For João Moreno, the Alentejo recalls his childhood holidays between Borba and Vila Viçosa.

Creativity and imagination in using very simple ingredients has made Alentejo cuisine a surprising mix of flavours and proof of the hospitality of the Alentejo people.The province was once a region of wheat and wide plains where h

There are plenty of things in the Alentejo that can always take us by surprise: the plains that stretch as far as the eye can see, cork oaks and olive trees that have been there for centuries, the beauty of towns and villages like Marvão, Monsaraz