medieval Alentejo hamlets stitched by olive groves, plague chapels and silent semaphore towers

Vila Boim

Vila Boim

382 m above the olive terraces, a 13th-century nobleman’s name still drifts through sun-bleached str

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