Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António (**) - It was the first nature reserve classified in Portugal

"From this lookout point which is the beautiful castle of Castro Marim (**), may wonder at the curious landscape of the lattice, mixed estuaries, marshes, brackish bodies of water, salt marshes, pastures, ponds, pillars and extensions without vegetation. A geometry of lands and waters that mirror the salt gives unforeseen consequences. Currently salinicultura, fisheries, agriculture and fisheries divide among themselves the essence of natural resources. Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and (Read Full Article)

Castelo de Castro Marim (**)-In the wake of the mysteries of the Templars

"Archaeological research indicates that early human occupation of the hill of Castro Marim Castle date from the late Bronze Age. Since then there has been no interruption of the occupation of the mouth of the Guadiana River, always on the maritime trade, successively by browsers Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians 1 (late fourth century BC) to be destroyed by a strong earthquake before the arrival of the Romans. The oldest defensive wall identified in the enclosure (Read Full Article)

Set buildings Pombaline of Vila Real de Santo António (*) - Work of the Portuguese Enlightenment

"Founded between 1774 and 1776 from the will of the Marquis of Pombal to the center of the Royal Fishery of the Algarve, Vila Real de Santo António is a jewel of architecture representative of the eighteenth century Pombal Portuguese (1). Created from scratch, Vila Real de Santo António emerges as a metropolis born from above, by the will power and artifice. Before the release of the first stone was all a wilderness. The thirteen thousand five hundred cubic yards of landfill for the disposal of water (Read Full Article)

Beaches of Vila Real de Santo António, Monte Gordo, Green Height, Lota and Manta Rota (Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António) (**)

Sea, Half of my soul is made of sea air. Sophia de Mello Breyner, Atlantic, p. 9 The Algarve, not by denying the alarvidades committed in the name of tourism that made possible the enrichment (i) permitted many "wild ducks", contrary to what many pseudo-intellectuals proclaim (it sees them in their houses escondindinhas in falésiasinhas recondite ) still has pieces of Eden. This is a giant beach of golden sand and warm waters and calm, with about 12 km (Read Full Article)

5 Notable Places of Municipalities of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António

Panorama and joint-equity Cacela Old (***)-Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António (**)-Castro Marim Castle and its landscape (**)-Center of Vila Real de Pombal St. Anthony (*)-Extensive beach between the mouth of the Guadiana river, passing by Monte Gordo, Altura, Lota, Manta Rota to Insua Cacela Velha (**) Other sites with some tourist interest:-International Bridge over the Guadiana river Megalithic Tomb, Santa Rita (Read Full Article)

Set heritage and landscape of Old Cacela (Vila Real de Santo António) (***)

Believe me dear reader Cacela old that still exists in the Algarve a well preserved, in which man and nature come together in perfect harmony. Here, even the agnostic suspect the existence of a generous God. Here Cacela Old! Old Cacela gresosa is deployed on a cliff of Miocene age, with 26 m elevation, cut to the west by the river with Cacela old fossiliferous outcrops; have in front of the "laugh", separated from the sea by a peninsula of sand, that ( Read the full article)