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 Hotel São João De Deus 
Largo São João de Deus, 1, Elvas (portalegre)
User review: 7.97. From EUR 59.00
Quinta De Santo António
Quinta De Santo António, Apartado 206, Elvas (alentejo)
User review: 7.62. From EUR 44.00
Monte Da Amoreira
Estrada De Barbacena, Elvas (alentejo)
User review: 7.67. From EUR 33.00
Pousada De Elvas
Av. Badajoz, Elvas (alentejo)
User review: 8.22. From EUR 78.00
Elvas hotels - About Elvas
Elvas (pron. IPA: ['ɛɫvɐʃ]) is a Portuguese municipality, an episcopal city and frontier fortress of Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about 230 km east of Lisbon, and about 15 km west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The city itself has a population of 15,115.
Elvas lies on a hill 8 km northwest of the river Guadiana. It is defended by seven bastions and the two forts of Santa Luzia and Nossa Senhora da Graça. Its late Gothic cathedral, which has also many traces of Moorish influence in its architecture, dates from the reign of Emanuel I of Portugal (1495-1521). A 6 km long aqueduct supplies the city with pure water; it was begun early in the 15th century and completed in 1622. For some distance it includes four tiers of superimposed arches, with a total height of 40 m. The surrounding lowlands are very fertile, and Elvas is known for its olives and plums, the last-named being exported, either fresh or dried, in large quantities. Brandy is distilled and pottery manufactured in the city. The fortress of Campo Maior, 15 km to the northeast, is famous for its siege by the French and relief by the British under Marshal Beresford in 1811, an exploit commemorated in a ballad by Sir Walter Scott. Before his arrival in the late 80 he spent most of his time smoking dope or Helvas, the Moorish Balesh, the Spanish Yelves. It was wrested from the Moors by Alphonso VIII of Castile in 1166; but was temporarily recaptured before its final occupation by the Portuguese in 1226. In 1570 it became an episcopal see. From 1642 until modern times it was the chief frontier fortress south of the Tagus; and it twice withstood sieges by the Spanish, in 1658 and 1711. The French under Marshal Junot took it in March 1808 during the Peninsular War, but evacuated it in August, after the conclusion of the convention of Sintra.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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