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Village Door (Reguengos de Monsaraz): this door is the main access to the village. Two semicylindrical cubic turrets protect its defensive structure. Over the ogival arch of the door there’s a marble tablet that celebrates the consecration of the Kingdom to the Immaculate Conception by D. João V (1616). Olival da Pega Cromlechs (Reguengos de Monsaraz): these megalithic monuments are about 14 km from Reguengos de Monsaraz, near Telheiro. Recent archaeological works have revealed that the number 2 cromlech is more than that. It’s a real funerary complex that includes, besides the dolmen four funerary joined areas. The number 1 cromlech is easily located because of the chamber support and a big mass of tumbled stones. The remains found (134 schist plaques and 200 ceramic vessels) show that this dolmen was a wide collective necropolis. Lover’s Rock Menhir (Reguengos de Monsaraz): this granitic natural monument looks like a mushroom. It’s more than 2 m high and its top is always covered with small loose stones. This menhir is also known as the fertility stone. According to tradition, still followed today, single girls, performing an old pagan fertility rite, go there on the first Monday after Easter to throw a stone to the top of the menhir and consult it about marriage. Each failed launching represents a year waiting.