In Winter, it  is dressed in a white blanket of snow and invites to winter sports and the practice of extreme activities or outings with family.

Check the Spring, flowers and other vegetation form a rainbow of life, revealing unsuspected beauties and recondite caches. The crystal clear water that runs through the mountain and the sounds of nature can give you a few days of peace and contemplation.

Summer offers the freshness of its ponds and provides long walks or bike rides, afternoons fishing or discovering historical villages and interesting local museums.

And Autumn a guise warm multicolor tones ranging from yellow to red, brown to blend with nature involves filling our soul and inviting to other adventures.

The delicious local cuisine last all year long. With its flavors extracted from nature like fruits and herbs and odd manufacture techniques, Serra da Estrela´s cuisine occupies a prominent place on the national scene. Delicacies such as Serra Cheese exceeds long ago the borders of Portugal.

And history has also left its mark in Serra da Estrela where the people and customs help to go back in time to retrieve memories and convey traditions.
Come to Serra da Estrela, with the charm of the first time or as an old friend reviving nostalgic memories.

Is one of the best preserved and least crowded beaches in the Algarve. It’s a completely uninhabited area of the Ria Formosa.

Rare sanctuary, the Desert Island invites to tranquility and rest.
About 10 km of silence and quiet characterize this place, where everything seems to fit perfectly between the land, sea and air.

Access is by sea from the pier Porta do Sol or Sun Gate, in Faro. It’s always worth going through the labyrinths of sand and mud flats of the estuary.

But you can find  some activities for the rare rainy days. Sports such as diving, fishing, golf and horse riding. The famous Columbus House Museum, where he lived, has the Cardina Museum or you can visit the Quinta das Palmeiras, with exotic plants and birds.

It is in Vila Baleira which is most of the population, commerce and entertainment. It is a quiet island, except in the summer, which fills with tourists looking the famous beaches and  nightlife, with increasing  beach bars and at the docks, with parties every weekend.

With a stable and dry weather, usually warm enough to swim all year round, but the ideal is to visit April to September.

The offer runs from the hotel to the Residential Resort 5 * in
quiet island with beautiful beaches and clear sea.

One of our stunning spots and must visit place.

The canyon is being studied as part of the EU HERMES project using a remotely operated vehicle. The project is investigating the specialised canyon ecosystems, sediment transportand deposition, and the way in which the canyon influences and is affected by local ocean circulation.

The Nazare Canyon causes very high breaking waves. This makes Nazare a hotspot for big wave surfing. In November 2011, Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara surfed a record breaking giant wave: 78 feet (24 m) from trough to crest, at Nazaré.^[2] In January 2013 it was reported that he successfully rode a wave measuring 100 feet (30 m) in the same location, exceeding the size of his previous record-breaking wave.

"On Portugal Beach, Riding a Wave That Hits Like a Quake"

The Guardian

"Garrett McNamara surfs 'world record 100ft wave' in Portugal"

S. Leonardo da Galafura is one of the most beautiful sights of all the Douro region, the viewpoint of S. Leonardo, where Miguel Torga “plunged” into the river and the landscape embrenhava this magnanimous “Doiro sublimated”, who in one of his “Daily” called “excessive nature”. About a stone’s recorded an excerpt of the work of what is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the twentieth century, in which the Douro is a constant presence. This place have to legends and stories that increase the charm of these stops, one of the most beautiful places in the county reguense, must stop for anyone visiting the Douro.

Mount St. Leonardo is located east of the town of Galafura and 566 meters of altitude. Here there was a Roman fort, which was Governor Galafre, etymology of the current name of the parish Galafura.

The village was founded by the Moors in the West side of Mount St. Leonardo, the place still known as Fountain of the Moors, at a distance of 5 Km’s from the current location. In this place, also known as Moorish cemetery, there are graves dug in the rock new, having appeared utensils identified as Roman, the latter of which there are about three years – a gold coin with the effigy and name of Agrippina. In memory of some residents, lies the finding of crocks with ashes, which indicates that already in Roman times, the dead were cremated. The village was forced to move to the site where, due to an invasion of ants.

At Mount St. Leonardo, formed of flint and quartz, are several Roman wells, some very deep, as a result of research and extraction of minerals. A statistical document, publication date 1842, according to the reform of May 21, 1841, said to have existed in Galafura a strike length of quicksilver. As Covelinhas, Galafura also integrated the county of cinnamon.