Not for points English to Portuguese Tech/Engineering Tourism & Travel Tourism

One of the poorest, least-developed, least-populated regions in western Europe, the Alentejo has been dubbed both the Provence and the Tuscany of Portugal. Neither is accurate. It’s scenery is not as pretty and, apart from in the capital Evora, its food isn’t as sophisticated.

The charms of this land of wheatfields, cork oak forests, wildflower meadows and tiny white-washed villages, are more subtle than in France or Italy’s poster regions. To travel here is to step back in time 40 or 50 years.

Life rolls along at a treacly pace; there’s an unnerving stillness to the landscape.

But that stillness ends abruptly at the Atlantic Ocean, where there is drama in spades

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This is a touristic description and I haven't found a suitable translation nor do I understand the meaning