São Lourenço do Barrocal is a luxury hotel located near Monsaraz, and very close to Alqueva. The estate covers 780 hectares and has been in the same family for over 200 years, but its origins date back to the Neolithic period. It was also a place of work and housed more than 50 families. The hotel is the result of a project to restore the estate, designed by the award-winning architect Souto de Moura, which aimed at maintaining the rural and traditional concept, adapted to the new functions. São Lourenço do Barrocal comprises a cellar for the creation of exclusive …

In the restaurant, which is part of Herdade do Esporão's wine tourism aspect, you can count on an inspiring view of the vineyard. It has already won a Michelin Star and a Green Star.

The Official Dark Sky Observatory is located in Cumeada, in Reguengos de Monsaraz, in a former primary school. The space was reconverted and adapted to function as the Official Observatory of Dark Sky Alqueva. It has a permanent astrophotography exhibition by astrophotographer Miguel Claro and a mini-museum, where you can touch a real meteorite, see the original autograph of the last astronaut to go to the moon and other curiosities.

Chiesa Madre (mother church) of the village of Monsaraz, 1500s, has replaced the previous Gothic Temple since it was contaminated by the plague. The bear marble carved Tomb by Gomes Martins Silvestre, to portray a funeral procession with 17 people is one of the most relevant monuments. The Centre of the pediment, the tiled Panel represented the Virgin of conception. On the facade are quadrangular towers 2 and a false portico of 3 blind arcades.

A Mufla é um espaço dedicado ao fabrico de cerâmica utilitária e decorativa em barro vermelho. A funcionar desde 1995, esta loja continua a utilizar a roda do oleiro e a pintura manual para fabricar as mais variadas peças de artesanato que rapidamente se convertem no que de melhor se faz em cerâmica alentejana.

Localiza-se no Centro Náutico de Monsaraz, estando inserida na albufeira de Alqueva. Trata-se da primeira praia do Grande Lago Alqueva e foi galardoada com a bandeira azul e ainda com a classificação de Praia Acessível.

Its construction started on October 27, 1887. The Bell Tower is in the middle of the facade. Inside you can see 3 naves and 3 chapels in the area of the headboard. The transept is projecting. The giant flying buttresses and the placement of the Tower in the middle of the facade make this church one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Portugal.

This granite monument, shaped like a mushroom, has more than 2 meters high. Has a peculiar morphology, resembling a mushroom, with the narrower base than the top with the top height. Its symbolism became an attraction, given that it was customary to girls in the region to shoot a stone to a stone, to know if your marriage was around or not. Each stone was waiting a year failed. Today still meets on the first Monday of Easter.

Located on the top of a hill, the village of Monsaraz was once a pre-historic "castro" (a celtic village). There are several megalithic monuments nearby, such as the menhir of Outeiro, the menhir of Beloa and the cromelech of Xerez. A special not to the Convent of Orada (18th century), the Hermitage of Saint Catarina, the Square of Saint Bartolomeu, the Church of Saint John the Baptist and, most of all, the Castle, with its four gates, two streets and a wide square, the Square Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, where the Mother Church, the old hospital and the "Paços da …

It is one of the four doors that allows to access to the inside of the Castle of Monsaraz defensive walls which reflects the armed forces fears that used to exist by that time. Each door is made out of granite, red clay mortar and burnt lime. This, like Alcoba door, is done in plain arch.