Foz do Arelho, a town that rises to the right border of the “Lagoa” of Óbidos, that every year changes to its mouth depending on winds and the tides. From the beach of Foz, the first sandy ground which we found in our route, leaves an asphalt road that goes until Sao Martinho do Porto. The conduction cannot be placentera, with the sea to our left, that marine breeze that enters by the window of the car and caresses the steering wheel. The cliffs follow one another, being struck with fury by the sea. Only the light of the Ponta two Covinhos, in Casais gives Cidade, dares to vary the cliff panorama violent; in the end, the beach To leave do Porto already warns us from our arrival to the bay on which Sao Martinho is based do Porto. The two promontories that they protect to this villa, conquered by the monks of Alcobaça in the middle of century XIII, cause that the waters of their beach are very calm.
With a beach between the sea and a lagoon. The tourists of sun and beach can approach fine sands of the one of Sâo Martinho do Porto, a little more to the north. Peniche is a fishing port defended with imposing walls. Its strength was one of the most sinister penitentiaries of the time of Oliveira Salazary until the triumph of the Revolution of the Claveles of 1974. Ideal place for mariscadas. |