Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark
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An immensity of time revealed in a single location…600 million years preserved in rocks and landscapes which extend over 4600 km2…Fantastic places, where devastating Nature is celebrated in a meeting of cultures perpetuated for thousands of years… A region where Mother Earth was particularly generous.
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In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the guidelines from health authorities, Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark reinforce its digital presence. It was created the online platform ''Naturtejo Geopark At Home'' which gathers digital content that ...
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The Castelo Branco Environmental Interpretation Centre is dedicated to the Natural Parque of the International Tejo (PNTI), one of the most important protected areas of the the Naturtejo Geopark, also classified as a Biosphere Reserve. This is a ...
The Conhal do Arneiro is an open pit mining where gold was extracted through the gravitational breakdown of the sedimentary deposits on terraces, comprised of conglomerates. The remains of this mining exploitation of Roman origin occupy a region of ...
Erges Fluvial Gorges, narrow valleys and with abrupt walls, result from the erosion of the river, which excavated its bed in areas of weakness of the rocks, revealing different materials, such as the granites of Salvaterra do Extremo and Segura, the ...
The Agua d’Alta Cliff is the largest existing waterfall in the Naturtejo Geopark and in all of the Beira Baixa, in the Agua d’Alta River, with a drop of 50 metres followed by a succession of 3 veils of turbulent water. It is possible to observe it ...
The Geology and Archaeology Route of Rodao takes visitors on a 500 million year journey dating back to the beginnings of the sediments which gave origin to the quartzite of the Serra das Talhadas. One of the high points of this route is the lookout ...
A colossal granite giant rises abruptly over the vast plain of Castelo Branco, reaching 1227 m high. Surrounded by a pine forest ring up to 800 m, its bare peaks resemble ruined castle. These accumulations of granite morphologies are frequent, ...
The Ichnological Park of Penha Garcia is one of the ex-libris of the Naturtejo Geopark and its geological history dates back 480 million years, when the region was covered by a shallow ocean, full of life, on the margin of the supercontinent ...
Monfortinho Thermal Springs are recognized since the Roman period for the therapeutic properties of their waters and they are a geosite of hydrogeological importance. These natural mineral waters are the result of a complex and slow process of deep ...
From the Surface of the Castelo Branco Plain rise extraordinary the Inselberg granites of Monsanto-Moreirinha-Alegrios, like an archipelago of granite. These geological formations, hills which abruptly emerge from the surface, stand out like ...
The Ponsul’s Fault is a large tectonic structure, a scar that crosses the territory of the Naturtejo Geopark, from Termas de Monfortinho to Nisa.
Its origin dates back around 300 million years ago, when the continents were approaching to form ...
Portas de Almourão Geomonument is an enchanted place where Ocreza disembowelled the intensely deformed quarzite cliffs with its erosive force over time. From the lookout points it is possible to see the Foz do Cobrao and the Sobral Fernando ...
In the Portas de Ródão Natural Monument the largest river on the Iberian Peninsula, the Tejo, runs entrenched and submissive between the giant quartzite formations. The river erosion advanced at a speed of only 10 cm every 1000 years over the last ...
The Rock Art Interpretation Centre presents the long and complex history of the landscape and cultural space in Vila Velha de Ródão, with the emphasis on the Rock Art of the Tagus Valley, very important in the national panorama. The exhibition also ...
The Roman Mining Complex is a remarkable testimony of the roman mining activity of the gold exploitation in the northeastern roman province "Hispania Vlterior Lusitania". The spectacular dimensions achieved by these auriferous open pit works has ...
Since the middle of the 19th century, and for approximately 100 years, the varied mineral resources of the Segura region were exploited in a more or less systematic manner. A mining complex was built in Segura, one of the most relevant in all of the ...
How is gold made? Where does it appear? How is it exploited? In order to respond to all of these questions we suggest "There´s gold in the river mouth", a mining activity in the Ocreza River that reconstructs the old mining processes used by the ...
The Vila Velha de Rodao petrified trunks are real testimony to the tropical forest which covered the region more than 5 million years ago. These represent remains of petrified trees, in which the organic material that comprised them was slowly ...
The quartzite cliffs of Zêzere Gorge are impressive successive layers of pure quartzite erected vertically at hundreds of meters of altitude and flanked by chaotic slope deposits drained to the banks of the river Zêzere. They are records of a ...
