Visit the Doctor Manuel Braga Park - Almedina (Coimbra)

Doctor Manuel Braga Park, located in the Parish of Almedina, is an emblematic park of the city of Coimbra, with a privileged location by the Mondego River.
It was initially a space belonging to the Benedictine monks, located at the level of the river's waterways, subject to constant flooding. In 1888, the Coimbra City Council bought Ínsua dos Bentos, consisting of orange groves, an open area where horse races were held and a soccer field, where the Academic played. In 1920 it is proposed to transform the old Ínsua dos Bentos into a public garden, being in charge of the project the landscaper from Porto, Jacinto de Matos.
The name of the park was deliberated in order to honor Dr. Manuel Braga, a great driver in the valorization and creation of green spaces in the city, namely the Vale de Canas Forest and the gardens of Av. Sá da Bandeira.

Visit the Beja Picnic Park - Santiago Maior (Beja)

The Beja Merenda Park, located in the parish of Santiago Maior, is associated with the maintenance circuit with an area of approximately 7 ha. Make the connection to the City Park.

The Mata belongs to the urban ecological structure and is connected and contiguous to other important open spaces. This continuity constitutes a predominantly permeable "green waist", with equipment directed to the sports and recreational activities in the open air.

Visit the Serra do Buçaco - Luso

 The Serra do Buçaco, located in the Parish of Luso, once known as Serra de Alcoba, is 549 meters high in the area of ​​the geodesic landmark, located on its plateau, begins in the area of ​​the Eagle's Nest and ends at the famous Mondego Bookstore. It covers the municipalities of Mealhada, Mortágua, Penacova and in its extension contains the Buçaco National Forest (Mealhada), the set of windmills of Portela da Oliveira, the sanctuary of Senhora do Monte Alto and part of the Mondego Bookstore, the three in Penacova.

It is also in this mountain that the waters of Caldas de Penacova are captured. The forest that still exists today in the Serra do Buçaco was commanded to plant by the Order of the Discalced Carmelites in the first quarter of the seventeenth century; the Carmelites also built there the Convent of Santa Cruz do Buçaco, designed to house this monastic order, which existed between 1628 and 1834, the date of the extinction of religious orders in Portugal. Presently, in its place there is the Hotel Palace Buçaco.

The Buçaco National Forest, considered a protected area, has plant species from all over the world, some of them gigantic, besides the world-famous Cupressus lusitanica. It was in this mountain that the Buçaco battle was fought in 1810 between the Anglo-Portuguese forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington on the one hand and the French commanded by André Massena on the other, a fact that is remembered in Buçaco Military Museum.

Visit Buçaco Palace

The Royal Palace is located in the National Forest of Buçaco, parish of Luso, municipality of Mealhada, district of Aveiro in Portugal.The building was designed in the last quarter of the 19th century by the Italian architect Luigi Manini, set designer of the National Theater of São Carlos. There were also interventions, in different phases, by the architects Nicola Bigaglia, Manuel Joaquim Norte Júnior and José Alexandre Soares. It has been classified as a Property of Public Interest since 1996.

The current building, in neomanuelino style, is decorated with panelsof tiles, frescos and paintings alluding to the Epic of the Portuguese Discoveries, all of them signed by some of the great masters of the arts. The structure displays profiles of the Tower of Bethlehem carved in stone of Ançã, motifs of the cloister of the Jeronimos Monastery, some arabesques and blooms of the Convent of Christ, claiming a flowery Gothic with romantic episodes in contrast to austere monastic severity.

Its interior highlights outstanding works of art by Portuguese masters of the time, from the collection of tile panels of master Jorge Colaço, evoking the Lusíadas, Gil Vicente's Autos and the Peninsular War, graceful sculptures by António Gonçalves and Costa Mota, paintings by João Vaz illustrating verses from the maritime epic of Luís Vaz de Camões, frescoes by António Ramalho and paintings by Carlos Reis. The furniture includes Portuguese, Indo-Portuguese and Chinese pieces, highlighted by majestic tapestries. Also noteworthy for the Moorish ceiling, the remarkable floor made with exotic woods and the royal gallery.

Visit the Viewpoint of Cruz Alta - Luso

The Viewpoint of Cruz Alta, located in Luso Parish, perched Buçaco Mountain, provides stunning views. May be seen from the Atlantic Ocean, to the Serra da Estrela, through the Serra do Caramulo, especially the landscape to the Bussaco National Forest.

Visit Lake of Bussaco - Luso

Lake Buçaco is a large lake, located in Luso Town and inviting the seagull rides. This lake is inserted in the Forest of Buçaco.

Visit Fonte Fria - Luso

The Cold Spring, located in the Parish Luso is the most renowned source of Buçaco Forest, and one of its most enchanting places.
The two water lines prevalent from the Buçaco Forest unite in Cold Spring, causing a water line that runs through the Valley of Ferns, a name that derives from a set of tree-sized ferns, spread out over the valley.

Visit the Hawthorn Woods - Avessada

Visit the Mata da Ribeira - Avessada

Visit Cascade of Fraga da Pena - Benfeita

The Cascade of Fraga da Pena, located in Woods Margaça, Town of Benfeita, is a mountain waterfall. This cascade is a total height of more than seventy meters (the main gap of Fraga da Pena has 20 m).
This cascade must originate in a geological accident and is considered one of the largest gains among the natural resources of the protected landscape of the Serra do Goshawk. The waters that crashed this cascade run by a very tight mountain valley, thus giving rise to a micropaisagem, which emerges suddenly endowed with abundant vegetation cover the shale.

Visit Serra's Goshawk - Arganil

The Açor Mountain, located in the municipality of Arganil, constitutes together with the Star and Lousã, all the mountain chains that, practically, Portugal is divided in half. It is part of the ridge that crosses the Iberian plateau. It is protected landscape since 1982 (373 hectares) and was a rare enclave of natural vegetation and slope shales. Partly covered by pine forests, mountain, which lies within the municipality of Arganil, hiding details of rare beauty.
Represents a set of high landscape value, mainly due to two relics of the Forest and Maragaça Fraga da Pena. Scattered in the mountains are many villages lost in time, often located in remote and difficult access.
Mata Margaraça is an example of such natural beauty and is one of the rare specimens of natural vegetation on steep schist from the center of the country. Species like chestnut, CARVALHEIRO, and some laurel cherry laurel and pastries, make up the flora of this protected landscape area. Among the fauna may highlight-Striped salamander and lizard-of-water. The steep valleys that hide water lines that run down towards the Ceira and Alva, are prone to falls. Accordingly, we highlight the great waterfall of Fraga da Penha.

Visit the Forest of Albergaria - Land Bouro

The forest of Hostels is located between the Caldas do Geres and Portela of Man. As one of the most important woods of the Natural Park of Gerês is considered a botanical reserve by hosting a major oak in its natural state, which includes typical species of fauna and flora geresianas, so that, although it can be navigated on foot, subject special measures of protection.
The road that runs through the forest and follows the Roman road stretches along the left bank of Bayou Vilarinho das Furnas, and ends at the Campo do Geres. Besides its ecological value, has important historical value, because they are visible on this site remains of a Roman Geira with its milestones.