Circular route starting and ending in the Municipal Park. Mixed floor type, 6 km predominantly on a bike path and about 3 km on a dirt track, from the Health Center to the Marinhas do Sal village. Arriving at the Salt Flats of Rio Maior, you can appreciate the exclusivity of this place where salt has been produced for over 900 years. The salt from Rio Maior comes from a well from which water seven times saltier than the sea is drawn; water that becomes salty when it crosses a million-year-old rock salt deposit. In Marinhas do Sal, inserted in the Natural Park of Serras de Aire and Candeeiros, you can contemplate agricultural areas, in a diverse landscape in terms of land occupation, alternating the orchard and vineyard with scrubland, pine and eucalyptus.
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 ...
