Elvas

Elvas (), officially the City of Elvas (), is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about east of Lisbon, and about west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The municipality population was 23,078, in an area of . The city itself had a population of 16,640 .

World Heritage site in Portugal

Renaissance songbook of Portuguese secular music from the 16th century

Portuguese football club

was fought on 14 January 1659, in Elvas, between Portugal and Spain