Zambujeira do Mar is a small sea side town on the coast of the Alentejo, in western Portugal. It has some fine sandy beaches and picture perfect traditional architecture, making it a small but well loved destination for visitors. Zambujeira’s coast is part of the Nature Park of the Southwest Alentejo. Zambujeira do Mar is a parish of Odemira, […]
The Seixe of Ribeira is in its final leg, the boundary between the municipalities of Beja and Lagos, between the Southwest Alentejo and the northwest of the Algarve in southern Portugal. According Adalberto Alves, on your Arabisms dictionary of the Portuguese language, the origin of Seixe place-name is the Arabic word sayh, ‘torrent’. The main […]
To the north, the division is made by the limits of Odeceixe parish; the source, the division is made by the limits of Odeceixe parish; south, between the Atlantic Ocean and the national road No 120, is bounded by the cadastral sections AL and AJ; on the national road No 120, near the Mount of […]
The legend of Mareares A local tradition falls in the realm of legend episode of Castle conquest by the Christians: Aware of the privileged position of the castle and the close watch kept by the Moors, Paio Peres Correia, some Portuguese dispatched scouts to test the waters and the habits of the population of the […]
