Town of Portugal of about 9,000 inhabitants, located in the region of Estremadoura (Leiria) In century XII, the gentleman of the neighboring castle of Porto de Mós rode between the fog in persecution of some piece of hunting, when suddenly the horse stopped in dry on the brink of madness a precipice; in order to thank for to the Virgin the salary to him saved the life, the horseman decided to consecrate in that same place a chapel to Our Mrs. of Nazaré. Four centuries later, on the foot of the cliff, 110 M.s more down, settled down the port. Leaving back praia sandy, the district of Praia (the beach), during long time inhabited only by fishermen, today has been transformed also into the one of the veraneantes. It must his celebrity to the returns of the fishing flotilla and to its customs of pueblecito of the Portuguese coast. For already several years, only some families have been still conserving the traditional life; Nazaré arranges, in effect, of a new deep water port, in extremity S of the beach, constructed in foz (estuary) of a small coastal river. One has thus become one of the first sardineros ports of Europe with own conserveras facilities: the fish, spanish stew to the steam as soon as captured, he himself day is tinned. In the way of foz, it is necessary to integrate itself in the auction (after the noon, in principle) to participate in his tumultuoso atmosphere. The city of century XVI, with side streets (almost) straight has conserved, partly, its pebble pavements, polished by the rubbing of the barefoot feet. There they are exposed still, in front of the doors, the fresh fish for the drying. From this district it leaves to funicular that it allows to reach, in minutes, the terrace of Site (to 3 km by highway). Site is a great town, with its bullring; it is also the district of the great annual manifestations. On both sides of the chapel-oratorio (reconstructed in century XVII), the viewpoints in cornice offer an impressive spectacle of the bath station, the old sandy beach port, furthermost, the cliffs of Sao Martinho and the bay, considered like most dangerous of the coast: if it is frequented, it must to that also she is one of most abundant in fish. Nazaré counts on a third district, the one of Pederneira (by the highway of Alcobaça), the one of its origins (century XIII): perspective of the terrace of the Mercy, from where the set of the bay is controlled. Main festejos: Infernales sea of carnival, “fanfarrias”; at the beginning of September, romería to Our Mrs. of Nazaré, and fair (in Site): bullfighting foldor and spectacles in the bullring.
To today understand the Celebration of the Bulls in Nazaré without sharing its wonderful gastronomical, tourist or festive excellence (the Carnival, the celebrations of September…) error is craso that very few carry out. Very few populations in Portugal and Spain can offer that exceptional extraordinary mixture of attractive: sun, beach, gastronomy and bulls. And everything, of First. That is the truth ". Nazaré is a profusion of sensations, matchless trowel of colors that go from the unpollluted target from their houses to blue the incomparable one of their sea the Australian Continent.”