We were en route for Évora, the dusty, blue-and-white relic of Portugal’s sixteenth-century court, with its well-preserved, but largely reconstructed Roman temple:-

The cathedral has fine carved apostles on either side of the late Gothic portico:-

A good cloister:-

And a very elaborately decorated shrine to the Madonna in the nave:-

Nearby is the Convento de Lóios, now a pousada:-

But what we liked best were the strange, oversize, carved Continents perched on the façade of the Convento da Graça:-