Évora District is located in Alentejo, in southern Portugal. The district capital is the city of Évora.

Évora

The district of Guarda is located in the Centro Region of Portugal, except Vila Nova de Foz Côa, which is in the Norte Region. The district capital and most populous city is Guarda.

Guarda

Portalegre District is located in the east of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Portalegre.

Portalegre

Faro District is the southernmost district of Portugal, coincident with the Algarve. The administrative centre, or capital, is the city of Faro.

Faro

The district of Braga is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain (Galicia) in the northeast and Porto in the south. Its area is 2,673 km² and it has a population of 831,368.

Braga

Coimbra District is located in the Centro Region, the district capital is the city of Coimbra.

Coimbra

The District of Setúbal is located in the south-west of Portugal, the District Capital is the city of Setúbal.

Setúbal

The Viana do Castelo District is a district located in the northwest of Portugal, bordered by Spain (Galicia) from the north and Braga District from the south. It has an area of 2,255 km2.

Viana do Castelo

The District of Viseu is located in the Central Inland of Portugal, the District Capital is the city of Viseu. It is the only district of Portugal which does not border Spain or the sea.

Viseu

The District of Leiria is located in Central Portugal. The district capital is the city of Leiria.

Leiria

The District of Vila Real is a district of northern Portugal. With an area of 4,239 km², the district is located east of the port city of Porto and north of the Douro River. Vila Real has always belonged to the historical province of Trás-os-Montes. It is bordered by Spain (Galicia) in the north and east, Braga District and Porto District in the west, Viseu District in the south and Bragança District in the east.

Vila Real

The Beja District is located in southern Portugal. The district capital is the city of Beja.

Beja

The District of Porto is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east. Its area is 2395 km².

Porto

Lisbon District is a district located in the South Central Portugal, the district capital is the city of Lisbon, also the national capital.

Lisbon

Aveiro District is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. It is bordered by the Porto District to the north, the Viseu District to the east, the Coimbra District to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Aveiro

Bragança District is a traditional political division of Portugal, in the northeast corner bordering on Spain (Castile and Leon and Galicia), covering 7.4% of the nation's continental landmass. The capital of the district, Bragança, is 217 kilometres from Porto, 107 kilometres from the Spanish town of Zamora and 169 kilometres from Salamanca, also in Spain. Bragança is administratively divided in twelve municipalities and 299 parishes located in the north-eastern part of Trás-os-Montes. It is bordered by Spain (Castile and Leon and Galicia) in the north and northeast, Vila Real District in the east, Viseu District in the southwest and Guarda District in the south.

Bragança

The District of Santarém is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's Centro Region. The district capital is the city of Santarém. The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of 6,747 km2.

Santarém

Castelo Branco District is located in Central Portugal. Its capital is Castelo Branco, and has an area of 6675 km².

Castelo Branco

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Peneda-Gerês National Park, also known simply as Gerês, is a large protected area spanning territory in the districts of Viana do Castelo, Braga, and Vila Real. It is one of the most notorious natural attractions of Portugal, for its rare impressive views, ecological value, and biological diversity.

Visitors often visit the parl to bathe in natural waterfalls and warm water pools, and see the ancient Roman roads and bridges still in place.

Gerês National Park

Natural wealth is the source of inspiration.

The Caima River and the landscape are the calling card.

Eco Hotel Vale do Rio

The Minho Ecotrail is a living landscape of contrasts that shows us a different reality and leads us by the memory of the times the human relationship with the river Minho, providing full usufruição a 'green lane' running through Vila Nova cerveira and connects this region to the municipalities of Valencia and steps (briefly).

The natural conditions underlying this route allow the presence of several species of birds such as the mallard, herons, cormorants and kingfishers, to mammals such as the otter and mink, amphibians like the frog-green the newts and salamanders and fish as the bogue, the climb and trout.

It is because of its importance and natural diversity that Rio is integrated path in the Natura 2000 network and the protection zone for the Water of the Minho river estuary birds.

The Minho Ecotrail in Vila Nova de Cerveira amounts to about 13,5kms full contact with the Minho river and surrounding nature.

Ecopista do Minho

Berlengas Natural Reserve is a Portuguese natural reserve in the Berlengas, a small archipelago off the coast of Peniche, Portugal. Over 98% of its 95.6 km2 (36.9 sq mi) are marine.

The symbol of the protected area is the common murre, which has, or had, its southernmost nidifying population in the islands.

Berlengas Natural Reserve

The Pia do Urso Sensory Ecopark is located in the municipality of Batalha - Leiria. The ecopark is a rural area requalified for tourism, with its old houses rebuilt and with the implementation of an ecological theme park, with a "sensory" pedestrian path, that is, adapted to the visually impaired. 

The route consists of several interactive and playful stations. Along the way it is possible to appreciate the flora and fauna, and various geological formations.

The site has a reception and interpretation centre, shops, cafes and restaurants, car park, picnic area, children's playground, and a mountain bike centre.

Pia do Urso Sensorial Eco Park

Arrábida Natural Park (Portuguese: Parque Natural da Arrábida) is a protected area in Portugal.

Founded in 1976, the park occupies an area of 176.41 km2 (68.11 sq mi), (123.30 km2 (47.61 sq mi) on land and 53.11 km2 (20.51 sq mi) at sea) covering the southernmost margin of the Setúbal Peninsula.

One of the park's unique features is its carbonate geology mountain range, Serra da Arrábida (501 metres (1,644 ft)) which comes into contact with the ocean similarly to some locations in the Mediterranean, contrasting with the usual Portuguese coast (long sand beaches and cliffs)

Three of the park's beaches — Galapinhos, Portinho da Arrábida and Figueirinha — are popular among the inhabitants of Lisbon and Setúbal. Overlooking the three beaches is the Convent of Our Lady of Arrábida, a former monastery established in the 16th century, managed today by the Fundação Oriente.

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