From the castle battlements, you can gaze outward in all four directions, as far as Beja (to the west), Spain, and Moura (to the north). Numerous churches and chapels, with their Baroque and Neoclassical gables and Catholic crosses and bell towers, rise from Serpa's sea of roofs. On a nearby hill, the shrine of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe gleams dazzling white (to the southeast).