Arraiolos, famous medieval villa by the ancestral and artisan manufacture of carpets and carpets, is the beginning of this route. Kilometer to kilometer, we discovered the small villages that populate the Alentejo and that takes us until Montemor-or-Novate, city that has a hollow in history here for being where king dom Manuel I promulgated in 1496 the order to discover a sea lane that he took to India. Older, nevertheless, they are the megalíticos monuments that we will also find.
Attracted by the world-wide fame of the carpets and carpets that make here from century XIII, we crossed the stores of this villa in search of some wonder that served to decorate our hall, like those of the palaces and Portuguese nobiliarias houses. Old techniques for new designs that adapt to our days…
But Arraiolos also surprises to us with its imposing Romanesque-gothic castle, of principles of the century XIV, that still conserves its majestic Tower of the Tribute where the ivy climbs up old stones. One picota of century XVI and several satately houses speaks of the importance that had the villa at the time of the Discoveries.