In the sun-baked Alentejo region due southeast of Lisbon, the star is a body of water that has radically transformed a land long plagued by droughts: Alqueva Lake. This shimmering reservoir stretches across almost 100 square miles, making it among the largest manmade lakes in western Europe.
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