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Pro
Has Retained its Flavour On Its Isolated Hilltop!
Con
Lack of supplie stores, eating places, leisure activities
In a nutshell
I hope UNESCO consideres Marvao World Heritage. It deserves!
solopes Says: Several times I passed in the road to/from Spain, always saying to myself - you must get time to go up and see the castle of Marvão.One day, I got it.The castle is really nice, the views are gorgeous, but my strong sensation keeps connected to the view from below - the...
solopes Says: Marvão is a very small city, inside walls, with a very well preserved image that justified the privilege of being considered UNESCO heritage. The location, upon very steep hills, allowed it a very important role in Portuguese history, after being conquered by our first king....
salinhopt Says: Worth visiting are the 15th century mother church and the Municipal Museum, open in the former church of Santa Maria and displaying local ethnological and cultural traditions and archaeological findings.
salinhopt Says: Marvão lies in the area of the Natural Park of Serra de São Mamede, with a wide range of flora and fauna due to its geological diversity and varying climate. It is the home of one of the largest colonies of bats in Europe, but also of deer, boars, Bonnelli eagles, griffon...
salinhopt Says: Rua do Espirito Santo, with the former governor´s house exhibiting beautiful iron-wrought balconies from the 17th century, leads to the castle, mostly built by King Dinis in 1299 and dominating the village.
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Pousada Santa Maria: Fantastic location
micas_pt Says: There is a Pousada in Marvão, inside the castle walls. It is situated on one of its narrow cobbled streets. It is possible to visit and to use their bar/ restaurant, which has fabulous views over Marvão's surroundings.We've visited Marvão both in Winter and Summer. Winters...
O Poejo Restaurant: pork and plumbs, delicious
beyondesign Says: This restaurant in Santo António das Areias near Marvão is well worth a visit if you are going to this area.You can eat outside in the courtyard or in the trendy modern interior.We had a fabulous meal and the owners were so friendly, they were celebrating a birthday and...
micas_pt Says: We visited Marvão by car. The access is good and so was parking, but twice we visited we always visited on week-days, so parking was no problem, even though it was free of charge. Probably on week-ends and high season there will some more difficulty in easily parking your...
Transportation is really the issue here...
veigapaula Says: Very little public transportation is available. Go to: http://www.rede-expressos.pt/ select horários (schedules) and choose your departure point (ex: Lisbon) and wait for it to reload. Then choose arrival point Marvão and click the ida e volta box (return ticket).You have...
micas_pt Says: There are a lot of shops selling hand-made products.I bought a nativity, made of clay and hand-painted, it is of a naive style. The nativity has only 5 pieces (Jesus, Virgin Mary and S. José, the cow and the donkey) but I found it so simple that I couldn't resist it. It...
Goats in the Serra de Sao Mamede
Bwana_Brown Says: It was almost 3 PM by the time we turned off the main IP2 highway at Portalegre, taking the small and twisting N359 up into the Serra de Sao Mamede mountains as we approached Marvao. This was a very nice drive as we climbed up through the forest toward this village 2800 feet...
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Please take snickers with thin soles to marvão; don't wear highheels (completely impossible) or flipflops or very thick shoes. You have to feel the stones under your feet in order to balance yourself or you will slip...
Unique Suggestions: Remember that Marvão is:
230 km Lisboa / Lisbon
350 km Porto / Oporto
20 km Portalegre
14 km Espanha (fronteira de Marvão/Galegos) /Spain (Marvão/galegos border)
13 km Castelo de Vide
Fun Alternatives: tenis shoes for sure!
Updated May 21, 2007
global84 Says: Besides enjoying fantastic views from the castle, the second best thing to do in Marvão would be to admire the whitewashed houses that are lined up on every street in the town. Red roofs and white buildings of each house are nothing more than how the traditional Portuguese...
Martin_S. Says: The simple streets of Marvao provide a nice venue for photography with the stone buildings and cobbled paving along with a few of the "human" touches like the wooden doors giving each entrance an individuality of its own. The water source at the village center no longer...
Marvao, the valley views below
Martin_S. Says: Marvao village and castle, perched above the surrounding countryside gives you some fantastic views. Our small Olympus Stylus camera has a "panorama" setting which takes three photos one after the other as you pan from left to right and then has a program that connects them...
Marvao green spots, gardens and such
Martin_S. Says: Dry, arid, hot, humid, rocky, not things that bring to mind green or garden, but even here at Marvao, on the rocky outcropping with its castle the people have created green havens for the eyes and nose. The manicured and cropped garden below the castle brings to mind a mini...
Martin_S. Says: The city walls, this is what protects the village, which protects the castle, which protects the village, which protects the surrounding countryside. Walls on walls and within walls, even the walls which are outside the castle to protect the village itself are impressive in...
Martin_S. Says: Walking the streets of towns/villages like Marvao is sort of like entering a living museum (although the walking is a little harder on your feet with the cobbled streets, so wear good walking shoes with a hard sole if possible). What is odd is that even though we know that...
Martin_S. Says: You can find a map of the castle and its grounds at the tourist information center just outside the castle, it is near the end of the castle gardens that are below the main castle entrance.With it you can wander the walls and battlements of the castle, even visit the cistern...
Martin_S. Says: The Marvao Castle commands the surrounding countryside and you can see when you walk around the battlements WHY this site was chosen. This was the first site where we used the "panorama" setting on our camera. We enjoyed this medieval town from the 13th century from the...
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Marvão - A Hilltop Castle & Enclosed Garden!
This was Day 7 of our Portugal trip, and the 4th day since we had set out from Lisbon in our rented car. Marvão was the second of the 'Border Castles' that we toured on our drive around Portugal. We...
We spent just a day in Marvão but it worth the visit. It is a small village in Alentejo only a few miles from Spain at a top of peak (Serra do Sapoio - 800 e 860 metros) surrounded of a great wall......
Where we can see the birds back
On the top of the hill, lies the beautiful town of Marvão. The setence used to describe it is true. You stand above the clouds and can see the birds back. But there's a lot more to see too.
A rider from Islam, Ibn Marwan used to rest here in the IXth century and the village got its name from him... This garden is exquisite as you can see....
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