YELLOW! Do you like it? I do. Welcome to a new "United Colours of Alentejo" series!

RuiMLopes

While driving throughout Alentejo, I found this small village (Pavia) and, immediately, decided to take some pictures to share here ... enjoy:
The main church:

The "Coreto" (place where local old bands play music upon festivities):

Curious megalithic "Dolmen", right in the middle of the village...it was built was built between the IV and the III millennium BC, having been transformed into a chapel dedicated to St. Denis in the seventeenth century:



A nice chapel built in a very quite square:

and... some local handicrafts... (aren´t they cute??):

That´s why when I refer to this region, I call it "The United Colours of Alentejo"!

RuiMLopes

anwering to my own question: more than 90 visits and zero comments = you don´t like yellow!

eMOJO

It's interesting but I'm intrigued by that 'Dolmen' building and the possible history that would surround it

RuiMLopes

eMOJO wrote: »

It's interesting but I'm intrigued by that 'Dolmen' building and the possible history that would surround it

Thanks for commenting.

From Wikipedia:
"The Dolmen of Pavia, transformed into a chapel of St. Denis, is a Portuguese national monument in the town of Pavia in Mora in the district of Evora. It is one of the most important megalithic monuments in Portugal, located at Pavia, Évora, Portugal, having his enclosure and camber diameter of 4.30 meters, 3.30 meters tall and a hood with volume of 3 x 2.60meters.
It was erected between the IV and III millenium BC, having ben transformed into a chapel dedicated to St. Denis in the seveteenth century.

Was the subject of archaeological excavations in the second quarter of the twentieth century, performed by Virgil Cooper.
"