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Roots Earth in Evora: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Evora, Portugal, in Europe. The Evora stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Evora, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: evora.md

The 40 places in Evora with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Roman Temple of Évora
  2. Évora Cathedral
  3. Chapel of Bones
  4. Church of São Francisco
  5. Giraldo Square
  6. University of Évora
  7. Água de Prata Aqueduct
  8. Almendres Cromlech
  9. Frei Manuel do Cenáculo National Museum
  10. Church of the Lóios
  11. Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval
  12. Royal Palace of Évora
  13. Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça
  14. Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro
  15. Church of Espírito Santo
  16. Évora Town Hall and Roman Baths
  17. City Walls of Évora
  18. Portas de Moura Square
  19. Chapel of São Brás
  20. Misericórdia Church
  21. Church of São Mamede
  22. Church of São Tiago
  23. Fort of Santo António da Piedade
  24. Garcia de Resende Theatre
  25. Remédios Convent
  26. São Miguel Courtyard
  27. Garcia de Resende House
  28. 1º de Maio Municipal Market
  29. Évora Public Garden
  30. Malagueira Quarter
  31. Sanches de Miranda Stadium
  32. Rua 5 de Outubro
  33. Alto de São Bento
  34. Remédios Cemetery
  35. Rossio de São Brás
  36. Bacelo Quarter
  37. Évora Railway Station
  38. Café Arcada
  39. Mouraria Quarter
  40. Évora Bullring

Is there an audio guide for Roman Temple of Évora?

Yes. Roman Temple of Évora has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Evora places in the app, at 38.57306, -7.90778. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Evora

Open Roots Earth and choose Evora. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Evora, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Evora, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Roman Temple of Évora

Coordinates
38.57306, -7.90778
In one line
A first-century Roman temple crowning Évora's highest ground, with fourteen granite columns and white marble capitals from Estremoz. Long mistaken for a shrine to Diana, it was probably dedicated to the cult of Emperor Augustus.

2. Évora Cathedral

Coordinates
38.5718, -7.9066
In one line
One of Portugal's largest medieval cathedrals, begun around 1280 and completed around 1350. Its rose-granite mass blends Romanesque and Gothic, crowned by mismatched towers and a rooftop terrace overlooking the Alentejo plains.

3. Chapel of Bones

Coordinates
38.56889, -7.90889
In one line
A small chapel whose walls and pillars are lined with the bones and skulls of around 5,000 people, arranged by Franciscan friars as a meditation on mortality. An inscription above the door reminds the living that the dead await them.

4. Church of São Francisco

Coordinates
38.569, -7.909
In one line
A late-Gothic Franciscan church built between 1475 and the 1550s, blending Manueline and Moorish details. Its vast single nave is among the widest in Portugal, and it holds the famous Chapel of Bones and the tomb of playwright Gil Vicente.

5. Giraldo Square

Coordinates
38.57085, -7.90925
In one line
Évora's main square and social heart, an arcaded space that has served as marketplace since the Middle Ages. Its marble fountain of 1573 has eight spouts for the eight streets that radiate outward, and the Church of Santo Antão stands at its northern end.

6. University of Évora

Coordinates
38.5731, -7.9044
In one line
Portugal's second-oldest university, founded in 1559 by Cardinal Henrique as a Jesuit college. Its Mannerist halls, Renaissance cloister and tiled galleries closed after the Jesuits were expelled in 1759, and reopened only in 1973.

7. Água de Prata Aqueduct

Coordinates
38.57604, -7.91221
In one line
A Renaissance aqueduct begun in 1531 for King João the Third and built by architect Francisco de Arruda. Its granite arches carry water some distance into Évora, and in the city houses and shops are built directly between them.

8. Almendres Cromlech

Coordinates
38.55749, -8.06119
In one line
A vast Neolithic stone circle of roughly 95 granite menhirs raised in phases from about 6000 BC, making it older than Stonehenge. It is the largest grouping of standing stones on the Iberian Peninsula and one of Europe's most important megalithic sites.

9. Frei Manuel do Cenáculo National Museum

Coordinates
38.5722, -7.9072
In one line
Évora's principal museum, founded in 1915 and housed in a former archbishop's palace beside the cathedral. Its collections span prehistory to modern times, from Roman sculpture to Flemish and Portuguese painting, built around the holdings of 18th-century archbishop Frei Manuel do Cenáculo.

10. Church of the Lóios

Coordinates
38.57348, -7.90848
In one line
A late Gothic church founded in 1485 by Rodrigo Afonso de Melo and consecrated in 1491. Its sober stone exterior hides an interior lined with blue-and-white azulejo tiles, and it serves as the burial church of the Dukes of Cadaval beside their palace.

11. Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval

Coordinates
38.5737, -7.9087
In one line
A fortified palace with medieval origins, built on the old castle walls of Évora and rebuilt across the 14th and 15th centuries. Blending Gothic, Mudéjar, Manueline and Renaissance styles, it remains owned by the Cadaval family and houses their collection of art and manuscripts.

12. Royal Palace of Évora

Coordinates
38.56778, -7.90944
In one line
The surviving wing of a great royal palace where Portugal's medieval and Renaissance kings held court. Its Manueline Gallery of Dames is all that remains of a complex linked to Vasco da Gama's voyage to India and the plays of Gil Vicente.

13. Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça

Coordinates
38.5696, -7.9072
In one line
An early Renaissance Augustinian church of the 16th century, designed by Miguel de Arruda. Its bold classical facade is crowned by four colossal stone giants holding flaming globes, an emblem of Portugal's age of overseas discovery.

14. Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro

Coordinates
38.53917, -8.01417
In one line
One of the largest megalithic burial chambers on the Iberian Peninsula, built around 3500 BC. Seven granite slabs nearly eight metres tall form its great chamber, a communal Neolithic tomb set among the cork oaks of the Alentejo near Valverde.

15. Church of Espírito Santo

Coordinates
38.5728, -7.9044
In one line
The church of the Jesuit Colégio do Espírito Santo, built between 1566 and 1574 by architect Afonso Álvares for Cardinal Henrique. Modelled on Rome's Gesù, it served as the spiritual heart of the University of Évora.

16. Évora Town Hall and Roman Baths

Coordinates
38.57241, -7.90963
In one line
Évora's working town hall, beneath which lie Roman baths uncovered in 1987. A circular heated sweat-chamber and the brick pillars of an under-floor heating system survive from the 1st or 2nd century, hidden below modern municipal offices.

17. City Walls of Évora

Coordinates
38.5706, -7.915
In one line
The layered defences that still ring Évora's old town, from Roman and Moorish stonework to the 14th-century medieval circuit begun under Afonso the Fourth and the bastions added in the 17th century. They enclose the historic centre UNESCO protects as World Heritage.

18. Portas de Moura Square

Coordinates
38.5699, -7.9055
In one line
A graceful Renaissance square named for a former Moorish gate, centred on a marble globe fountain of 1556 by Diogo de Torralva. Aristocratic mansions and cathedral views frame one of Évora's most elegant corners.

19. Chapel of São Brás

Coordinates
38.5648, -7.9088
In one line
A fortress-like plague chapel built in the 1480s under King João the Second, just outside the city walls. Its brick walls, cylindrical buttresses topped with conical pinnacles and barrel-vaulted roof make it a striking example of Alentejo Mudéjar-Gothic.

20. Misericórdia Church

Coordinates
38.5703, -7.906
In one line
The church of Évora's Holy House of Mercy charity, its first stone laid in 1554. Behind a sober facade lies a richly decorated interior of blue-and-white tile panels depicting the works of mercy and a gilded retable beneath the Virgin of Mercy.

21. Church of São Mamede

Coordinates
38.57444, -7.90778
In one line
A church of medieval origin, rebuilt in the mid-16th century under King João the Third in restrained Mannerist style. Its painted vault of 1691 and rare green-glazed and blue-and-white tilework make its plain shell hide a vivid interior.

22. Church of São Tiago

Coordinates
38.57199, -7.90906
In one line
A former parish church in Évora's Santo Antão quarter, first built in 1302, enlarged in 1550 and structurally remodelled in 1680. Behind its Baroque interior of frescoes and biblical tile panels survive Manueline crenellations from the older structure.

23. Fort of Santo António da Piedade

Coordinates
38.57833, -7.91556
In one line
A square Vauban-style bastion fort just north of Évora's walls, ordered to be erected by King João IV in 1650 to defend the city during the Portuguese Restoration War. It rose over a former monastery and now houses a missionary seminary.

24. Garcia de Resende Theatre

Coordinates
38.5695, -7.9115
In one line
Évora's 19th-century opera house, inaugurated in 1892 and designed by engineer Adriano da Silva Monteiro in an Italian-influenced eclectic style. Named for the poet Garcia de Resende, it remains the city's main stage and home to its resident drama company.

25. Remédios Convent

Coordinates
38.5687, -7.9156
In one line
A Discalced Carmelite convent founded outside Évora's walls in 1606 by Archbishop Teotónio de Bragança. Its austere early-Baroque church, consecrated in 1614, holds a richly gilded carved altar; the grounds later became the city's public cemetery.

26. São Miguel Courtyard

Coordinates
38.5708, -7.9048
In one line
A medieval palace courtyard at the Paço de São Miguel, rooted in Évora's Moorish fortress and once a royal residence. Later home to the Counts of Basto, it blends Gothic, Manueline, Mudéjar and Renaissance elements and now belongs to the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation.

27. Garcia de Resende House

Coordinates
38.5701, -7.9064
In one line
A Renaissance-era house in Évora linked to Garcia de Resende, the poet, editor and royal courtier born here around 1470. Its Manueline-influenced window survives as a reminder of the city's golden age under the Avis court.

28. 1º de Maio Municipal Market

Coordinates
38.5685, -7.9098
In one line
Évora's covered municipal market on Praça 1º de Maio, beside the public garden. The main iron hall dates from 1880 and the fish market from 1903; reopened in 2006, it remains where locals buy Alentejo produce, cheese, bread and fish.

29. Évora Public Garden

Coordinates
38.5672, -7.9099
In one line
A romantic public garden laid out between 1863 and 1867 on the old royal grounds of the Palácio de Dom Manuel. Inside stand the surviving Manueline gallery, the medieval wall and 19th-century false ruins among palms, peacocks and a small lake.

30. Malagueira Quarter

Coordinates
38.568, -7.929
In one line
A landmark social-housing quarter designed by Pritzker laureate Álvaro Siza from 1977, on Évora's western edge. Around 1,200 low white courtyard houses line gridded streets, threaded by a raised concrete channel that echoes the city's old aqueduct.

31. Sanches de Miranda Stadium

Coordinates
38.562, -7.914
In one line
For decades the home of Juventude Sport Clube, founded in 1918, this ground held around 4,000 fans and was said to have Portugal's oldest pitch. The Blue Eagles played here until a 2025 move to a new stadium nearby.

32. Rua 5 de Outubro

Coordinates
38.5711, -7.908
In one line
Évora's main pedestrian street, climbing from Praça do Giraldo to the Cathedral between low-balconied houses and arcades. Lined with cork goods, ceramics and cafés, it is the city's busiest shopping spine and a daily artery of the walled historic centre.

33. Alto de São Bento

Coordinates
38.577, -7.942
In one line
Restored windmills crown the summit, now a small museum centre, on ground inhabited since prehistoric times.

34. Remédios Cemetery

Coordinates
38.566, -7.919
In one line
Évora's municipal cemetery, established in 1840 in a former Carmelite convent occupied from 1606. Its grand marble entrance portal, carved around 1537, was salvaged from the demolished Monastery of São Domingos and attributed to sculptor Nicolau Chanterene.

35. Rossio de São Brás

Coordinates
38.565, -7.9085
In one line
Évora's largest open space, outside the walls by the Chapel of São Brás. It has hosted fairs since the 13th century and, since 1569, the Feira de São João, the city's great summer fair that still fills it for ten days every June.

36. Bacelo Quarter

Coordinates
38.58, -7.897
In one line
A residential quarter northeast of Évora's medieval walls, grown through the 20th century into one of the city's largest neighbourhoods. Apartment blocks, schools and everyday shops make it the working home of many Eborenses today.

37. Évora Railway Station

Coordinates
38.5614, -7.8997
In one line
Évora's railway station opened in 1863, just south of the medieval walls, and is famous for its tiled panels by Jorge Colaço. Passenger service reopened on 5 November 2006; Lisbon–Évora service resumed in 2011 after later works.

38. Café Arcada

Coordinates
38.5711, -7.9095
In one line
A grand café on Praça do Giraldo, opened in 1942 beneath the arcades facing the fountain. Once one of Portugal's most luxurious cafés, it remains a busy meeting place known for its queijadas and its prime view of Évora's main square.

39. Mouraria Quarter

Coordinates
38.5737, -7.9098
In one line
The old Moorish quarter of Évora, where the city's Muslim community lived after the Christian reconquest of 1165. Its narrow, irregular lanes still preserve the most visibly Islamic urban fabric in town, alongside well-loved Alentejo taverns.

40. Évora Bullring

Coordinates
38.5648, -7.9076
In one line
Évora's bullring opened in 1889 in the presence of King Luís I, seating 5,000 spectators. After a long decline it was rebuilt as the covered Arena d'Évora in 2007, now a multipurpose venue still tied to the city's June festivities.

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