Visit the Urban Park of the River Ul - São João da Madeira

The Urban Park of the River Ul, located in S. João da Madeira, was designed by the architect Sidónio Pardal, and has a total area equivalent to almost 30 football fields, the Urban Park of the Rio Ul is outlined by granite walls. From the inside you can see paths that invite walking or cycling.

Visitors to the Urban Park of the Rio Ul also have at their disposal the House of Nature where there is a bar and a reception room / environmental interpretation center, as well as a space of bathhouses.

Visit the Ferreira de Castro Park - São João da Madeira

The Ferreira de Castro Park, located in São João da Madeira, is a pleasant green space, suitable for leisure and recreational activities for all ages.

It has maintenance circuit, mini golf, playground, playground, gerontological park (playground for the elderly) and picnic area.

Also note the cozy bar "A Selva", thus baptized in reference to the work of Ferreira de Castro, writer who gives name to the park, where there is a monument in his honor.

Visit the Museum Ferreira de Castro - San Martinho (Sintra)

Ferreira de Castro Museum, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), came as a result of the donation made by the writer of his estate to the People of Sintra.

The Museum opened its doors on June 6, 1982. Closed for renovations three years later, would reopen on July 22, 1992, after remodeling of the exhibition contents and preparation of a new visitor's guide.

Ferreira de Castro Museum presents chronologically the existential journey of the writer, grouped into seven themes:

"Childhood" (1898-1911), refers to the writer's childhood in "native village" in the Willows, Ossela parish, municipality of Oliveira de Azemeis, a period of intimate contact with the verdant nature of the region, which would mark both it.

"In Brazil - The Amazon jungle to Belem do Para" (1911-1919), recounts the time when Ferreira de Castro lived as a child and alone in a rubber plantation in the Amazon (until 1914) and experience in dramatic and convoluted Of Bethlehem many objects of interest displayed by highlighting the manuscript for Criminal Ambition, Parintintins masks of the Indians (now extinct tribe) land of the plantation where Castro worked, and for copies of Criminal Greed and Alma Lusitana, both of 1916, the first titles he published.

"The Return - Journalism and work renegade" (1919-1927), shows part of the journalistic activity and displays the books that match the first phase Ferreira de Castro - Mas ... (1921) The Flight in the Dark (1927) - which he removed from his complete works which today are bibliographic rarities.

"Triumph - From Emigrants to the direction of the Devil" (1928-1935), "The Last Wanderer" (Travel, 1929-1939), "The Master - The Storm From the Fragments" (1940-1974) include the time Ferreira de Castro who reigned as the preeminent author of Portugal then. It is the period of The Jungle, Cold Land, Wool and Snow, Curve Road, Mission ...

The Portuguese writer translated most of his time in the last room were exposed to translations of his works in several languages.