Encompassing most of the estuary and its surrounding area (municipalities of Alcácer do Sal, Grândola, Palmela and Setúbal), the Sado Estuary Nature Reserve is a mix of river and sea water, where sandbanks and mudflats, beaches and dunes, and salt marshes and reed beds hide from less curious eyes, in a rich ecosystem with varied fauna and flora. The Reserve is particularly important as a nesting site for waders and ducks, possessing the most significant dolphin population in the country. The marginal areas and areas such as the Tróia dunes and the Herdade do Pinheiro lagoons are an integral part …

Entre Mafra e a Ericeira, a Quinta da Abelheira é um aprazível turismo rural com produção biológica. Com um estilo rural mas contemporâneo, oferece alojamento em quartos e apartamentos, rodeados por um terreno com 40 hectares de agricultura biológica, de onde saem todos os produtos para os pequenos-almoços e brunches. Atividades não faltam, desde passeios a pé ou de bicicleta até passeios de charrete. Durante a estadia, os hospedes podem apreciar, seja no próprio quarto ou na biblioteca, parte da coleção que foi exibida no Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian da "A Obra Perdida" de Emmerico Nunes, …

Miner's House – documentation centre is the first permanent pole of the São Domingos mine Museum. Its construction was the initial contribution to the reconstruction and recovery of the mining village. Associate in this space two features: the museums, with the re-creation of the miner's House and the memory collection, with the installation of the documentation centre. Miner's House shows the physical reality of the living space of a mining family. The objects, the memories, the symbols and the shortcomings are there represented. Above all, plan to lead the visitor's imagination and sensitivity so that it can find the daily …

Granite rectangular plant building, ground floor, roof, Gable, in overlapping slabs in regular rows with cemented joints, based on three arches back perfect and over the ridge of the roof has two rectangular vents. Inside, to the right of the entrance, the tendal and, on the will of the third arc, a masonry platform that supports the two ovens of different dimensions, where the local population continues to bake traditional bread. Is this oven that are baked scones that are distributed, after religious crafts in honor of souls, in the day of noogies Carolo de Santo António (14 June). This …

Ordered to build by d. Mafalda, daughter of King Sancho I in the 13th century, the Church of the Savior of Gândara (as was previously known) is, according to various experts, a modest copy of the Church of Cedofeita, Porto, in particular at the level of decoration, which attests to the roaming of the Romanesque artists in this region of the country. From the 17TH century, this Church also begins to be known as Santa head, due to a skull kept in silver reliquary and exposed in altar, said to belong to a single unknown, and which assigns followed qualities. …

Built on top of a hill, 665 meters above sea level and with an excellent command over the surrounding landscape, this Iron Age fortified town stands out for its trapezoidal plan given by the three lines of granite walls, making it the residential area delimited by the first line of wall torn by three access entrances. A considerable number of fragments of smooth and decorated pottery were collected at the site, which attests to the three periods of occupation found in this town: the Iron Age, Romanization and medieval times. In addition to these elements, several numismas, fibulae, granite millstones, …

Idanha-a-Velha stands on the site of the glorious city of Egitânia, invaded and sacked countless times. Here we find vestiges of prehistory, the Celts, Roman Classicism, the Suevi, the Visigoths, the Arabs, the Portuguese Middle Ages, and buildings from the Manueline period. The Egitaniense Epigraphic Museum is housed in the town's cathedral, originally built on an early Christian temple and the first Visigothic cathedral built in the Iberian Peninsula. Inside, we can see the largest collection of Roman epigraphy in Europe ever found in a single location. Another part of this collection is part of the collections of the Tavares …

With views of Marvão Castle, Dom Dinis is situated at the top of the high village of Marvão. It features a roof-top terrace with panoramic views of the countryside below, and has air-conditioned guestrooms. The traditional rooms have terracotta floors and are decorated in natural tones. All rooms come equipped with a TV and a private bathroom with a hairdryer. Dom Dinis features medieval-inspired décor and also has a communal living room with a fireplace. The hotel is located 6 km from the ruins of the Roman city Ammaia. Nearby leisure activities include hiking and swimming in the Sever River. …

Situated in the Iberian pyrite belt track Alentejo, composed initially of two mines St. John and dens. Is attested in this mining site since there are 2000 years, albeit with periods of interregnum. To learn more about the mines of Aljustrel will visit the four cores of the Museum, whose goal is to show the evolution of human occupation in the municipality putting emphasis on mining. Find them in the parish of Ervidel, where you can visit the Rural Core, and in Aljustrel, where the Windmill, the Dens compressors and the archaeological museum. For more detailed information about this and …

This is one of the rock art sites in the Valley of the Coa, forming a rare set of this type of art, essentially composed of stone engravings dated from the Upper Paleolithic. This core consists of a large natural wall in shale, on the left bank of the River, where we found a set of engravings of reasons perforation, interpreted as being two cattle and a geometric motif also perforation. There are still prints incisas geometrical and remains of a possible motive schematic anthropomorph, located on the right bank of the Ribeira. One can also observe a vertical panel …