{"id":2252,"date":"2023-11-29T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.pestana.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:41:28","slug":"convento-evora-pousada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.pestana.com\/en\/convento-evora-pousada\/","title":{"rendered":"Pousada Convento \u00c9vora"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Anyone arriving at the Convento \u00c9vora Pousada<\/a> by car can leave it parked until checkout time: the hotel is ideally located and most sightseeing can be done on foot. With the Gothic cathedral on one side and the Roman temple on the other, it’s only five minutes to the main square (Pra\u00e7a do Giraldo). The pousada is in the very heart of a city-museum, capital of the Alto Alentejo region and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The place is a well-hidden secret and larger than it looks from the street. The original building dates back to the 15th century, when King Jo\u00e3o II ordered the construction of the S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o Evangelista monastery on land that belonged to the city’s old castle. Arab in origin, the remaining walls are now part of the pousada. No stranger to misfortune, the castle had already endured a serious fire during the dynastic crisis of 1383-1385, and later, with the monastery rechristened Loios convent, it was seriously affected by the great earthquake of 1755, which decimated parts of \u00c9vora. With the dissolution of the monasteries in 1834, the building was left uninhabited for over 100 years. In 1922, it was classified as a national monument and, in the 1960s, converted into a historic pousada<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/section>\r\n\n\n\t\t