The elegant lines of the Capuchos Monastery ( Almada ) establish the balance achieved with the magnificent view. Prime location over Atlantic Ocean, from the Capuchos Monastery, you can admire Lisbon, Serra de Sintra, Cascais Bay, Arrabida Hills and Cape Espichel. The simplicity and the dispossession of the building reflect the principles of the Franciscan...

The Naval Museum is located at the old Companhia Portuguesa de Pescas in Olho-de-Boi. Naval Museum has the goal to preserve the memories of the old generations associeted to the progress and development of the naval activity, through exhibitions and promotional activities. Born in 1991 and ten years after presented exhibitions with the several techniques into...

The statue of Christ the King was erected at a height of 113 meters above sea level, as sign of gratitude of peace because Portugal didn’t went on the World War II according Cardeal D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (the mentor of the project) . D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, after a trip to Christ Redentor in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) in 1934 though on his...

Almada came from the Arabic word “al-Ma’dan” and mean mine. During the Arab occupation of the Iberian Peninsula, there was a fortress to guard and defend the entrance of enemies hrough Rio Tejo (Tagus River) and having grown up as agriculture and fishing area. Almada has always been a meeting between the Atlantic Ocean and river, a place of passage of...