The Alviela Ciência Viva Center is an interactive facility built on promoting science and technology, revolving around three interactive exhibits that basically discuss the local Limestone Geological Plates, their origins and the region's 175 million year old geological evolution. Some of the other topics that this institution presents are the local weather influences on landscape and geological formations, the amazing secrets behind the one of a kind Alviela River Spring, the unique characteristics of the region’s cave bats as well as other astounding curiosities regarding local animal wildlife. Closely located by the important Alviela River Spring, in the heart of the Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park, CARSOSCÓPIO studies and promotes local fauna, flora and geomorphological phenomena of great beauty with the use of national state of the art technology. With an impressive annual visitation rate of 17000 visitors, the Alviela Ciência Viva Center was acknowledged with the Geoconservation Award in recognition of its important role in the promotion and preservation of the region’s natural heritage, not only because of the topics that are dealt with in the exhibits and during the guided visits but also as a result of the complementary activities that the Center has to offer (experiments, games, interpretative walking trails, field trips) as well as a number of scientific events.
The CARSOSCÓPIO - Alviela Ciência Viva Centre is an interactive facility built on promoting science and technology revolving around three interactive exhibits that basically discuss the local Limestone Geological Plates, their origins and t ...
The complex also presents a walking trail of approximately 2km that takes visitors past many different and typical karsic geological phenomena of rare beauty. One of these attractions is the Amiais stream. This unique stream flows at the su ...
The Minde "Pincha" is a curious upwelling phenomena that is thought to have appeared due to the layering of sediment deposits on the edges of a lake that is believed to have existed in this area in the Glaciation Period – Quaternary. This G ...
The Alviela River Spring is located on the base of a cliff between the national limestone plate region and the lower Tagus tertiary basin. Here, a range of 150 million year old rocks are found together (Jurassic limestone and Tertiary sands ...
The Santo António Plateau is located in the heart of the Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park, east of the Candeeiros Mountain and south of the Aire Mountain and the São Mamede Plateau. The Santo Antonio Plateau harbors an uncommon kars ...