REDONDO

Located in the territory of the former Lusitanians, the human presence goes back to 3.000 or 4.000 years A. of C., since it demonstrates the remains of settlements and dolmens been abundant distributed by these lands.

She concerns to Évora's district and head of your council. Unlike other populations of the zone he is not placed in high situation. The history does not define of concrete form the foundation of the city that today we know, though the legend relates her to Penedo Redondo. It is known that she had a walled medieval perimeter being during the reign of of D. Alfonso III when your first jurisdictions are granted, being the year 1250.

In 1318 D. Dionis strengthens the city, of equal form that did it with the majority of the populations of the Alentejo, providing it with the degree of realenga in 1318. The king ordered to reconstruct your former castle possibly of Moslem origin, in order to defend her from the incursions of arabs and castilians, who were managing to exceed the frontier lines. Her near oval form it was possessing several towers and two doors. That of the Shutter is opened in the western part and together with her one finds the Tower of the Clock of the 18th century. Inside the fortress in she raises the Tower of the Honoring trace manuelinas, with a height of 23 meters. Towards east opens Ravessa's Door itself.

In the 15th century the city remained practically uninhabited and in times of Juan I one determines that it is a point of obligatory step, for all the travelers and goods that were circulating along those lands, re-arising from this foma the vitality of this population alentejana.

Nowadays it is an important agricultural zone, continuing the general guideline of the region in the one that is located. Stand out your vineyards and broths that have received a recognition so much inside Portugal like abroad. Equally the crafts of the mud stand out.

Several churches and convents are the remains of the abundant presence of religious orders. The Church distinguishes counterfoil of our Lady of the Annunciation, the most ancient from all of them that she dates back to the 16th century, to style baroque and raised on another previous Gothic construction.

As an adorned maiden, the stranger Redondo shines adorned by your luxurious pomp of shining white and blue, causeway with a paved noble who sends us to the times of D. Diniz, one of the emblematic mas Portuguese monarches. To walk along your) streets and squares, calm and seemingly slept in the last centuries, it is a relaxing pleasure, to which it is necessary to add the permanent smile and the greeting of your affable inhabitants.

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Antonio García Candelas        Suggestions and impressions

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