Elvas Intramuros: The City That Never Fell

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Features

Discover the largest border fortress in the world
Admire the Fonte de São Lourenço
Learn the secret history of Elvas at the Military Museum
Conquer the Castle of Elvas at sunset
Learn the history of the Convent of São Domingos

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Travellers

Language options: English

Price details

Rp178.820 x 1 TravellerRp178.820

Total

Language options: Spanish

Price details

Rp178.820 x 1 TravellerRp178.820

Total

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- After booking, you will receive an email and SMS with a link to access the tour. Follow the link and install the free mobile app. Click on the "Download" button to download the audio tour to your phone
- Pause the tour at any time to take a break or explore nearby

This is not your typical aqueduct tour and quick photo stop. This is the self-guided audio tour to go inside the fortress and understand what it was like to live inside a war machine.

Elvas is the most fortified city in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it was called the Queen of the Frontier because for 800 years it was the key that locked Portugal to Spain. This 10-stop route is 100 percent intramuros, 100 percent on foot, and 100 percent inside the 17th-century Vauban-bastioned enclosure.

We don't go out to the outer forts. We stay inside, where the gunpowder was kept, the Moorish castle, the barracks-churches, the hidden Jewish quarter, and the chapel where soldiers prayed before they died.