Ilhavo is a population overturned towards the Atlantic Sea, that bathes a beautiful coast where it excels the Beach gives Bar, equipped with all the services and with waters in which they practice multitude of nautical sports. The Faro is one of greatest of Europe. After the visit, we can enjoy one animated nocturnal life.
Marine Museu of Ílhavo - the Marine Museu of Ílhavo was inaugurated in 1937 and nowadays Rocha Madail lodges itself in a modern building in Avenue Dr. He tries to show the long history of the fishing in the population. In him an important sample dedicated to Ría and the Sea is exhibited, a trip by the tradition in where are to us miniatures of old boats, shells, navigation instruments and equipments of fishing. Account with three permanent exhibitions, Sala Capitão Francisco Marques, dedicated the fishing of the codfish, Room gives Laughs, dedicated to the land-marine tasks made in the lagoon of Aveiro, and the Room two Seas, with collections in miniature of old boats, navigation instruments and equipments of fishing. One of its prettier collections is the one of thousand of shells gathered anywhere in the world.
Ship Santo André - the Ship Santo André is nowadays a museum that shows as it were lived and worked on board of the cod industry ones which they fished the codfish in the congealed seas of the North Atlantic. It was inaugurated the 23 of August of year 2001 in the Jardim Oudinot, Forte gives Bar, in the population of Gafanha de Nazaré. The ship was constructed in Holland in 1948 for the Portuguese Shipbuilder Company of Fishing of Aveiro and has a length of 71.40 meters.