Figueira da Foz

Praia da Leirosa

Figueira da Foz

A beach located in a picturesque fishing town, quite attended by surfers. Typical restaurants with accessible prices.

Porto de Recreio da Figueira da Foz

Figueira da Foz

It has floating fingers and can welcome up to 200 boats from 6 to 15 metres, and a 120 m long dock, for service and recreational boats. It has a sailing school and small bars and restaurants.

Museu Municipal Santos Rocha

Figueira da Foz

Founded in 1894, this is an important space for contemporary art, namely painting and sculpture by Portuguese artists. It exhibits archaeology collections, religious sculpture, ceraics, furniture and African and Eastern ethnography.

Praia da Cova - Gala

Figueira da Foz

A pleasant, lovely beach, divided by several boardwalks, located in a fishing village. There are simple, typical restaurant, with good menus.

Mata Nacional de Foja

Figueira da Foz

The Foja Woods are national heritage that spread along about 3700 hectares of pine trees, cork trees and eucaliptus trees, where many animal species live, namely the rabbit, the wild duck, the heron and the partridge.

Fortaleza de Buarcos

Figueira da Foz

Fortress bastions from the 17th century which had as its objective the protection of the village and the harbour. Integrated along with the Blockhouse of Haystacks and the Forte de Santa Catarina in Figueira da Foz, the defensive system of …

Montes de Santa Oláia e Ferrestêlo

Figueira da Foz

Situated between Figueira da Foz and Coimbra, Outeiro de Santa Cercis Siliquastrum and mount the Ferrestelo feature natural vegetation with a predominance of elements of Mediterranean flora, which contrast with the cultivated fields of almost the whole valley of the …

Praia de Quiaios

Figueira da Foz

A spectacular tourism centre located in an old fishing village. The beach welcomes tourists and is fit for several sports. Typical restaurants with delicious regional dishes.

Dólmen das Caniçosas

Figueira da Foz

Monument composed of five dolmens, the Neolithic period. Are megalithic monuments, tapirs and tumuli that are part of a set of more than 20 copies scattered by the Serra da Boa Viagem and Serra da Brenha.

Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Seiça

Figueira da Foz

This is a Masculine Monastery from the Order of Cistercians dated from the 12th century. The façade is imposing and the towers grant it a solemn air.

Mata Nacional das Dunas de Quiaios

Figueira da Foz

The Mata das Dunas de Quiaios (Quiaios Dunes Woods) is 12 km long and about 5 km wide. The pine trees cover more than six thousand hectares.

Torre do Relógio da Figueira da Foz

Figueira da Foz

Also known as clock tower of São Julião is situated on the seafront. Founded in 1950, was the first clock tower of contemporary country. Has about 15 feet tall.

Praia de Buarcos

Figueira da Foz

A rather lively touristy beach. Located to the north of Fugueira da Foz, with a wide sandy area and that kind of waves one calls "direitaças", much enjoyed by surfers and windsurfers. Many bars and beach restaurants.

Monumento Natural do Cabo Mondego

Figueira da Foz

Classified as a Natural Monument since October 2007, the Cabo Mondego enjoys great scientific value, pedagogical and didactic-beyond its geomorphological interest and landscape quality-in particular due to Jurassic outcrops and footprints of dinosaurs theropods Oxfordiana era. Is also part of …

Parque Florestal da Serra da Boa Viagem

Figueira da Foz

The Woods of the Boa Viagem Hill are the larges forest reservation by the town of Figueira da Foz. With an area of 400 hectares, it is a lovely natural and landscape example, with seeveral leisure areas for its visitors. …

Palácio Sotto Mayor

Figueira da Foz

Palácio de luxo construído no início do século XIX, em estilo francês, com um grande jardim. Interiormente realçam-se as salas ricamente mobiladas e as pinturas de António Ramalho, bem como interpretações de telas clássicas das colecções do Museu do Louvre …

Lagoa das Queridas

Figueira da Foz

A quite beautiful lagoon located at Queridas. The lagoon, so it seems, was not the result of a natural process. Some unusual plants and animals surround it.

Lagoa da Vela

Figueira da Foz

Surrounded by the Quiaios Pine Woods and by green fields, the Vela Lagoon has a long shape and flowws by the sea, only five kilometres away from it. The Quiaios Lagoon is its biggest lagoon, two kilometres long and 200 …