Evora

Okay, we'll just be very honest: we did not like this town very much. Evora is a small town about a 2 hour train ride east of Lisbon. It's a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site and it's primary charm is derived from the fact that it was a medieval walled city. I'm not sure if you've ever been to a place that is a walled city, but it's a little creepy. The streets are narrow and winding, everyone is crowded on top of one another to stay within the walls so the buildings are quite tall. You can never get your sense of direction and the white and dandelion paint job eveywhere resembles an insane asylum. In short, it's just claustophobic.

However it did have some redeeming factors, mainly the gorgeous Temple of Diana in the center of the town dating from the 1st century AD. Plus, the chruches were incredibly gorgeous, as long as you could overlook the human skulls that were littered everywhere.