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Pulo do Lobo

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Pulo do Lobo
7750, Mértola

Mértola

Surrounded by the parishes of Mértola and Serpa, this waterfall is quite beautiful. It is 13.5 metres high, in a rich geological area, where the river passes between two cliffs.

Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana

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Amêndoeira da Serra
7750-302, Mértola

Mértola

Created in 1995, the Guadiana Natural Park, that includes the parishes of Mértola and Serpa, is of great interest in terms of plants, animals, geology and landscapes. The medium part of the Guadiana valley, between Pulo do Lobo and the mouth of the Vascão brook, with its valleys and several tributaries, is beautiful above average. There are boars, little bustards, bustards, otters, black storks, griffins, wild olive trees and Brazilian peppers.

Azenhas do Guadiana

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Mértola
7750, Mértola

Mértola

Water mills took advantage of in the past, the current of the river Guadiana to transform the grain into flour. Today, the mills are leisure venues.

Mina de São Domingos

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Corte do Pinto
7750-102, Corte do Pinto

Mértola

Mining complex installed in the 19th century for the operation of a pyrite mine cuprífera whose deposit was explored as early as Roman and pre-Roman. The main elements extracted during the modern exploration, between 1854 and 1966, were the copper and sulfur. After the closure of the mine equipment was dismantled and sold, leaving today the landscape marked by mining activity and acidic drainage.

Museu de Mértola - Basílica Paleocristã

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Largo do Rossio do Carmo
7750-326, Mértola

Mértola

A space inside the old paleochristian church, with an exhibitions about the beginnings of Christianity.

Mértola

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Mértola
7750, Mértola

Mértola

A picturesque small town, with traditional houses and an imortant heritage. Mértola has the Castle and the Mother Church, both classed as National Monuments, and the paleo-Christian Basilique.

Canais do Rio Guadiana

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Mértola
7750-310, Mértola

Mértola

The channels were used, in the Guadiana, to capture fish. In the municipality of Mértola there are the latest traps of this type, which have fallen out of use, where deviate fish to places where it was easier to catch them.

Torre do Relógio de Mértola

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Rua Dom Sancho II, 15
7750-360, Mértola

Mértola

It is likely that the clock tower was erected in the late 16th century or early 17th century, in the context of the reorganization of the urban area of the Town Hall square. This building was erected in the vicinity of a set of representative structures of political power, judicial and economic administrative and reusing an old Tower of the wall, mark the edge of Town Hall square and take over as one of the emblematic elements from Mértola. In 1896 the primitive clock is replaced by another more recent than will continue to mark the time of the Old …

Praia Fluvial da Tapada Grande

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Praia da Tapada Grande
7750-148, Corte do Pinto

Mértola

A beach located by the São Domingos Mine, that belongs to the Natural Park of Guadiana.

Castelo de Mértola

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Largo da Igreja
7750-338, Mértola

Mértola

Castle of Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with quadrangular towers. The keep is on the hillside more phantasmic Shap. Medieval doors only if conserves of mercy, on the Guadiana river. The ancient Citadel, as well as important sections of the wall that surrounded the population, are still preserved. Archaeological work carried out in the Citadel of the Castle uncovered a Moorish quarter of centuries XII\/XIII, and various Roman structures of the 4th century. The Arab ceramic pieces found are exposed in the core of the Museum of Mértola.

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