Now, look at the top of the lamp post, you'll see a coat of arms — the coat of arms of Évora itself. Look closely and you'll spot a knight on horseback, riding boldly, with two severed heads visible beneath him. This is Geraldo Sem Pavor — Gerald the Fearless — the man who gave this square its name, and arguably the most important figure in Évora's history. The story goes like this. In eleven hundred and sixty-five, Gerald was a knight in service to Afonso Henriques, Portugal's first king. The Moors still held Évora, and the city's hilltop walls made a direct assault near impossible. So Gerald came by night. Under cover of darkness, he scaled the walls alone and killed the two Moorish guards — a man and a woman — who held the keys to the city gates. He seized those keys, opened the gates, and let the Christian army pour in. Évora fell, and the city became part of the young Portuguese kingdom. Whether every detail is historically accurate or embellished by centuries of retelling, the legend made Gerald a national hero. His image — the fearless knight with the heads of his enemies — became the coat of arms of the city and decorates lamp posts, official buildings, and documents across Évora to this day. It's a brutal image by modern standards, but it reflects the violent reality of the Reconquista and the reverence the city still holds for the man who, as legend tells it, delivered them from Moorish rule in a single daring night. We can now move to our next stop.