This friendly restaurant, with simple environment but with a touch of luxury, offers fantastic views over the marina. For a long time only served a plate: empty Brasserie sauce entrecôte (18 ingredients, special sauce made from herbs, Dijon mustard and fine spices) accompanied by thin and crispy fries. In 2006, the menu has been increased with the seitan dish, a great alternative for vegetarians. At the entrances, in addition to the traditional salad, the menu also includes marinated salmon. An ambitious wine that combines image labels and proven quality with new references, accompany the meal. The varied offer of wine …

Go down the Avenida da Liberdade and start on a discovery journey of the town historical centre. Here, you’ll find plenty of interesting points. At the Restauradores square the majestic Foz Palace, in its neo-classical style, and the frontispiece of the old cine-theatre Éden, with a modernist aspect stand out. Following through Rossio, you’ll find the National Theatre D. Maria II and the D. Pedro Statue. Now in the middle of downtown, venture trough the geometrical net of the streets that set up the urban unit built after the earthquake of 1755. Next, follow to Encosta da Sé and visit …

Located at an altitude of 770 metres, on the southeast foothills of the Estrela Mountain, the small town of Loriga was, until 1855, the siege of the parish, with a town hall, a prison and a pillory. Its name comes from an armour. The valley is quite rich in historical vestiges (the romans, the sueves, the visigoths and the moors were there) and several archaeological vestiges remain: a man shaped grave, a roman bridge, a well preserved part of a roman road and a medieval balcony. Loriga is the main town in a lovely valley that was originated by a …

This trail departs from the Largo da Oliveira (Olive Tree Square), whose name comes from a time honoured olive tree at its centre. Surrounded by typical northern houses, this place invites to a unhurried walk. A special note to the small gothic temple built during the reign of Dom Afonso IV, the Church of Our Lady of Oliveira (or Colegiada), the gothic monument whose construction was odered by Dom João I, the Museum Alberto Sampaio, the medieval building of the old Paços do Concelho, the Square of Saint Tiago and the Street of Saint Maria, the Convent of Saint Clara, …

This parish was born from the recent Administrative Division of the Municipality of Ferreira do Alentejo, in 1988. Its settlement took place in very early times, perhaps in the Miocene period, according to some studies carried out by the City Council. The Romans left in this area evident marks of the new civilization that they transported to the Iberian Peninsula, and which, in the case of Canhestros, took place at a very late period. In addition to traces of an old Roman walkway, several fragments of common pottery, tegulae and imbrices were discovered. The Roman people, in the region where …

This palace in castle shape has manifested Italian influences in the main body, which is a 16th century construction from where an elegant Renaissance loggia stands out on the frontage and on the shed galleys on the back door. It also stands out the fifteen hundreds stonework, the horseshoe windows semi – detached (Mudéjar), the frescoes from Moorish inspiration, the fountain and fresh garden house, the cylindrical small towers, besides several other traces from Gothic structures. This ensemble underwent several additions and changes throughout the centuries, distributing by different pavilions from different times. On the inside it is worth to …

The infrastructure located next to the Vilarinho das Furnas Museum is the ideal place to receive tourists and provide them with a wide range of information about the National Park, specifically what they can visit, thus becoming an Interpretive Center for the National Park. The space is composed of seven themed rooms, namely: “History of the Earth I and II” – describing the formation of the Serra Gaúcha; the “History of Rain” room, which portrays water and all biodiversity with emphasis on riparian vegetation; the “Forest Room”; the “Territory, Museum and Mountain” room, which addresses the occupation of the territory …

A new field in the Lisbon area that makes the Mastic a privileged Centre for the practice of golf, thanks to two neighbouring paths and a considerable area of practice. A concept quite different from golf Aroeira I course, materialized in "greens" fast and large that actually exceed the 700 m2 and are equipped with grass Penn A2, causes the Aroeira II is the first Portuguese golf course to use in the "greens" such a kind of grass, which can be cut to 2 mm. in spite of the inviting "greens", notes a growing difficulty of hole 1 to 9 …

The Salt Mines are located in the Serras D'Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park, 30 kilometers from the sea. The oldest reference to this natural resource dates back to the 12th century, and the use of rock salt is believed to date back to prehistoric times. Given the ease with which rainwater penetrates limestone, the streams eventually become underground. Thanks to one of these currents, the water becomes salty as it passes through the rock salt deposit. After being drawn from the well, it flows to concentrators and from there back to the distribution basin. Then, it flows to the butchers …

The set of the house and garden is one of the most expressive of Portuguese art from the romantic and naturalist period. The gardens, recovered in 1992, English style from the XIX century, have an exotic and romantic atmosphere with a lake and a bandstand. It also has sculptures by Portuguese artists of that time such as Bordalo Pinheiro or Columbano. Dated from 1849, the farm is also called "Quinta do Beau-Séjour". Inside is worthy of notice the decoration at the dinning room made by the brothers of Bordalo Pinheiro, working under the painter Francisco Vilaça. Enjoy the luxurious stucco …