Mora

Mora lies in the Alentejo, amid a countryside marked by monuments far older than the Portuguese kingdom. The Anta de Pavia began as a Neolithic burial chamber and was converted into a chapel dedicated to Saint Denis in the early seventeenth century. A document of 1293 mentions an estate called Cabeça de Mora, an early record of the name. The municipality received a charter from Manuel I in 1519, giving the settlement a place in the network of local jurisdictions of the kingdom.