Delectable Portugal: Food & Wine Evora, Portugal Tours

Your fabulous and authentic culinary vacation in Portugal will include daily activities as indicated below. Depending on the season and dates booked, the order of activities is subject to change.

• Pick up from Lisbon hotel or airport and depart for the small town of Èvora, your home for your Portugal cooking vacation. This small town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site full of Roman vestiges, as well as medieval churches and palaces. Every street in Evora’s center retains a historic charm.
• Lunch in a local traditional restaurant, followed by a brief orientation walk to introduce you to Èvora.
• In the afternoon, experience your first cooking class in Sofia’s renovated but traditional kitchen. The class will be an introduction to Portuguese gastronomy and a study of influences and seasonings.
• Dinner to follow based on your efforts.
• Overnight.

• After breakfast, begin your second cooking class. During your lesson, you will focus on the importance of fish and olive oil in Portuguese cuisine.
• Today’s lunch is based on your culinary efforts!
• This afternoon enjoys a visit to a local wine estate, blending ancient and modern winemaking techniques. The grapes of this wine region include Periquita, Trincadeira, Tinta Roriz, and Moreto reds and Roupeiro, Manteudo, Perrum, and Rabo de Ovelha for the whites – all Portuguese varieties, as well as Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.
• Stop in the nearby village of S. Pedro do Corval, a popular local pottery place full of small factories.
• Next, visit the 13th-century castle built by King Afonso III in the thousand-year-old village of Monsaraz, close to the border of Spain. You will have dinner in the shadow of this picturesque fortress.
• Return to the hotel and overnight.

• Breakfast.
• Today’s culinary class will concentrate on local produce, an abundance from local farms and ranches.
• This afternoon, tour Évora and visit the famous cathedral, Chapel of Bones from the 16th century, and the Roman Baths and Temple from the 1st century with a local guide.
• After a walking tour, time at leisure to explore and shop on your own. The town is rich in jewelry, items made from cork (hats, shoes, aprons, purses, bracelets, etc.), tiles, and much more.
• Dinner on your own (Sofia will make suggestions).
• Return to the hotel on your own and overnight.

• Cooks, this is your day off! Today you will drive into the northern Alentejo and before lunch at Vila Viçosa, visit its Renaissance Ducal Palace and the historical Sancturay of Vila Vicosa, where John IV, King of Portugal, gave his crown to the Virgin Mary and named her Queen of Portugal.
• Passing through part of Alentejo known for its marble, stop in the historical and white town of Estremoz, enclosed within its ramparts and overlooking a vast plain of gnarled olive trees and wheat fields. You will also stop at a cork factory.
• Once back in Evora, time for dinner on your own and overnight.

• Breakfast followed by your fourth cooking class.
• This region is known for its aromatic herbs and wild flowers. This morning you will use them in dishes that the locals have passed on through generations. Lunch to follow.
• Enjoy an afternoon excursion to several traditional villages, and visit the fabulous pre-historical megalithic “cromeleque dos almendres” from 4000 BC.
• This evening, sit down to a farewell dinner at a traditional restaurant.
• Overnight.

• Breakfast, and check out of the hotel, where you can leave your luggage.
• Your last class focuses on the flavors of the South. Lunch to follow based on your efforts.
• After lunch, return to the hotel to collect your bags, then transfer to Lisbon.

This trip pairs wonderfully with our 3-night Lisbon Food Tour. Or, contact us if you’d like us to create a custom stay for you in Lisbon after your Delectable Portugal culinary vacation in Èvora.