Description Alenquer

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Alenquer is a municipality that belongs to the district of Lisbon, central region of Portugal and sub-region of the West, with about 43 000 inhabitants. It is bathed by the river of the same name, land of landscapes, farms, wines and a lot of history ...

Starting from the slopes of the Serra de Montejunto, going through hills, valleys and narrow passages to the banks of the Tagus River, we glimpse a landscape marked by extensive carpets of vineyards and vineyards dotted by urban centers with remarkable details, here and there, from the most popular taste to the more demanding.

Marking its presence by its hillside layout, the village known for a long time as «Presépio de Portugal», Alenquer was the birthplace of Pêro de Alenquer, Damião de Góis and other notable men, a favorite of kings and queens and played a leading role in several decisive moments in the history of Portugal.

Preserving and passing on the memories associated with a wine culture from generation to generation, with some of the best and most internationally awarded wines produced here, Alenquer combines the economic potential and the cultural and ethnographic component with tourism, thus promoting the brand “Alenquer , Land of Vine and Wine ”.

Reinforcing and consolidating the county's patrimonial and cultural identity, based on the creation of S. Francisco de Assis and arrived in Portugal by the hand of the Franciscan Brothers, the Nativity Scene, Alenquer's historical icon since 1968, every year, in December, livens up the hillside of the village of Alenquer facing the river with its colorful figures, with its biggest figures reaching 6 meters in height, projecting and disseminating the image and brand “Alenquer, Presépio de Portugal”.

World heritage sites celebrate everything that is done for the common good and the dignity of the human person, in the arts or culture, in sport or leisure, with the program “Alenquer, Terra do Espírito Santo”, under the motto “O Spirit blows wherever it wants! ”

Already in its slope based on its natural potential that goes from the banks and riverside area of ??the Tagus River, through lands of vineyards and forests to the Serra de Ota and the magnificent Serra de Montejunto, Alenquer presents sports and nature lovers a wide and diverse range of activities for sports, inserted in contexts exclusively in contact with nature, or combined with brushstrokes of some notes of a rich historical and cultural heritage and of high tourist interest, diffusers of the brand “Alenquer, sport and nature ”.