The Costa Vicentina Natural Park
The Costa Vicentina Natural Park, where the villa is located, is a protected area (light yellow in the map). It offers to the attentive visitors unforgettable impressions. The craggy outline of lofty cliffs that plunge into the foaming seas. Long beaches with stretch to the inner land in wide landscapes of dunes or tiny sandy coves like shells tucked away between looming rocks. The majestic shapes of Cabo São Vincente and Ponta de Sagres jutting indomitably into the ocean. Amongst plenty of other things this offers the charm to a landscape vibrant with natural beauty and so little touched by passing centuries that it seems barely to have registered human's presence at all.
The Natural Park extends from Odeceixe to Burgau, a broad sweep that takes in approximately 80 km of coastline. It offers an opportunity to appreciate, hundreds of plants in there natural habitat. In an atmosphere full of sun and silence a true a paradise for botanist and fancier of plants!
The fauna is also very rich. In addition to foxes, wild boars, badgers, wild cats and rabbits, birds are the big attraction of the Costa Vicentina. In the creeks and wetland areas inhabit lot's species such as herons, storks, kingfishers and water hens. The crags of the coast are home to raven, rock doves, pigeons, gulls, magpies and many other seabirds. Birds of prey, such as eagles, falcons, sparrow hawks and owls share the sky with more than thirty other bird species, such as blackbirds, nightingales whose singing is to be heard throughout the region.
The Local Gastronomy: Famous by its fish, shellfish and meat. Fish and shellfish directly from the Atlantic coast of Algarve and Alentejo, and the meat from the plains of the Alentejo or the Algarve inland mountains. Everything go together with the famous world winner Alentejo wine whose grapes ripe in the generous sunlight of the area.
The Natural Park extends from Odeceixe to Burgau, a broad sweep that takes in approximately 80 km of coastline. It offers an opportunity to appreciate, hundreds of plants in there natural habitat. In an atmosphere full of sun and silence a true a paradise for botanist and fancier of plants!
The fauna is also very rich. In addition to foxes, wild boars, badgers, wild cats and rabbits, birds are the big attraction of the Costa Vicentina. In the creeks and wetland areas inhabit lot's species such as herons, storks, kingfishers and water hens. The crags of the coast are home to raven, rock doves, pigeons, gulls, magpies and many other seabirds. Birds of prey, such as eagles, falcons, sparrow hawks and owls share the sky with more than thirty other bird species, such as blackbirds, nightingales whose singing is to be heard throughout the region.
The Local Gastronomy: Famous by its fish, shellfish and meat. Fish and shellfish directly from the Atlantic coast of Algarve and Alentejo, and the meat from the plains of the Alentejo or the Algarve inland mountains. Everything go together with the famous world winner Alentejo wine whose grapes ripe in the generous sunlight of the area.
Rota Vicentina
The villa is right in the Rota Vicentina path which is a long distance path along the South West coast of Portugal. Comprising the Historical Way and the Fishermen’s Trail, totals 350 km to walk, between the city of Santiago do Cacém and the Cape of St. Vincent, the most southwestern point of Europe.
Please see promotional video here:
The villa is right in the Rota Vicentina path which is a long distance path along the South West coast of Portugal. Comprising the Historical Way and the Fishermen’s Trail, totals 350 km to walk, between the city of Santiago do Cacém and the Cape of St. Vincent, the most southwestern point of Europe.
Please see promotional video here: