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Like Vinicius de Moraes, that great Brazilian poet wrote, "porque hoje é sábado, amanhã é domingo" ("because today is Saturday and tomorow is Sunday") and Sunday is Papagolfade day, I am posting an Adoresada. Don't you know what is an Adoresada? Go see the this theme and check who owns it! :D

This is a little country church that stands on the top of a hill with superb views, a few Kms North of the little town of Nisa. It is dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Graça (Our Lady of Grace), the patron saint of the parish. The place is where many people of the region gather to celebrate the Easter Monday, a popular tradition in many places of Alentejo.

According to a legend that I found in a local newspaper of the 1880's when I fancied myself a serious historian at high school :D, the ancient town of Nisa was found here by Dionysos Bacchus, some hundreds years AC. I suspected that the person who wrote the article didn't know much about Greek mythology, because he didn't mention anything about such name being the union of the two names of the Greek god of wine. According to the same article, my birth town, Portalegre, was also founded by that figure some years before or after (the exact years were mentioned in the articles [!]).

Although I haven't yet found anything about it in any reliable writing and I found strange that no archaeologist made any excavations, I admit that maybe there is some true in another thing that is said about the place: that it was where Nisa stood until the 13th century, when it was completely devastated.

WS's: Other POV's of the same church [1, 2].

Location (latitude, longitude): 39.5475,-7.6261

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Note about this post being on the travelogue "Spring day near Barragem da Póvoa": Actually this isn't so close to Barragem da Póvoa, but as it was taken on the same day, I have no means to exclude it from the "travelogue".

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Update 10-Mar-2009:
I posted a WS in which this church appears on the distance.

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