The Coin Caves (Grutas da Moeda) are located in São Mamede, municipality of Batalha. Its discovery happened in 1971, as two huntsmen that were chasing a fox, saw it enter by one natural hole under the bushes. Moved by curiosity, they decided to enter in the galleries filled of beautiful limestone formations. Then they realised about Its natural beauty. The Caves´ visitable extension is 350 meters length and 45 meters depth below the entrance point. Temperature is constant around 18ºc all year long.
This infrastructure was created in 2006 with the objective of providing the Maceira-Liz Factory Museum with a space dedicated to research, to the study of the collections, and to the reception of visitors. It is installed in an office which ...
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 marl and limestone in the Maceira-Liz Factory quarries date back to the Jurassic Period. The paleontological heritage of the quarries largely consists of marine cephalopod fossils which emerge from the area of the stones which were cove ...
Lapas Caves are a network of artificial galleries developed beneath the houses of the village with the same name. This urban area has been raised in a small elevation corresponding to a fluvial terrace of Almonda river, from the Quaternary, ...
The Limestone Quarry Observatory comprises a privileged location for the observation of the entire limestone outcropping which dates back to the Jurassic period. The visitor will get to know the geological and paleontological framework of t ...
In 1935, the Maceira-Liz Factory began a new phase of development and technological innovation with the installation of the third production line, which began operations in 1938. This new production line was conceived to operate independent ...
Locomotive No. 1 was acquired in the beginning of 1926 and was in use until 1987. Its first trip to the Martingança station was conducted in July 1926, along the wide gauge railway which connected E.C.L to the national Western Line. All mov ...
The Nucleo Central of the Maceira-Liz Factory Museum was inaugurated on April 22, 1991 and was restructured between 2003 and 2011. It brings together a retrospective of the history of the Empreza de Cimentos de Leiria, through which the vis ...
The paleontological site of the dinosaurs in Pedreira do Galinha, discovered in 1994, is located in Serra d''Aire. This deposit is one of the most important in the world record, presenting hundreds of sauropod footprints.
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 ...
The electrical power for the start-up of the construction of the E.C.L was provided by a group of three generators powered by diesel engines, the Diesel Power-Station. After the start-up of furnaces one and two, a Turbo-Generator Plant fed ...
Distance: 4.5 km; Duration: 3h; Difficulty: Difficult. Location: Aldeia de Chãos Starting point: Cooperative Parking Terra Chã gps-wgs84 coordinates: 39.417998, -8.920365 The natural park of the Aire and Candeeiros mountains are the most i ...
With the environmental problems we face today, the growing population and global warming, water is a resource which is increasingly scare and important. This requires increasingly conscientious measures in regard to its usage. The Water Par ...
