Thursday, July 12, 2018

Evora, part 2

Although we were in Evora only for a day, there was lots to do here.  This is the outside of the Capela dos Ossos -- or the Chapel of Bones.


This is a description of the chapel.



Inside the chapel are apparently the bones of 5000 people.










The view of the city from the roof of the chapel 


After we went to the chapel, we walked back past the Roman temple and took some more pictures in the evening light.  



Walking past the cathedral, there was some live fado music playing.


Here's a church in town.  If you look in the bottom corner, you can see two college students.  The story goes that JK Rowling lived in Portugal and got her inspiration for the Hogwarts uniforms from   college students in Coimbra (our next city), but the students here in Evora wore the same things.


Here I am in front of the fountain that wasn't working.



Pastel de nata and other breakfast treats.


As we were leaving, I realized I didn't have a picture of the wall surrounding the city.  The ancient city is enclosed in this wall, and parking is scarce inside the city.  So there is a large parking lot outside the wall where we parked for the night, and then walked to our hotel and all around the city.  There were cars around the city, but mostly all the streets are the narrow cobblestone streets that you can't drive on.  




good-bye to Evora!  

3 comments:

Valerie said...

Wow! Those bones and skulls!

shaunacd said...

Bones?! i just read a bunch of books on Bones. Forensic anthropology. A whole building of bones, Wow!

Jill said...

I’m late to the game, but those bones are creepy