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The town square, Praça do Marquês do Pombal, is the tour de force of Vila Real, with black-and-white pavement radiating from an obelisk in the center of the square like rays from the sun.
The Rossio (Praça Marquês de Pombal) forms the heart of the lower town and is home to the hustle and bustle of a Saturday market, one of the region’s liveliest, where you can buy the famous pottery of Estremoz, tasty local cheese, and any of the other agricultural products of the Alentejo.
The broad and leafy Avenida da Liberdade runs for 1 km (0.6 mile) north, flanked by gardens, ponds, and fountains, as far as the circular Praça Marquês de Pombal (also known as the Rotunda), where a statue of the dictator Pombal gazes over the city.
The Marquês de Pombal supervised the city’s reconstruction, redesigning it according to a geometric grid of broad avenues.
The task of rebuilding fell to the power behind the throne, an ambitious and tyrannical minister known as Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, best remembered as the Marquês de Pombal.