"Mertola - Portugal" Mértola by TinKan

Mértola Travel Guide: 28 reviews and 143 photos

The town’s main attraction is its castle, built by the Moors, with a guard tower from the 13th-century. The main church, with its sculpted façade, contains elements from the Manueline period, occupies the site of what once was an ancient mosque. Mértola has three important museum sites as a consequence of the intense archeological activity there. The Roman museum occupies the Town Hall building. The Islamic collection includes the country’s most important archive of ceramic objects (9th to 13th-centuries). Here too is one of the rarest early Christian basilicas in the entire Iberian peninsula (dating from the 5th-century).

Intro Updated Mar 31, 2003
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Taffi Mar 6, 2004 at 1:31 PM

you've captured mértola's amazing atmosphere! was it in the song that sparked the revolution? i thought it was grândola.
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Goner Jun 29, 2003 at 8:20 PM

Very picturesque!
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cbeaujean Apr 22, 2003 at 6:26 AM

tks for showing us a sunny mertola!instead a rainy one,as usual...."mertola" was in the song which sent the signal for 1974 revolution ...
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acemj Apr 14, 2003 at 1:29 PM

I can see why this is an attraction. Beautiful. I love the architecture in Portugal.
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Leipzig Apr 2, 2003 at 8:07 AM

Wow, what a beautiful castle