Woman with white winter jacket leaving historic fortress gate


Elvas is a fortified garrison border town in the southern portuguese Alentejo region making frontier with spanish Badajoz. It is considered to be the larges bulwarked dry ditch system in the world and belongs to Unesco World Heritage.


Size: 6016px × 4016px
Location: Elvas, Alentejo, Portugal
Photo credit: © Cro Magnon / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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