Attractions and Places To See around Brinches - Top 18

This border town of Serpa, in the Alentejo region, surrounded by the walls of its medieval castle, crucial for the defense of Portugal, offers a range of surprising experiences and sensations. After the first "taste" (and we are not just talking about the famous cheese), you will want more of Serpa. Heritage, landscape, people, and local culture form a whole.

The Serpa Aqueduct is a well-preserved gem that speaks to the strategic importance of this town and its role throughout history. If you're passing through here, I recommend paying it a visit.

Azenha da Ordem is a true hidden treasure, a watermill that reserves a pleasant surprise for those who discover it. Situated in a privileged position, here the water flows with surprising power and abundance, creating a vibrant and vital atmosphere. This enchanting place is one of those beautiful, evocative and almost intimate places that Portugal holds. Still little known and little visited, Azenha da Ordem offers an authentic experience, allowing you to enjoy a rare privilege: the uncontaminated beauty and tranquility of a corner of the world where nature and history blend harmoniously.

The castle houses the Municipal Museum of Archaeology. The castle walls are accessible. The elevator was out of service at the end of May 2025.

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Reigning over the town, Serpa’s castle is a charming ruin after being sacked by the Spanish and lying abandoned since the 1600s. But that takes nothing away from the monument, as its battlements are still intact and you can scramble up to survey the town and the Alentejo countryside. There has been some kind of fortress up here since at least the Romans, but this castle’s timeline begins with the Moors in the 700s. During the Reconquista in the 12th and 13th centuries the it was besieged by both Christian and Moorish forces before Afonso III finally conquered the Algarve to the south. Get a good look at the fabric of the walls, as you might discover some recycled Roman funerary stones with inscriptions still legible.

Arriving at Azenha da Ordem you will be pleasantly surprised, a mill in a place with a privileged view and where the water flows with strength and commitment. It is incredible how there are beautiful, inspiring and almost private places. And this is one of them, a true treasure and still little known and visited. What a privilege, right? In "Saber Viajar"

The Hermitage of São Pedro in Serpa is a historic church located in the parish of União das freguesias de Salvador e Santa Maria, in the municipality of Serpa, in the district of Beja. This hermitage is an example of Manueline, Mannerist and popular religious architecture, with vernacular characteristics. The hermitage is known for its stone masonry walls, white and pink lime walls, gilded altar, stone baptismal font and images of the four apostles. The paintings and murals in the vault of the main nave are also notable...