São Lourenço Bay, also known as the "Rising Sun" Bay, is a beautiful area surrounded by vineyards separated by meadows, with the blue sea as a backdrop. The lush green landscape and the blue ocean create a truly enchanting setting. The area covers approximately 113 hectares and has been designated a nature reserve since 1987. It is freely accessible to anyone who wishes to visit.

Located in a picturesque fishing village, this beach boasts a long, calm stretch of sand, tranquil waters, good infrastructure, and a variety of restaurants. The area features a market, numerous shops, the Arts Centre, and the Ria Formosa Natural Park, all offering excellent reasons for a stroll. If you visit Manta Rota in August, don't miss the craft fair that takes place annually at this time.

A farm of great beauty, where lush vegetation stands out, a mini-zoo with numerous birds, and a mini-botanical garden. A stroll can be synonymous with discovery, and here you can appreciate diverse botanical species, animals, sounds, and colors that Carlos Afonso, the owner of this natural space, once wanted to share with all who visit. A small oasis for all ages.

Garden unequalled in Portugal, the visit to this ex-libris is essential. The Paço Garden, annexed to the former bishop’s palace, was sent to build by the Guarda bishop, Dom João de Mendonça, in 1725. The beautiful baroque garden has various lakes, cascades, water spouts, staircases and statues. The Kings Staircase immortalizes all the Portuguese kings in granite, from Dom Afonso Henriques to the King Dom José I. Among the box appear symbolic statues from which stand out the four Men’s ultimate purposes, the cardial virtues, the theological virtues, the signs of the zodiac, the five parts of the world, the …

Five minutes from some of the best beaches in the country-Arrifana and Amoreira Clerics Hills, excellent for surfing or to be with her family, Muxima-Montes Ferreiros is collected in the forest of cork oaks, esteva and Arbutus, spotting the castle of Aljezur which is only 1 km away. The peace of the countryside surrounds the two houses that look at each other through the Grove of an unspoilt nature and wild. They're both traditional design and construction and making Africa here so close. Inside, each room reproduces the memory of places in the world where if fills the heart.

This building has two bodies: nave and main chapel. The church presents a façade with a lintel main door and framed jambs. It stands out the strong fitomorphic application that surrounds it. In the beginning of the century it was inserted a watch. It possesses a bell tower with a clear marking of two registers in which the bell is in the last one. The tower is topped by a balustrade and roof in the shape of a needle. On the main chapel it stands out the lateral walls displaying three windows with an interesting plastic work. The floor is …

Opened in 2011, this restaurant is located in the Centre of the village of Ervedosa. Retrieving old family recipes, proposes some of the regional recipes that always were prepared on Thursdays do Douro. A traditional line joins other more innovative looking for, on the one hand, offer these recipes a more sophisticated presentation and, on the other hand, perform a creative cuisine where relate so exuberant local raw material with the new forms of knitting and presentation. The list also includes a generous wine list for tasting with cheeses and desserts, and the particularity to have wine by the glass …

All the preserved villages at Armamar are part of a recovery project of the Rural Centre of São Martinho das Chãs. The village of São Martinho das Chãs is quite well recovered, both regarding the houses and the streets, with a perfect preservation of its rustic traits. In the village, one may visit the 13th century church, the Mother Church. From the campanile one has the most beautiful views.

A circular pedestrian trail where one may visit the Fraga do Cucu, that brings to mind the image of a bird standing on a rock, the Cortelhos bridge, the alto das Barreiras, where the population took refug during the French invasions. It also passes by a unique nature built place, where the rocks sculpt curious ffects on the water. It is recommended that one takes this trail in the springtime of in the fall.

This street that was, for a long time, the goldsmith street, was built in the XVI century, by order of the King Dom Manuel I. Nowadays this street is worthy of a visit not because of the goldsmith's shops windows but because of the buildings that keep the characteristics of other times, namely the iron balconies. It is on this street that you’ll find the Misericóridia Church, dated from the XVI century and rebuilt from 1748 on, according to Nicolau Nasoni’s proposal.