Évora loved rum and cigarettes.
From Évora, it's an easy drive back to Lisbon airport.
Évora, ecclesiastical metropolis and temporary residence of the Court,
emerged immediately as the most suitable city.
In Évora, PhD was another luminary of the Iberian culture of that time,
the Jesuit Francisco Suárez, then a professor at the University of Coimbra.
Évora participated thus the global trend of turning
back to Transpirenaica Europe that characterized the majority of elites and Iberian cultural institutions of the Old Regime.
The prestige of the University of Évora during the two centuries of its existence first phase confused with the prestige
and the scientific value of its teachers.
In 1973, by decree of the then Minister of Education, José Veiga Simão, he created the University
Institute of Evora which was to be abolished in 1979, to make way for the new University of Évora.