Granite rock located at about 1500 meters of altitude, known for resembling a head in profile.

A 4.5 kilometres trail with the very best of the rural landscapes of Lamas de Mouro.

A leisure area at Castro Laboreiro, with views of the Peneda mountain. It is a wide space with a picnic area that avails several stone tables and benches, as well as a playground and a sports pavilion.

The boiler, a crater of 2000 meters in diameter and 400 meters deep, results from the volcanic nature of the island of Faial. Is a treat for the eyes, since weather conditions are favorable. Inside deserves highlight the botanical diversity of habitats: the laurissilva forest, Cedar forests, peatlands, reeds, among others.

In September 1957 the Earth began to tremble and, from there, Faial was never the same. For 13 months, between September 27, 1957 and October 24, 1958, a volcanic phenomenon completely transformed this tip of Faial island in three distinct eruptive phases. Panicked, the inhabitants of the zone of Capelo and Praia do Norte put themselves on the run, or to the nearby islands or to the United States. Today, one can still verify the results of the eruption: fields and houses buried, the Capelinhos Lighthouse completely unusable (now renovated to the Volcano interpretation centre) and a rugged landscape, almost …

Trilho simples e curto, com início junto aos Moinhos da Apúlia. Este percurso compreende uma distância de 7,40 km e a sua dificuldade reduzida permite que seja percorrido em qualquer época do ano.

The 18km long shoreline, between the mouth of the Neiva river and Apúlia, is a quite rich ecosystem, with a stretch of sandy beaches and dunes that are prompt to erosion. The estuaries of the Neiva and Cávado rivers, together with the pine woods and the farmlands are also a part of this protected area. The fauna is quite rich and includes the gull, the ruddy turnstone, the dunlin, the mallard, the lamprey, the salmon, the eel and more. The flora is also quite original and the ponewoods compose a protection for the dunes.

The complex system of marshy places, salt-pits, canals, puddles, creeks and charcas (big extensions without vegetation), located in the Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António municipalities, was the first Natural reserve of the Portuguese territory. Land, river (Guadiana) and sea mix together, giving origin to a strange but beautiful miscellany, stretching to the mouth with Ayamonte, on the other side, as background scenery. The grounds are fertile in original flora (limelight to the halophytic species) and, specially, in an exotic fauna (avifauna, fishes, crustacean, molluscs, amphibian and reptiles).

Created in 1995, the Guadiana Natural Park, that includes the parishes of Mértola and Serpa, is of great interest in terms of plants, animals, geology and landscapes. The medium part of the Guadiana valley, between Pulo do Lobo and the mouth of the Vascão brook, with its valleys and several tributaries, is beautiful above average. There are boars, little bustards, bustards, otters, black storks, griffins, wild olive trees and Brazilian peppers.

Located to the west of Lisbon, it belongs to the sedimentary line of the Estremadura. It is 10 kilometres long, five kilometres wide, has a perimeter of 30 kilometres and reaches its peak at na altitude of 540 metres, in Cruz Alta. It belongs to the Sintra/Cascais Natural Park and comprises two different sorts of landscapes: one is the wide agricultural area to the north of Colares that includes the plain of Sâo João das Lampas, the other is the shoreline between the mouth of the Falcão river and the Citadel of Cascais, ending in the Cape of Roca. Its …