9 daysNational Road 2: Chaves to Faro
The great crossing of the Portuguese interior, with around 739 km between Trás-os-Montes and the Algarve.
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An official EN2 stop combining the Southwest Writing Museum, historic centre and transition from the Alentejo plains to Serra do Caldeirão.
Almodôvar marks the transition between the Alentejo plain and the Caldeirão mountain range. The Southwest Writing Museum presents epigraphed stelae from the Iron Age and helps to understand a unique heritage of the south of the peninsula. The Main Church, the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição and the streets of the center complete the break. From here, curves, heat and lower density of services suggest preparation before heading to the Algarve. The great crossing of the Portuguese interior, with around 739 km between Trás-os-Montes and the Algarve.
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Almodôvar marks the transition between the Alentejo plain and the Caldeirão mountain range. The Southwest Writing Museum presents epigraphed stelae from the Iron Age and helps to understand a unique heritage of the south of the peninsula. The Main Church, the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição and the streets of the center complete the break. From here, curves, heat and lower density of services suggest preparation before heading to the Algarve. The great crossing of the Portuguese interior, with around 739 km between Trás-os-Montes and the Algarve.
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