Monsaraz Exploration: A UNESCO Heritage Site Tour with Wine Tasting from Évora
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22 Ratings
Évora
Explore the UNESCO Heritage Site of Monsaraz on a tour from Évora. Discover the breathtaking views, ancient castle, and rich history of this incredible village. Finish off with a wine tasting session featuring unique and unfamiliar wines.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Olarias of Sao Pedro do Corval - En route to Monsaraz, we’ll pause briefly to explore a ceramics workshop in the town known as São Pedro do Corval. This town is renowned throughout Portugal for its clay-based creations.
  • Monsaraz - Prior to our return to Évora, we’ll indulge in a session of wine tasting. You’re certain to be astonished by the variety of wines available for sampling.
What's Included
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
Additional Information

Join us as we explore Monsaraz, an awe-inspiring hamlet we insist you don’t miss when you’re in our vicinity. Wander around its streets where time seems to have stood still, soaking in the captivating vistas. En route, we’ll drop by a pottery shop in São Pedro do Corval.
Situated alongside Europe’s largest man-made lake, this remarkable spot has historically been one of the region’s key castles for centuries. It’s brimming with tales of commerce, warfare, and pivotal events that shaped Portugal’s future.
The entire village, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will offer a one-of-a-kind exposure to some of nature’s finest panoramas. Drawing our journey to a close in grand style, you’ll get to participate in a wine tasting session, sampling wines you may never have encountered before.

Location
Banco de Portugal - Agência de Évora
Praça do Giraldo
In front of Banco de Portugal. The only marble building in the square.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Tina
Mar 11, 2024
1/2 Day out with variety - Had a great day. Ended up being a private tour for the two of us. Loved the pottery stop, the monsaraz Visit and the wine tasting. Fun entertaining and informative. Got a great recommendation for dinner as well!
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164francineh
Jan 13, 2024
Excellent tour with exquisite wine tasting, amazing visit to Monsaraz and a local pottery. - We rea;;u enjoyed our tour with Jao. He is very knowledgeable of the area around Evora, and we expecially loved the wine tasting and the visit to a local pottery, where we bought a jug and some cups. We will enjoy drinking our wine in our new cups!
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Michael_o
Jan 8, 2024
Évora Countryside wine tasting tour. - Our guide, Martin, was wonderful. Professional, friendly, and knowledgeable. He made the day most enjoyable.
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A9494kaelenah
Oct 5, 2023
Monsaraz and wine tasting - The cromlech was so interesting and Monsaraz was just wonderful. Bonus for us - the other couple never showed so it was a personal tour. Also got to try some excellent wine and didn’t leave empty handed. Fabio was a great guide who shared so much information and really went above and beyond what we expected. Just an unforgettable morning.
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Katrien_s
Apr 22, 2023
Obidos without the tourists - The first stop is at a pottery workshop, where we saw 2 potters at work at the wheel, as well as the later painting and dipping it in the liquid glass glaze. Then we visited the hilltop village of Monsaraz. This is an amazing pittoresk village which was abandoned in the 18th century, but has been nicely renovated with some people living there again. There is a pretty well preserved fresco of the good and bad judge, and a small castle. Finally, there is a wine tasting in the village. The guide is very knowledgeable, but also allows a lot of freedom. Monsaraz is not at all touristic, and we were nearly alone in the village.
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Abqjane
Apr 7, 2023
Another Amazing Trip to Monsaraz! - This was our third tour to Monsaraz with João (we try to take friends to Evora when they visit us in Cascais) and we all had a fantastic time. Joao is the best tour guide we have experienced and he always makes it interesting, educational and fun! The activities he includes provide a flavor for the region (Alentejo) and,of course, the wine tasting! This is at least our 8th outing with João and we will keep doing them!
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Jerome-22-gg
Jan 18, 2023
EXCEPTIONAL!!! - EXCEPTIONAL!!! I can only recommend everyone to book this tour if you wish to visit Monsaraz but mostly if you want to learn about Portuguese history and culture. Our guide, João, he is just the best. We learned so much from him, it was amazing. I would love to meet with him again next time I go to Portugal. It's definitely THE best tour I ever did so far!
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Kannav_c
Dec 26, 2022
Relaxing tour - We loved this tour. Our tour guide took us to a pottery from where we bought the earthenwares for our home. He also explained us the history and landscape of the Evora during our tour. We were then taken to Monsaraz which is a quite little town with only 30 natives. We loved it because of the calmness in the air and will definitely be staying in Monsaraz in our next trip. We also did the wine tasting that was fun.
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Bill
Nov 8, 2022
Perfect day. - Our guide was excellent, he not only took the time to explain and answer all of our dozens of questions about Portugal, it agriculture, its history, etc. but stopped at a Cork Forest and gave us a demonstration of how the Cork Trees are grown, harvested, and eventually made into dozens of useful items. We then went to the pottery factory where pottery is still made by humans using both hands .. gee.. We got our free wine tasting, and had a great day at the Monsaraz site. PS. The guide was on time and picked us up one-block from our hotel exactly where stated.
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Lynn_p
Sep 25, 2023
Interesting And Relaxing Tour - With this being a private tour we were able to spend time where we were most interested. Our guide made sure to do his best on any request we made. He was knowledgeable and for us English speakers very understandable.
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