Alcácer do Sal is Alcácer do Sal is a town in Portugal, located in the Setúbal District in the Alentejo Litoral region. It has 5 868 people. The town is the main center of the Alcácer do Sal municipality, which is the second largest in the country by area, but has only 11 112 people.
One of the oldest cities in Europe founded in the year 1000 BC by the Phoenicians, a city in the district of Setúbal that stands out for its cultural, archaeological, architectural and religious heritage. Here, we find the Quinta Brejinho da Costa, an oenotourism space dedicated to the transmission of the region’s wine heritage and which assumes the identity of a space for the creation of Atlantic wines.
The natural interest of the region is not only in the vineyards of this farm, and the south bank of Alcácer do Sal features places like the park and the Sado promenade. In addition to nature, the locality also offers contact with spaces of archaeological interest, highlighting the Castle Archaeological Crypt, on the lower floor of Pousada D. Afonso II, where we find traces of various historical periods between the 5th century BC and the 17th century. In terms of historical, cultural and architectural interest.
The Igreja de Santiago is also a landmark in the locality, constituting an ancient Christian temple whose first historical mention dates from the 17th century and which presents a Baroque and Mannerist aesthetic, translated into a simple facade and rich interior. Inside, the most relevant elements are the paintings, including the equestrian painting of Saint James behind the altar and the panels of 19th century tiles, with scenes about the life of Saint James and the Virgin.
Another example of the religious architecture of Alcácer do Sal is the Sanctuary of Senhor dos Mártires, one of the oldest temples in Portugal and whose history dates back to the Iron Age, when it was a public necropolis. The construction of the current sanctuary will have started in the 13th century.
