Our first stop was a minuscule seventeenth-century chapel known as the Ante-capela de Nossa Senhora do Livramento on a dirt track off a minor road south of Montemor-o-Novo. It was constructed in such a way as to incorporate a prehistoric dolmen in its structure, as the Catholic church was keen to accommodate surviving monuments of ancient religions:-



Thank you for including the colour shot in this one – it helps to see the disparate parts of the Church’s feeble efforts to disguise the ancient presence.