Building built in 1898 for tourist purposes. The casino consists of the Salão Nobre (Salão Cafée), a restaurant in the basement, bars and other rooms, where you can see a large influx of people having fun or looking for some luck.

A garden located at the Rocha Beach hillside with lovely panoramic sea views. A good looking space with a wide variety of plants and cactus with flowers. Curvy trails in the typical Portuguese pavement lead the visitors to pleasant corners with sea views.

Building with contemporary architecture and Baroque and Rococo. Was once a House of Alentejo and now housing adapted to the cultural center. Some of the decorative elements are 18th-century Rococo tile and with shell motifs, bat wings, among other reasons.

Building with political and administrative\/civil architecture, 17th century and 19th century times. What were the Municipal Town Hall during three centuries are now dwelling house with three floors. Present a cared for, Classicist and sober.

The former Compressor Center of the Algares Mine, now a museum. The building was constructed in the 1950s, and the compressed air plant began operating in 1952. In the early 1990s, it was decommissioned, leaving only the Compressor Center in the Moinho Mine building in operation.

Parish church dating back to 1550 and rebuilt in the 17th century. Features of mannerist architecture, and neoclassical revival. It consists of side chapels originally and now torn by a vaulted Dome, a ship with wooden ceiling and, abroad, a Bell Tower.

The old area of Coimbra is characterized by narrow and steep streets that lead to the top of the hill, where the city was born. This tour begins at the Ferreira Borges Street, where the Almedina arch draws the boundaries of the old city. Climbing the Quebra Costa Street ladders, on the left you will find the Arch and the Palace Sub Ripas, from the XVI century, with a renaissance façade, a work of João de Ruão. Further ahead, the Anto Tower marks the memory of the poet António Nobre (1867 – 1900). In the middle of the slope, be …

Permanent exhibition of Madeira embroidery, since the 1860s until about 1930. it owns decorative objects, furniture and clothes from the same period. Here you’ll get to know the story of embroidery making process.

A pedestrian walk that is about 8 km long and has eight stops is offered by the Ecomuseum. During the walk, one gets to know the regional natural and cultural heritage. It departs from the main square at Rates.

The Arrimal lagoons are surrounded by calcareous wells. The Lagoa Pequena (Small Lagoon), located by Arrimal, gets the water from its own basin. Both lagoons are surrounded by pyrenean oaks, a species that is rare in this region.