Prehistoric and Roman vestiges
Prehistoric and Roman vestiges
If at the heart of Moura the monuments reflect, essentially, the presence of Arabs and Christians, in the environs you can find witnesses of inhabitants yet more remote.
The Cromlech of Negrita is a significant Megalithic monument, and at Castro da Azougada the Iron Age left its marks.
In the same county it is worth admiring the rupestral engravings at the zone where the Alqueva dam is being constructed...
Leaving Moura on the way to
Évora, the Roman bridge over the river Brenhas is part of the ancient military route that linked Aruccitana (Moura) to Ebora (Évora).
It is very well preserved, and epigraphic and funerary landmarks are still visible.