Contacts
Rua 5 de Outubro, 40-44
7920-368 Vila Nova da Baronia
(Alvito)
Portugal

WHO WE ARE
They say that everything takes longer here. That everything is calm. That everything is slow. We say that we are on the right side of life. At the right pace of existence. There are 300 days of sunshine a year. The silence here does not bother us.


It was the repeatedly painted walls of the hermitages, chapels and churches of Alentejo that led us to create the first cultural tourism route, 25 years ago – the Rota do Fresco: we wanted everyone to be able to go beyond the doors so repeatedly closed to this heritage and marvel at a monumental scenography of color .
As the Frescos are made exclusively from local raw materials – lime, river sand and natural pigments –, we quickly expanded our curiosity to the other heritages of the region : montado, marble, terroir gastronomy , cultural practices, centuries-old traditions…
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This unique whole has proven to be the cause of a very particular “way of being” that continues to be experienced in the Alentejo: leisure, human scale, sustainability, light, tranquility, beauty .






Spira COMUNIDADE
Porque acreditamos que todos temos responsabilidades para com a nossa comunidade: workshops com artesãos locais, jantares comunitários, mesas-redondas e aulas de português para estrangeiros, tudo em regime pro bono e na esperança de contribuir para espaços e comunidades vivas de aprendizagem, cultura e convivência.

Spira ROTA DO FRESCO
A Rota do Fresco® surgiu assim como um projecto de desenvolvimento territorial de base patrimonial: visitas e entradas em edifícios de outra forma inacessíveis, Workshops de pintura a fresco e Campos Património – Voluntariado Internacional em Património Cultural são algumas das principais acções da 1ª rota de turismo cultural em Portugal.













