Hotel Pousada dos Lóios ( Évora / Évora )

Largo Conde de Vila Flor 7000-804 Évora (Alentejo|Portugal)

Telephone:: +351266730070
fax:: +351266707248

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Description

The convent consecrated to Saint John the Evangelist was built in 1485 on the dilapidated castle of the city. The eagle that represents him still dominates the façade. First as a king’s residence, then as an auxiliary abode for the monks of Lóios, the holy premises crossed the centuries until becoming in our time a lodging sanctuary that forms part of the Portuguese pousadas network. The historical village of Évora, the capital of the Alentejo region, provides shelter according to its traditions. In the middle of the old town you will find the Tuscan columns that hold the porch of entry to the place. Behind them there is a domed cloister, undoubtedly Manueline, sealed by Moorish arches and a marble fountain that serves as an incomparable dining room. A staircase with more marble on its veranda and good tapestries from Arraiolos – the Portuguese city of tapestries - leads to the renaissance gallery from which the rooms spread. Long ago these were monastic cells, and not a single detail will escape the mystic perfume emanating from the religious paintings, the mathematical references and the purest Portuguese style carved in wood. If all this devotion is not enough, on the same floor there is a rococo chapel. But if what you need is a little fresh air to ventilate so much contained history, nothing better than to look over the city from the terrace of the swimming pool bar, in the back garden.

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Bedrooms:

Double room: 26, Special double room: 5, Suites: 5;
todas con heating, air-conditioning, work desk, safe, paying mini bar, non-smoking bedrooms, bathrobe, hair dryer

Installations:

garden, outdoor pool, conference rooms with capacity for 50persons , living room

Dining:

Café bar, Restaurant, Terrace

Closed:

Open year round.

Manager:

Conceiçao Sousa

Prices

Indicative Prices

Double room

118-238 €

Hotel suite

130-220 €

Breakfast

Incluido €

Credit cards: AE, DC, MC, V

Taxes included

Our Critic review

ROOMS WE RECOMMEND:

Suite 101 is the most spacious room, decorated in rococo style. The furniture is powerful, and there are paintings of saints and mathematical, philosophy and moral allegories engraved in the ceilings unveil their motley atmosphere.

EATING:

Cod, migas and Alentejo wine in the restaurant of the pousada.

SURROUNDINGS:

Without having to travel far, history encounters the traveler in the convent’s church, with a flamboyant gothic front and a nave lined in glazed ceramic tiles from the early 18th century, and in the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval, integrated in the old castle. Don’t miss the roman temple consecrated to Diana, a city treasure built around the 2nd century. Its fourteen columns with beautiful capitals sculpted in marble from Estremoz remain unaltered.