Vila Nova de Milfontes, just in the estuary where the Mira river ends, is a very tempting destiny for all those that please to contemplate migratory birds, to bathe in calm beaches, to practice nautical sports and to enjoy typical celebrations. And he is that all the 15 of August, to honor to Nossa Senhora give Graça, are celebrated the traditional fluvial procession where the fishermen honor their pattern. All the tourists approach until the water to contemplate the sacred spectacle.
After seeing how the ivy climbs up the walls of the Fort of Milfontes, that was raised at the end of century XVI in the heat of estuary, the beaches of Farol and Furnas invite us to first chapuzón. The heat of the summer days is fought better in fresh waters of the Atlantic.
Vila Nova de Milfontes is a Portuguese villa located to near 200 km to the south of Lisbon. Provided with gorgeous coastal landscapes, Milfontes provides to the visitors beaches of sea and river, with calm waters or with surge. Inclined essentially for the tourist supply, Milfontes finishes for being for many the place where it is possible to be enjoyed a calm life and quality, deserved at the end of many and many years of work well. For but young and the enterprising ones, this villa constitutes a true sea of opportunities already, being many people who knew to improve their life offering tourist products of quality and with the adapted price to the reality of the tourists.
Vila Nova de Milfontes cannot be shamed for being, from long ago, affectionately call Princess of the Alentejo. To all those that live in Vila Nova, to all those whom, year after year they spend here his vacations, to all those that they have the privilege to take advantage of his resources and to all those that still they did not have opportunity to know this earth alentejana