Visit the Port of Setúbal - Santa Maria da Graça (Setúbal)

The Port of Setúbal is located in the Parish of Our Lady of Grace (Setúbal) at the mouth of the River Sado.

Visit Fort Santiago, Outão - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Outão Fort Santiago, located in the north of the River Sado bar, in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal).
Joined in the past, the defensive line the stretch of coast known today in terms of tourism, such as Riviera, and in the seventeenth century, extending from the Albarquel Sesimbra, complementing the protection of important maritime town of Setubal.
This combines strong elements of late medieval military architecture (abaluartada), Gothic and Mannerist, following the evolution of artillery.
Irregular polygonal features (organic) which is inscribed the medieval tower of three floors, with bay windows and balconies to kill dogs in wedges.
Around the tower is the old service dependencies of the fort, with two and three floors, including the chapel under the invocation of Santiago in the west. Covering the side of the sea, stand with three bastions platforms for artillery, by the side of the earth, there is a tenalha with two bastions and high wall slope. In the salient angles of the bastions rise covered circular sentry boxes.

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 Rio Sado - Setúbal

Rio Sado born 230m altitude, in the Serra da Vigia and travels 180 miles before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean near Setúbal.
In the Sado Estuary dwells a population of dolphins (bottlenose-dolphin), which has resisted the invasion of its habitat by man (for the shipping yards Mitrena to the port of Setúbal and due to the fishing dock and playground, and of the ferry link between banks).