Visit the Natural Park of Arrábida

The Natural Park of Arrábida is located in a biogenetic reserve Arrábida and covers part of the area of the Municipality of Setúbal.
The Arrábida Natural Park has an area of ​​approximately 10,800 acres, protecting the Mediterranean-type maquis vegetation born this microclimate.
Regarding the flora especially the oak, Quercus faginea, the olive tree (Olea europaea) and carob (Ceratonia siliqua).
Regarding the fauna, are recorded in the Natural Park of Arrábida a considerable number of species, a total of 213 vertebrate: 8 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 154 birds and 35 mammals. Among the mammals we are the fox (Vulpes vulpes), weasel (Mustela nivalis), the toirão (Mustela putorius), the genet (Genetta Genetta), rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), badger (Meles meles) and the probable occurrence of wildcat (Felis silvestris), and marten (Martes Foina). The caves, the cliffs are mainly associated with a very particular fauna of bats, the bat-Teddy (Miniopterus schreibersii), the horseshoe bat-Mediterranean (Rhinolophus Euryale), bat-to-large horseshoe (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and bat -de-Moorish horseshoe (Rhinolophus meherlyi).
Among birds stand out Bonelli's eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) - with the only couple to nest in the Portuguese coast, the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), the eagle owl (Bubo bubo), the screech owl (Tyto alba), the real-swift (Apus melba), the blackbird, blue (Monticola solitarius) and black rabirruivo (Phoenicurus ochrurus), the nightingale (Luscinia mergarhynchos), the robin and the wren (Troglodytes troglodytes ), beak-grossudo (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), the hoopoe (Upupa epops), the common partridge, the lark-a-saving (Galerida cristata), noitibó-of-the-neck red (Caprimulgus ruficollis) and kingfishers (Alcedo atthis), the woodpecker, great spotted (Dendrocopus major), the tits (Parus spp.), the vine-common (certh brachydactila), and the cuckoo-songbird (Cuculus canorus).
In amphibians and reptiles, the lizard, the slow-legs-pentadactylism (Chalcides bedriagai), the slow-ladder (Elaphe scalaris), the snake-Ratter (Malpolon monspessulanus), the horned viper-and slow-horseshoe (Coluber hippocrepis). Water resources provide shelter to the turtle (Mauremys leprous) and water-snakes (Natrix spp.).
Among the thousands of invertebrate species include a few species of animals in Portuguese classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature - the spider cave Frade.