The District of Beja is a district Portuguese, pertaining to the traditional province of the Low Alentejo. It limits the north with the District of Évora, the east with Spain, the south with the District of Light and the west with the District of Setúbal and the Atlantic Ocean. Area: 10 225 km² (the greater Portuguese district). Resident population (2001): 161.211. Seat of the district: Beja. The district of Beja corresponds to South half of the alentejana plain, irrigated by small water obstacles in general and that almost is dried in summer, and crossed in its totality by low mountain ranges and little inclined. The main accident of the district is the valley of the Guadiana river, that crosses of north to the south its Eastern part, and that separates the main plain of a territory between the river and the Spanish border that, jointly with the mountain ranges of the Algarve which they limit the district the south (Mountain range of Monchique, Mountain range of Caldeirão and Mountain range of Espinhaço de Cão) is the areas more victims and of greater altitude of the district: The Mountain range of Adiça and the first tips of the Spanish Brown Mountain range exceed the 500 ms of altitude. In addition to these elevations, only the Mountain range of the Cercal, in the limit with the district of Setúbal near Vila Nova de Milfontes and the Mountain range of the Mendro in the limit with the district of Évora, to the north of Vidigueira is worthy of mention, reaching 341 and 412 ms of altitude, respectively. The city did not acquire certain reputation until century XVII by famous the Lettres portugaises, perhaps apócrifas, that Mariana rado Alcofo, religious in the convent of the Conception, directed after the France return of its destinatano to an official of Luis XV, the count is occupied by the regional museum, in whom they emphasize the chapel, the superior gallery and claustro Main festejos: In June, regional festival: in August, the fair, that lasts all the month, with run of bulls and acts folkloric. Products craftsmen: Cork objects, colchas (colchas of wool), vasijas Specialties. Cheese of goat; morgados, pastry shop.