Visit the River Beach Piódão

The Piódão River Beach is located in the Village Piódão, hidden in the Serra of Goshen, for their wonderful and unique urban composition.

In river Piódão built a dam that created a river area that is fit for the practice of bathing activity.

Its shores and surrounding area, are very wooded, allowing recreational areas.

Visit the village of Shale Piódão

The village of Shale Piódão, situated on a hillside of Serra Goshawk which gives an image of a true post.

The dwellings are traditional slate walls, the ceiling is covered with slabs and wooden doors and windows painted blue. The aspect that gives the artificial light at night, combined arrangement of the houses meant that it received the name "Bethlehem Village".

The architectural form of a settlement of historic villages and protected in the 1980 receives the cock silver medal awarded to "the most typical village in Portugal."

The village of Piódão was classified as a Public Interest.

Visit the Forest Margaraça - Benfeita

The Forest Margaraça, located in the Town of Benfeita, integrates Biogenetic Reserves Network the Council of Europe, viewed as a site of community interest, due to its unrivaled natural value. The vegetation that characterizes it is oak, arbutus, the ilex, the hazel, cherry, honeysuckle, martagon, the elm and Heather (whose pollen gives a taste of honey so characteristic Açor Mountain), along with a high coverage of mosses, lichens and fungi. The Forest Margaraça has the character of the relic primeval forest vegetation on the slopes schist.