4 Best Sights in Évora and the Alentejo, Portugal

This wonderful museum holds a contemporary collection of the tapestries that made Portalegre world famous. The museum is named after Guy Fino, the founder of one of the city's textile factories.

This local museum showcases the largest private collection of tiles in Portugal. The permanent exhibit is a collaboration between Estremoz's city council and the renowned art collector Berardo. Housed inside the Tocha Palace, it covers 800 years of tilemaking practices, ranging from the 13th to the 21st century. The ground floor covers the origins of the craft, while the upper floors feature historic baroque panels and innovative designs by artists such as the late Paula Rego.

Focusing on 20th-century artists, this museum is definitely worth a visit if you're curious about modern aesthetics in otherwise traditional Alentejo. The well-organized exhibits feature about 300 works that rotate throughout the year. The baroque-style building itself is also exquisite—it was once a hospital run by a religious order. Upstairs there's a chapel lined with azulejos, and a café with nice views of Elvas.

Housed in a 1930s movie theater, the municipal photography museum's permanent collection includes 19th-century cameras, black-and-white images from around Portugal, and an exhibit on the history of global photography.