Day Trip to Evora

It was 103 in Evora, we could feel every bit of that hot dry heat.  We had special sights to see, ones we had been looking forward to since we started planning a trip to Portugal.  It's a long train ride east, around 1 hour 40 minutes each way and cost about 25$ per person round trip.  Not a cheap or easy day trip.  

We used atlasobscura.com again to seek out the strange Capela de Osos....Chapel of Bones.  Not enough room in the town cemetery? Want to remind folks of their immortality?  Want to scare people into leading a good Christian life or else?  Line a chapel with bones! Thousands of bones stacked like firewood and skulls placed in decorative patterns makes for a super erie chapel.  

The inscription over the door reads "We Bones That Are Here, We Are Waiting For Yours"

The other draw to Evora are some nicely preserved Roman ruins.  One source atrributes the structure to a Temple of Diana, another to Julius Ceasar.  It's known to be one of the best preserved Roman ruins on the Iberian Peninsula, due in part to it being used as a slaughter house during Medevil times and then being walled in for a few centuries.  

Just having a pineapple Popsicle at a cafe looking at Roman ruins and stuff.

There's a bus every hour so so back to Lisbon, but we prefer the train, even though it meant spending 6 hours in the Evora oven.  There are only 2 trains to Evora in the morning and 2 trains returning to Lisbon in the afternoon.  We wandered around, shopped, and sat in a cafe to spend the time.  There were cathedrals to see but we had been in sooooo many and they all charged admission so we didn't bother.  It was a long day but worth it.