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Spiritual, magical, historical, incredible - a visit to the many ancient megaliths around
Évora (
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) will make your hairs stand on end. As a traveller, you will more often
than not have these sites to yourself. And what better way to ponder the mysteries of places
so ancient they cannot fully be explained? How did such massive rocks get hauled into
place? Were they fertility symbols or proprietal land boundaries? They beg questions, yet -
refreshingl y in a world of reasoning - provide few answers. Somehow, part of their appeal
lies in not knowing.
