Military Museum of Elvas

2 hours well spent

3 euro to visit. Its quite old-fashioned, all artefacts, no history, but its got lots of vehicles, and nearly everything is labelled in English. A bonus is the access to the fortifications in that cor...

2 hours well spent

3 euro to visit. Its quite old-fashioned, all artefacts, no history, but its got lots of vehicles, and nearly everything is labelled in English. A bonus is the access to the fortifications in that cor...

Visiting Elvas.

Also need to visit is the “Military Museum” located in the “Quartel do Casarão”». The name of the barracks was placed in memory of a large building that Cosmander, a Dutch Jesuit, had demolished in th...

Visiting Elvas.

Also need to visit is the “Military Museum” located in the “Quartel do Casarão”». The name of the barracks was placed in memory of a large building that Cosmander, a Dutch Jesuit, had demolished in th...

A cup half-full

We went here because another visitor the day before was raving about the place. Lucky them had a free entry as it was a public holiday. We visited the next morning so had to pay a few euros to get in...