Requalified Ecopist between Évora and Arraiolos and prolonged until Mora

Um project will advance in 2027 to requalify the ecopist installed in the old railway branch between Évora and Arraiolos and complete the connection to Mora, for a total of 60 kilometers, was today released.

Developed by the Central Alentejo Intermunicipal Community (CIMAC) in partnership with municipalities, the initiative involves an investment of 1.5 million euros and integrates the Central Alentejo Ecoplist Network – Grande Rota do Montado.

“The Great Route of the Mount had already a first phase completed, the connection of Évora to Reguengos de Monsaraz. Now, it will continue via Arraiolos to Mora ", stressed today to the agency Lusa the president of CIMAC and also autarch of Évora, Carlos Zorrinho.

Marking the joint work of the entities involved, the responsible recalled that the project aims to “use old sections of railways for space of smooth mobility, running, cycling and other types of activity”.

“The ecopist is one of the things people in Évora value a lot for their quality of life,” said the mayor, also highlighting that these roads are “more and more a point of interest for tourists.”.

According to CIMAC, the project, developed under a sub-concession contract of the railway branches deactivated from the Central Alentejo, has funding from the program “Crescer com o Turismo”, do Turismo de Portugal.

This intervention in the former Ramal de Mora involves an overall investment of EUR 1.5 million, with an incentive of about 1.2 million from the “Grow with Tourism” programme.

Another source of CIMAC explained to Lusa that, now, a review of the project will be made, and the tender for the project will be launched by this intermunicipal community in 2027.

The first section of this ecopist, between Évora and Graça do Divor, in the same county, was inaugurated on April 25, 2005.

The Great Route of the Mount was inaugurated in September 2024 with the opening of an ecopist, with about 37 kilometers, that crosses the municipalities of Évora, Redondo and Reguengos de Monsaraz by the old branch that connected these Alentejo municipalities.