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The Best Attractions In Mertola

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Mértola is a municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately 1,292.87 square kilometres : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest population centre by density with approximately 5.62 persons/1 square kilometre . The seat of the municipality is the town of Mértola, which has around 2800 inhabitants , located on a hill over the Guadiana River. Its strategic location made it an important fluvial commercial port in Classical Antiquity, through the period of Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Mértola's main church was the only ...
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  • 1. Mertola Castle Mertola
    Mértola is a municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately 1,292.87 square kilometres : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest population centre by density with approximately 5.62 persons/1 square kilometre . The seat of the municipality is the town of Mértola, which has around 2800 inhabitants , located on a hill over the Guadiana River. Its strategic location made it an important fluvial commercial port in Classical Antiquity, through the period of Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Mértola's main church was the only medieval mosque to have survived the period in Portugal.
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  • 2. Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana Mertola
    Guadiana Valley Natural Park is a natural park in southeastern Portugal. It is one of the 30 areas which are officially under protection in the country. The top of the flow gage tower was reached by the Guadiana twice in 50 years.
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  • 5. Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Anunciacao Mertola
    The Church of Nossa Senhora da Anuncição is an 11th-century church and former mosque in the civil parish of Mértola in the municipality of Mértola, in the Portuguese Alentejo.
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  • 7. Museu de Mertola Mertola
    Museu de Mertola is an archaeological museum complex in Mertola, Portugal. Mertola has three main museum sites.The Roman museum is in the Town Hall building and includes a part reconstructed villa from the 3rd and 4th century and a collection of mosaics with strong Byzantine influence depicting mythological and other scenes. There are also finds from Roman premises that were used for living but also as guest houses , which can be explained by the proximity to the Roman harbour. The Islamic collection is an archive of ceramic objects . The paleo-Christian site includes a Roman cryptoporticus and a 6th-century baptistery.Other finds include Roman funerary art from the Roman and late Roman period excavated from beneath a small chapel dedicated to Saint Sebastian built in the 16th century.
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  • 11. Ponte de Mertola / Torre do Rio Mertola
    The Ponte Velha de Mértola , also referred to as the Ponte Branca or Torre do Rio, is a structure located along the Guadiana River, in the civil parish of Mértola, municipality of Mértola, in the Portuguese district of Beja. Although named a bridge, the structure is the remains of a wharf and fortified port, linked to the defensive curtain of the walled city.
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  • 12. Pulo do Lobo Mertola
    Pulo do Lobo is a waterfall 17km north of Mértola, in the Lower Alentejo region of Portugal. It is the highest waterfall in Southern Portugal. Its name means wolf's leap in English; it was said that only a brave man or a wild animal when chased could leap over the gorge that was created by the waterfall. This waterfall is located at an altitude of between 33 and 35 metres in a very narrow gorge in the River Guadiana.Pulo do Lobo is the most dramatic stretch of the Guadiana , where the river boils between harsh walls, the rushing of water, hit, flow and wind gnawing a millimeter per century per millennium, a nothing in eternity wrote as José Saramago, one of Portugal's most famous writers.
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