Mafra - Peniche

Passage of automà ³ vel - approach Extensão 110 km

The stroll começa in Mafra, famous village for its convent. Errand to construct for D. João V in 1711, as payment ofConvent of Mafra the promise that had made in case that it had children, sà ³ was concluÃdo in 1730. Of the peripécias, Reals and romanceadas, of construção say to us € to it œ the Memorial of the Convento⠀ , of José Saramago. With 220 meters of length, it was, in the height, one of the edifÃcios greaters of the Europe. The visit must include the library, notices ¡ vel for its drawing and lodging 30 a thousand books. The basÃlica, the claustros and vestÃbulo of the church, with its Italian sculptures, são equally points to visit.
To the sundays the afternoon costumava to have concerts of carrilhão: the sineiro set, recently restored (one of the two existing ones), arrives to become to hear the 15 quilà ³ meters of distância.
Famous the é village for the work of its potters. ‰ the case of José Medeiros, in whose workshop, in the road of Almada, 45 people work. The Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum de Nova pious Iorque têm ordered here to make cà ³ of its peças.
Famous the é village for the work of its potters. ‰ the case of José Medeiros, in whose workshop, in the road of Almada, 45 people work. The Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum de Nova pious Iorque têm ordered here to make cà ³ of its peças.Source in Mafra

To follow até the Ericeira hà ¡ two opções. The first one allows to visit diverse potteries, one of them of Frank José. Throughout the years it built a village in miniature with arts and ofÃcios of long ago. Seated the wheel, it goes shaping satÃricas saints and figures while the visit talks with who. The great defect of this passage são the bottlings, over all to the end-of-week. Daà that if considers another one, following throughout the valley of the Lizandro até the Chapel Mrs. of a “. A time in the road, visits the situated lagoon in the Estuary of the Lizandro. ‰ aà that Tapir ³ nio Sampaio molds figures in cerâmica: traditional salesmen lisboetas, episà ³ dios of the life of nio Antà Saint ³, the fan ¡ papal brief € œ the Old one, the Youngster and the Burro⠀ , etc.
In the Ericeira still it finds remaining portions of environments of beaches of hà ¡ 40 years: pedonais streets that function as público stroll, tertúlias in cafés, sets of ten of fishing houses to rent the veraneantes. The village has a small treasure hidden in Archive-Museum of the Casa Saint of the rdia Misericà ³: one reposità ³ art river sacra where avulta colecção rare of nine flags of procissão, painted to the two sides to the style € œ tenebrista⠀ , used, in the week saint, procissão of a € œ fogaréus⠀  of the Ericeira. It appreciates também the former-votes, that retrace to séc. XVIII. Prà ³ ximo of the port of fishes, the Chapel of nio Antà Saint ³, lined tiles, border to the place of where, in 5 of October of 1910, the real famÃlia left for the BrazilianChapel of nio Antà Saint ³ exÃlio.
In a € œ saÃda Norte⠀ , in direcção EN 247, we pass next to Chapel of S. Sebastião, séc. XVII, and to the Fort of A thousand Regos.

Passed the beach of the Ribeira of Islands, known zone of surfistas, we find Ribamar, celebrity for the marisqueiras.

In beach terms, transposed S. Lourenço € “ where valley the penalty to stop in the small bar with esplanade in the falésia, hà ¡ diverse proposals: Been silent, Cambelas and from above Gentias, in the way for Baroque. To visit the two últimas é necessà ¡ river to leave EN 247 in direcção of Seats. We come back to cross 247 more EN the front, to visit S. Peter of the Chair.Ribeira of Islands The Church of Ours deserves referência Mrs. de a Cruz.

To follow to the crossing of EN 247 with EN 9 we cut to the left, following direcção € œ Cruzâ Saint €  and € œ Towers Vedras Alternativa⠀ . € left is the Blue Beach. In Santa Cruz, at new the beauty incased between falésias and the fight, pparently inglà ³ laughs, enters the casario of 50 years and betão of years 90.
é osier the following stage, with beaches of Saint Rita and New Porto and the thermal estância known one. Following for the interior, in the high one of a hill it is the commemorative obelisco of the battle between the exército anglian-português and the Frenchmen, in 1808, that it designated the end of the I French Invasão.
Following for north throughout the coast, beaches and the fisheries of shellfish Money and Port come back to be referência main in the ticket for Port Barks.Church of the Lourinhã

In the Lourinhã, the first church, tico temple gà ³ of séc. XIV, it presents a vestibule of four archivolts you seat in capitéis. He was construÃda in espaço of the old medieval castle. To follow White Sand (name rank in cause for the lack of patriotism of the veraneantes and insufficient sanitation of its ribeira).

For who it likes calmness, optimum é to follow for a road secundà ¡ laughs rente the coast and, três quilà ³ meters later, to go down for the beach of Paimogo (that etimologicamente significarà ¡ € œ paÃs of magos⠀ ), tranquila and very pretty, where the sun burns the sério. In the top north, é possÃvel to appreciate an impressive panorâmica that, in clear days, encloses Peniche and the Berlengas.

Coming back EN 247 (what it can make in front going soon, for perpendicular land way to the sea) and following toward Peniche, chance to visit beaches of S. Bernardino and the Consolação. Before the respective crossing, a mill recouped of ruÃna and in full functioning evokes ofÃcios of other times. Of return the EN, to follow indicação € œ Atouguia of the Baleia⠀ , where the General Cuts had been celebrated de1373. The first, dedicated church the S. Leonardo, é an example of the tica architecture Roman-gà ³. Next to the church ³ tica and vestÃgios of a touril exists a source gÃ. All the village this ¡ on the old legends and tradições, nominated of templà ¡ rivers. In the Baleal pé sends regards to a visit small penÃnsula. construção of the road através of the beach took off the calmness the village, old transformed, according to whims of the sea, however in island however in penÃnsula. ‰ a zone of caça submarine, but truily radical são the abilities of the surfistas in the celebrities € œ tubos⠀ . In the beach poderà ¡ to find artesão Marcelino Cabeças with its hampers in lintel.
The entrance in Peniche becomes através of a door in the old wall that protected the village of the attacks of the French and English piracy.Fort of Peniche

If in £o it will have haste, cut the right and faça perÃmetro of the handle of penÃnsula, passing in the rochedos of the Papoa, scene ¡ gicos gios river of some naufrà ¡ trà ¡, most famous of which œ San was of galeão Spanish € Peter de Alcà ¡ ntara⠀ . They follow the Coal Handle (atenção to the restaurant Vessel of the Crows, with fabulosa seen on the Berlengas and razoà ¡ vel kitchen) and diverse € œ carreiros⠀  (running for where the sea enters in the way of the falésia, in one of which pré-histà exists a rich grotto ³ duly designated). To almost arrive at the Fort of Peniche, another one hipà ³ mica thesis gastronà ³: the Marisqueira of the Cortiçais.

The fort, seiscentista, built to protect the coast in a propÃcio place the landings, were transformed into prisão polÃtica for the New and returned State, apà ³ s the 25 of April, espaço museolà ³ gico. The visit valley the penalty, using to advantage the circunstância of being a good miradouro on the coast. € entered, a scale model shows the importância of the ortaleza in the defense of região when Peniche still was an island. The passage começa for the Coast of Guarda, where if reforçthe knowledge of histà ³ laughs at Peniche através of some objectos. In the room of the Ciências, gicos elements geolà ³ allow compreensão of the antiquity of this land. The fort lodges what € could be a œ Museum of the Resistência to the Fascismo⠀ , but registers only some aspects of the life of the polÃticos prisoners in the chain that functioned there. documentação poor é, despite he is impressive to visit parlatà ³ rivers, where the prisoners received visits, and the cells, in one of which if drawings of  expõem lvaro Cunhal. Referências the escape of Lourenço Days,  lvaro Cunhal and other communist controllers. The letters, the poems and the library.
But this espaço museolà ³ gico tends € “ até for formação professional, in MarÃtima Archaeology, at its directora € “ to make histà ³ laughs at Peniche from the sea, as important point of ticket routes since the times most remote.
‰ as soon as if must understand the vain retraction of ¡ submarine found rivers e, over all, exposição € œ the Ship of a š ltimo Inca⠀ , that it justifies, for itself, a visit, presented in the edifÃcio of the Chapel. ‰ the result of 18 years of work of submarine archaeology to try to reconstruct célebre naufrà ¡ gio of galeão Spanish € œ San Peter de Alcântara⠀ . Sunk in 1786 and vitimando 130 people, between which many of the prisoners you crowd that it carried, came loaded of immense wealth, that Spain ³ is later if had puted in charge to recoup. With about 30 of about 4000 peças rescued inRendilheira de Bilros the recent works research that if they had processed in the sea and land, exposição this ¡ mounted with a stica cenografia fantà ¡, envolta in a sonorous mantle of shouts of dolphins.

In an environment almost Wagneriano, it is tried to reconstruct naufrà ¡ gio, in £o sà ³ with real certifications, but também através of imaginação virtual of programs of vÃdeo.Em what it respects to the artesanato, is distinguished the incomes of Bilros, relatively the s which can get informações in the Associação of the Artesãs de Peniche, in the Home of Saint Maria and the Rendibilros (Associação of the Rendilheiras de Peniche). Boats in miniature or inside of bottles and pictures with in ³ s of sailor são arts, respectively, of Tapir ³ nio Captive (Naval club), Augustus Berlenga, Tapir ³ nio Marreiros and João Salsinha Duarte.

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