the region
				Mourão is a municipality of Alentejo, with frontiers made predominantly of schist, with agricultural use of cereals and olives and wines that spread by different shades of a undulating green terrain. Rainy in the winter and dry in the summer, it features an explosion flowers and color in the spring, just to lose them in the autumn, when it takes its already characteristic yellowish complexion.

Located in the left bank of the Guadiana river, now transformed into the Alqueva dam, the largest artificial lake in all of Europe. The recently completed dam, was the largest, most rapid and radical transformation of any piece of landscape that Alentejo has seen in recent centuries, submerging one third of the Mourão’s municipality, including where the primitive town of Mourão had arisen many centuries ago, and also Aldeia da Luz, wich has since been moved to a new location.

				The new Aldeia da Luz is currently the most recent village in the world, dating only from 2003, recently twinned with the French village Sur Verdon by its common denominator, the sinking of its original site, even if phased by 30 years.