Description Crato

Located in Alto Alentejo, 22 km west of Portalegre, Crato is a Municipality of Living History, with a past marked by the presence of megalithic pastors and their habits and culture. In this municipality alone, more than 70 tapirs are inventoried, two of which are National Monument: Tapir Tapir and Tapir Crato.

The Municipality of Crato is also marked:
- For the Roman occupation, example of its villas, habitat and bridges;
- For the name and experience of the Order of Hospitallers (later the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta) and of D. Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, 1st Prior of Crato, who lifts the imposing Monastery of Santa Maria de Flor da Rosa to the seat of the Order and the Palácio do Grão-Prior (architecture attributed to Miguel Arruda) of which only the imposing veranda and a big window remain);
- For the glamor of the Baroque era with its palaces distributed throughout the county;
- For the royal weddings of D. Manuel I with D. Leonor and D. João III and D. Catarina, celebrated in the Paços do Castelo (Palácio Teixeira Guerra), in the village of Crato, with pomp and circumstance.