about the place
Reguengos de Monsaraz is a city in the District of Évora, in Central Alentejo, and the seat of a municipality covering 464 km² with 9,871 inhabitants (2021). The seat of the municipality moved from Monsaraz, which received its royal charter on 15 January 1276, to Reguengos in 1838, definitively in 1851; Reguengos was raised to the status of town in 1840 and of city on 9 December 2004. The municipality has four parishes: Campo e Campinho, Corval, Monsaraz and Reguengos de Monsaraz, with villages such as São Marcos do Campo, São Pedro do Corval, Telheiro and Monsaraz. It was European Wine City in 2015, and the hillside of Monsaraz overlooking the Guadiana and the Alqueva reservoir is a destination for rural tourism. The municipal holiday falls on 13 June, the feast of Santo António.
