Occupying a total area of 35 hectares, the Biological Park of Vila Nova de Gaia aims to be a center for environmental education, with a pedagogical purpose that involves understanding the landscape of the region and the contrast between the agroforestry landscape and the urban surroundings. Thus, the visitor can contact with hundreds of animal and plant species in the wild. It also has a recovery center for animals found injured or held in captivity illegally, and a plant nursery.

The Vinhais Biological Park aims to preserve, promote and interpret the typical region landscape, offering outdoor experiences such as hiking, donkey rides, wildlife observation and sporting activities. In addition to being a Park, it is also a natural reserve, promoting the protection of the region's fauna and flora, an ecomuseum, conserving and promoting traditional architecture and crafts, and a monument to local culture.

In this park, you can find the most representative autochthonous species of the area, including 150 plant species. You will find deer, wild boar, Serra da Estrela dogs, fallow deer, pheasants, partridges and foxes. In a total area of six hectares, there are marked routes covering an area of about three hectares, allowing visitors to enjoy privileged contact with nature.

Located at the Monsanto Park, this space organizes several didactic and sportive activities created specially for the children, such as parades, theatre, workshops and radical sports. To the grown up, the park offers biology, hydrology, climatology and history exhibitions, among others.

This space is located in the Vasco da Gama Garden and is prepared with amusement equipment to receive children and elderly people with physical and mental disabilities, promoting conviviality between generations.

Created by the Valongo Town Hall in cooperation with the Faculty of Science of Oporto's University,The Palozoic Park intends to preserve and divulge the fossil areas in Valongo and of its flora and fauna.It is an open space, in the region's hills.

Park with around seven hectares, whose objective is to make the Madeira archipelago known differently. To this end, it has four multimedia pavilions: "Discovery of the Islands", "Future of the Earth", "Fantastic Journey in Madeira" and "A world of Islands, the islands of the World". Other ex-libris are also represented, such as the ox carts, the traditional Santana house, the Monte train and the mill. It also has a natural auditorium, a garden park, a children's playground, a lake and a labyrinth.

Park opened in 1998, in a space measuring around four kilometers, where you can observe 250 species of animals in conditions close to their natural habitats. It is a unique park of its kind, in which, through a relaxing walk through a beautiful Mediterranean forest, you can observe dozens of animals, both domestic and wild.

A diversions park with a lake and animals.

A large park with a synthetic pavement, with lawns and trees.It has several equipments for radical sports, such as a half pipe, a sports ring, a ramp and skating bars.It has also a children's playground and a picnic area.