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.

  • Portugal’s wine industry produces not only excellent table wines from regions like Dão, Douro, and Alentejo, but legendary port wine, which comes from the north.

  • 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.

  • Catherine’s family served as rulers of Portugal between 1640 and 1910, but they preferred their estate at Vila Viçosa in the Alentejo (see page 95) to this lonely vastness.

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


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