The Capuchin Convent is situated on a rise north bank of the estuary of the River Sado, Setúbal Peninsula with the highest point at 501 meters altitude in the municipality of Setúbal, and peculiar characteristics of climate and flora. The climate is temperate Mediterranean, with a flora rich in Mediterranean species such as holm oak, cork oak. The toponym Arrábida is unknown. Some say it comes from the Castilian Rabida, through the Arabic al-ribat, and argued that "arrábita" is a word of Arabic origin which means roughly "place of prayer", connecting semantically to the verb "watch" in Arabic. Another hypothesis for the origin of this place name as well as others in the region such as Evora, Sado and Sesimbra is people having origins in prehistoric and proto south of Portugal such as conies and related to the megalithic culture.Here lived the poets Frei Agostinho da Cruz and Sebastiao da Gama, who made the mountain a recurring motif in his works.
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