Visit the Beach Portinho Arrábida - São Lourenço (Setúbal)

The Beach Portinho Arrábida, located in the Parish of St. Lawrence (Setúbal), is one of the most beautiful Portuguese beaches where white sand and clear waters provide a wonderful and bright contrast to the imposing austerity of Arrábida mountains.

Visit the Grotto of Santa Margarida da Lapa - São Lourenço (Setúbal)

The Gruta da Lapa de Santa Margarida is situated at the foot of the Capuchin Convent, the parish of São Lourenço (Setúbal), by the sea, where it arrives by boat or by land by a road built there. This cave is a very unusual place visited today, where a chapel built there in a degraded state in the seventeenth century. There were 3 images (N ª Sr ª da Conceição, Santo António and St Margarida).
The cave is about 22 meters long but how you connect with other shares in some smaller pieces, measures 40 meters in total.

Visit the Convent of Arrábida - São Lourenço (Setúbal)

The Arrábida Convent, located in Serra da Arrabida, in the Parish of St. Lawrence (Setúbal), was built in the sixteenth century, and covers over its 25 hectares, the Old Monastery, situated on the highest of the mountains , the New Monastery, located on the slopes, and the Garden Sanctuary of Bom Jesus.
It also displays high in the mountains, the four chapels, the set of watchtowers of veneration of the mysteries of the Passion and some cells in rocks form what is commonly called the Old Monastery.
The convent was founded in 1542 by Fray Martin de Santa Maria.
The first four Franciscans friars were: Martin de Santa Maria, Diogo de Lisboa, Pedraita Francisco and San Pedro de Alcantara.

Visit Arrábida - Setúbal

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.

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.