Iron Blue

Iron Blue

Costa Azul in Portugal Discover

One of the most valuable assets of the Riviera (or Cote d'Azur) is found in nature. 60,000 hectares of protected governed by regulations and special measures of protection are the best that nature offers and humanity has been able to keep.

Tajo, fossil cliffs Caparica, Arrábida, Sado, Santo Andre and lagoons of southwest Alentejo Coast and Sancha are names that reflect the best of our landscape and the best preserved areas of our environment.

The Tagus Estuary Nature Reserve with him Setúbal estuarine waters, marshes and swamps, salt marshes, islands and farmland has a population of 80,000 birds in winter and is a sanctuary for the rarest species in Europe.

About 13 miles of beaches is an area of high environmental value mental, which is at the same time, leisure and entertainment.

Fossil Cliffs Caparica protected landscape is a geological formation of great beauty, surrounded by flora and fauna.
Arrábida Nature Park is the natural link between Sesimbra, Palmela and Setúbal, and is the meeting point of the Green majestic hills and the sea, blue and bleeding, which is beyond the cliffs, small beaches difficult access and low sand dunes.

The Sado Estuary is a region rich in life and is a meeting point River and ocean that has enabled channels, streams and wetlands cliffs of Costa de Caparica Fossil will become the headquarters of two mammalian such as otters, badgers and foxes, and about a hundred species of birds including the white stork, Marsh Harrier and the heron.

El Santo André and Sancha Lagoons Natural Reserve consists of two coastal lagoons and a system of small freshwater lakes formed in depressions between the dunes. The reserve also covers a coastal strip of sandy substrate.

The Southwest Alentejo and the coast of St. Vincent Natural Park is ideal a journey along the west coast of southern Portugal. Beaches, cliffs, well-kept villages, Roman ruins, a chapel dating from fifteen cents and the Atlantic Ocean, As in the eye can see.

The dolphin, symbol of the Costa Azul, is a species often distinguished in the Sado and the perfect host of world where nature is both a surprise and discovery.

In the Costa Azul, a moment of beach and coastline. Costa da Caparica, Melides and Troia affirm Carvalhal unlimited space, the sand stretches beyond the horizon.

Arrábida Portinho Porto Covo and reveal the scale the intimate little beach. Sesimbra shows how Portuguese marine life shows and artisanal fisheries.
Costa Azul is the manufacturer of the Atlantic beaches. Great beaches, where the dunes meet the sea. Discreet in the Meeting of the hill ranges and the ocean. In the southern sun.

The sea, blue and vast, unspoiled sand and peaceful. These qualities lead us to an invitation: sleep a summer on the Riviera. In the Costa Azul, the sea and river.

The Atlantic Ocean, the river of traditional crafts and discrete distances. Inside dams to form plains of water. Yachting, windsurfing, water skiing, canoeing, rowing, surfing, body boarding, jet boating, diving and fishing to fill Blue Coast with activity and color. yacht clubs and activity centers subsea and marine tourism companies provide the support necessary than ever.

Tajo basin scale and Gale (age lighters salt) Sado River offering trips through tradition and history. Boats routinely offer a promise surprises glare and dolphins. The dolphins are a symbol of the sea and the nature of the Riviera. A year of adventure and discovery in the Sea Coast d'Azur.

The museums, archeology and monuments that bear on a trip when the rich history of the Costa Azul. At the bottom traces of history Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Iron Age reveal the origins of the human adventure, the opening gestures of humanity and the challenge survival.

Roman presence left along the Blue Coast's geography is still important to include the activities of a facility industrial, resorts, shrines and a racetrack.

The history and the passage of time has left the Riviera with a remarkable track or medieval castles, Renaissance palaces, mansions, churches, chapels, monasteries and shrines you to make an appointment with one of the world these days.
Museums also provide an alternative vision of our way of life for centuries.

In all municipalities, museums, reflecting other forms and realities, revealing our collective memory and the art exhibition visions, traditional crafts, ethnography, customs, celebrations and moments that history has been maintained and the future wants to preserve.

In Costa Azul, history and heritage are a constant feature. The opportunities and meetings with the Heritage is located in every city, every town, each corner of the region. In the Riviera, a place of history and once in the memory.

The culture of a people is the memory which is built every day and experienced at festivals, fairs and festivals, cultural events and crafts, a bullfight.

Costa Azul is rich and various events are organized each year, a schedule of meetings with tradition, the sense of religion, love of the party and celebration, the display of what makes us unique, the construction of our identity.

Whatever the month or the time during the year the Costa Azul is always an event that takes place, a conclusion will be a festive occasion. In each municipality, the South, where the coast and plains link Tagus, a world of events awaits, the culture of our people still and always remember and continue.

In addition to the Blue Sea coast has a rural, within the world where everything is sweet, and peace. tranquility. The relief is in itself an invitation to the horizon where the cork oak and rise to intense blue light and a permanent summer.

The typical houses of Alentejo mark the presence of humanity and reveals how gently attached to the landscape. The towns are white, the houses met in exemplary harmony, the castle guard and proud.

Tradition is not just a memory, but is alive and is a part of the world today. Food that tastes of earth and craft techniques that maintain and transform the materials are a constant feature that has not lost. In the Costa Azul, travel through the flat floor covered with vines, which flows into sea

The Cote d'Azur with its southness, its plains, its blue lagoons, historic centers are a heritage of great wealth. The traditions, tastes, arts and crafts to remember the pleasures of yesteryear.

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