Grândola, in the Setúbal district, is a typical small Alentejan town. Set amidst plains of crops and vast gatherings of cork trees, for which the area is famous, it is hot and dusty in the summer months and yet captures the feeling of a place where people work hard but also take life at a leisurely pace, appreciating their surroundings – often the stereotype of the Alentejan people. It is perhaps its coat of arms which best represents the town, with depictions of fruit bearing trees, a wild boar and a river, the Sado, which would indeed be the life source to the valuable agriculture here.