Tour Evora and Alentejo with private guide

This is our 2nd private day tour with Anastacia and like the first one, we enjoyed it a lot! She is very knowledgeable about the places we visited, its history, stories and other interesting facts. She is also flexible with time, allowing us to spend more time in the places we were most interested in. She also went above and beyond by suggesting some places and products to shop in and around Lisbon, that we haven’t visited yet in our previous and current trips. We can’t wait to book another tour with her and Kitzel Tours, when we come back to Portugal again in the near future. If you’re looking for an unrushed, relaxed and personalized tour, we highly recommend Kitzel Tours and Anastacia.

Good trip! Recommend for history and adventure and culture and food and fun! Our guide was terrific, Anastasia!

This tour exceeded our expectations as our tour guide Anastasia was a font of knowledge for Évora and the entire Alentejo region. Évora has a distinctive history and is a must visit city when visiting Portugal. A huge bonus was the visit to the cork works as not many of these operations are open to the public. Anastasia was also very knowledgeable about the cork workflow and showed us the different steps. David who is a member of the family owned cork business welcomed us in a very appreciative manner as did his mother and father. A highly recommended tour! Thank you Anastasia!

Our guided tour of Évora was absolutely fantastic. Our guide was amazing! so knowledgeable and passionate about the town’s history, which she brought to life in such an engaging way. She also took us to a wonderful local place to eat that we never would have found on our own. On top of all that, she was genuinely lovely and made the whole experience feel personal. Highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Portugal.

Anastacia was an excellent guide-very knowledgeable and super helpful. The city is charming and loaded with history. I highly recommend this trip!

Anastacia was a fabulous guide. Incredibly knowledgeable and very helpful. The city is charming and full of interesting history. So glad we went!

It was a beautiful drive from Lisbon. I always like to see the countryside. There were huge bird nests in the power poles! And rolling hills with cork trees. The cork factory was very interesting. Evora was interesting, not spectacular, but it made for a very nice day. Our guide Anastasia was wonderful.

Easily one of the very best of our 8 or 9 tours during a two week vacation! From Lisbon, the tour is a very full day event with a substantial 1.5 hour drive in each direction. The tour was small group (4) with our guide Joao. The weather was sunshine and moderate temps in early November. Pre-tour communications with Joao were excellent with several questions and concerns answered by Viator linked texts within minutes ... Even after working hours! Joao was born and raised in the Lisbon area speaks four languages fluently, and was readily capable of answering questions on any Portugese or Iberian Peeninsula question! He opened some new perspectives and insights into Portugese history and Christianity in general. Further, he is well known, and apparently well-liked, by many of the proprietors at the stops along our tour -- especially at the cork factory and restaurant! He was engaging, had a clear idea of our itinerary, and was very accommodating to adjust schedules to our needs! Evora is another beautiful medieval town with unique stories, beautiful cathedrals, aqueducts, and Roman walls that are well preserved. We found the cork factory and the broad array of cork products particularly interesting! Finally we enjoyed a terrific and traditional Portuguese Sunday lunch that was arranged by Joao! Great tour in the Portuguese country-side and highly recommended!

Our private tour guide, Anastacia, was extremely pleasant and knowledgeable! I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone! She made our day in Evora very memorable! She had an impressive amount of knowledge about the cork trees and factory processes. She knew her way around Evora and offered us many options of what to see and do. For lunch, she recommended a wonderful restaurant that we throughly enjoyed. She was an excellent driver and even got the car for us at the end so that we don’t have to walk back to it. She was very attentive to our needs. It was well worth the money to see the cork factory and Evora on a private tour.

One of our priorities in visiting Portugal was to see a cork farm. We investigated renting a car and spending the night in Evora. We are so glad that we found this day tour from Lisbon instead. We felt so free without luggage and not driving. Anastasia gave us a wealth of information about the cork industry as she deftly drove us from Lisbon. Once we arrived at the farm, she demonstrated the various tools that are used and clearly explained in her excellent English the process of extracting the cork from the trees. She showed us differences in the grades of cork and explained the entire process from raw cork to cork ready to ship. We were amazed at her knowledge and felt so fortunate to have a private guide. There were three large tour buses arriving at the same time. Anastasia skillfully and efficiently showed us everything before the huge, impersonal tours started with the large groups. The sights in Evora were the icing on the cake. Again, Anastasia efficiently led us around town explaining clearly what we were seeing and sharing fascinating history. We appreciated the experience of a traditional lunch with her. My husband was thrilled to have her explain and translate with the wait staff while he used his phone to pay for the first time. She made sure that we were always comfortable while touring and in the car. She is a highly experienced and extremely knowledgeable guide. We highly recommend Anastasia as a tour guide and will seek her out again if we return to Lisbon. She is the BEST!