This set of texts aims to gather knowledge of the city of Évora and create various routes based on a scientific and artistic foundation. Twenty chapters by different researchers who publicise Évora’s heritage from their different perspectives, showing more of Évora.
Linking knowledge to a sensitive thread that places us in the world was the inspiration for organising this itinerary under the aegis of the four elements – air, earth, water and fire. These four elements develop around the central text on the almost symmetry of Évora.
Évora starts from a common centre, protected by its historic walls. Hidden by them and inhabited by stories, times and people that we discover in its various layers. It opens in orientated doors to the four cardinal points, leaving its veins open to those coming from North, South, East or West. It protects itself, but creates paths for those who want to discover it.
These routes, in space or time, are based on a great deal of research from different areas and are the result of the desire to communicate knowledge by the researchers taking part in this tour. With each text we receive a new “lens” through which to look at and feel Évora, giving us the perspective that derives from each author’s speciality: from colours to gestures, from the underground to the sky.
