"Liberalitas Julia vs Yeborah" a Évora Travel Page by johnsakura

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Main Square Praça do Giraldo Evora Portugal

Brief guide to the city:

If you want to discover the amazing city inside the Roman castle walls, you should really start your journey where all the city's narrow streets end (hehehe almost), i'm talking about the Praça do Giraldo, main square. You may then visit some of the most important monuments in the city's history: the Roman Temple (2nd century AD), the Cathedral (12th-13th centuries), the Convento dos Lóios (a 15th-century monastery), the churches of São Francisco (15th-16th centuries)and its Bone Chapel, going to Nossa Senhora da Graça church(16th century), Largo das Portas de Moura (the square where the great humanist Garcia de Resende lived) and Évora University (founded in the 16th century). In a nutshell, almost every single art style existed in Western civilization can be seen in the city's architecture...just amazing I say...wonderful to live in a place like this.

Liberalitas Julia to Yeborah

The city has more than two millennia of history, its narrow streets evoking memories of the Moorish presence, conquered by the Romans in 59 BC, it took the name of “Liberalitas Julia”.
Under the occupation of the Romans, Évora gained great importance as a city, a fact which is clearly borne out by the various remains from that period that are still visible today, There are very few remains left from the Visigothic period (between the 5th and the 8th century). After this came the period of Moorish domination, beginning with the conquest of the city by Tarik, which lasted until the Christian reconquest in the twelfth century. Yeborah, as the city became known, perfected its early defensive system and indelibly established traces of the Moorish influence in its toponymy, clearly visible in the Moorish quarter.
The city was chosen by several kings of Portugal in the first and second dynasties to serve as the headquarters for their court, and it was greatly enriched with palaces and monuments, especially in the reigns of D. João II and D. Manuel I (15th and 16th centuries).
As the years pass I just feel more attached to this type of life. The way the street look like, and the lamps look at night. The way the Cathedral stands up for the white landscape all across the city walls. Just amazing to be inside a living castle day by day.