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Capela dos Ossos
A more ghoulish attraction lies behind the Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo. The 19th-century Capela dos Ossos was built from the bones and skulls of over 1000 monks as a blackly reverent reminder of earthly impermanence, and the ultimate in recycling. There's a similar chapel at Évora.
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Milreu
The ruins of a grand Roman villa are set in beautiful countryside at Milreu and provide a rare opportunity to glimpse something of Roman life here. The lst-century AD ruins reveal the characteristic form of a peristyle villa, with a gallery of columns around a courtyard.
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