Elvas is an Alentejo town that is close to the border with Spain, and which, due to its strategic defensive position, has left an extensive history in its urban layout.
Elvas has an important heritage of fortifications, in addition to having a historic center full of good surprises, which do not exist .... so visible .... anywhere else.
In this video I show this historical past and its hidden features in the current city. Watch this video and get to know better the urban part of this precious Alentejo jewel that is very little valued.

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 From the Islamic occupation to the Middle Ages the historical past of Elvas
01:46 The 17thcentury urban fortress of Elvas.
02:31 The main bulwarks of the urban fortress: the parts that make up a bulwark and the logic of its geometry
02:28 Access to the city. The double doors of Elvas: Esquina, Olivença and S.Vicente
03:06 Fortress of Olivença : Portas de Olivença
03:29 Nª Srª da Conceição Bastion: Portas da Esquina and what to visit in its surroundings
04:16 Artillery barracks
04:45 Cistern of Elvas : from the medieval well to the new aqueduct and cistern of the city
05:56 Amoreira Aqueduct: 8.5km to Fonte da Misericórdia
06:35 Fonte de Santa Mónica celebrates the anniversary of the Amoreira Aqueduct
07:05 Portas de S.Vicente : Location and what to visit in its surroundings
08:40 The Alcaçova neighborhood and the 1st Islamic wall
09:41 Temple Gate one of the two gates of the 1st Islamic wall
10:35 Church of Santa Maria de Alcaçova, and what's left of the old Islamic Mosque, its Mirhab facing Mecca
11:06 Rua das Beatas : the street that keeps the layout of the narrow streets of the Islamic past
11:41 Rua das Flores: narrow street that connects with Porta do Miradeiro on the 1st Islamic wall
12:48 Aerial view of Porta do Miradeiro
13:08 The Castle
13:43 Aerial view of the layout of the 1st Islamic wall, with some old turrets now reused by houses.
15:09 2nd Islamic Wall, its layout seen from the air with the location of some of the ancient turrets and gates
15:53 The tower of Porta Nova or Arco da Encarnação seen from the air and from the ground
16:55 Torre Nova or Torre da Cadeia
17:00 Bishop's Arch
17:12 Aerial view of the layout of the 2nd Islamic Wall to the west of the main square of Elvas (Praça da República)
17:47 Elvas monumental center
18:05 Praça da República: Old Town Hall and old Cathedral
18:37 Porta de Santiago : Arch of the Square of the 2nd Islamic wall
19:17 Church of Nossa Senhora da Assunção do Séc. XVI prototype of the Church with a tower facade, or pseudofortified church
20:21 Igreja das Dominicas, centralized and octagonal in plan, lined entirely with "carpet" tiles from the 17th century
21:14 S.Domingos Convent, former hospice and inn
22:05 St. John of God Bastion and the old Military Hospital of Elvas