Example sentences for: alentejo

How can you use “alentejo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The impressive eastern wing was rebuilt by Friedrich Ludwig, the architect of the Convent at Mafra (see page 42), using the multicolored marble of the Alentejo.

  • Inland you’ll find Roman and Moorish monuments, numerous fruit orchards, and the scenic wooded hillsides of the serras that separate the Algarve from the Alentejo.

  • They settled in the Alentejo, along the Tagus river, and in the Algarve (which they named al-Gharb, or “Western Land”).

  • Portalegre is the prosperous, no-nonsense capital of the northern Alentejo, located near the hills and neolithic monuments of the Serra de São Mamede, 59 km (36 miles) north of Estremoz.

  • In fact, the Alentejo is far more sophisticated and varied than it may first appear, with an excellent wine-making tradition, large aristocratic estates, and some of the country’s historic cities, such as Évora.


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