Portugal North to South: Lisbon to Sagres

The selected routes in this Coast To Coast Cycling holidays will provide views that you will certainly keep on memories. For your experience Cycling Portugal North to South we suggest you enjoy the first night to feel the life of the neighborhoods of Lisbon, including Alfama to Bairro Alto. On the first stage you will cycle on the edge of Tejo River and can visit the main historic sites of Lisbon and feel the beauty of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, which is also the capital further to the west of the European continent on the Atlantic coast. Lisbon and Sagres, start and end locations of this program are the main landmarks of the Portuguese discoveries and of this coast to coast cycling holidays. Also on first stage you will cross the Tejo River by ferry boat on the place where 500 years ago, passed the ships and caravels of the Portuguese discoveries. Also by ferry boat, in the third stage, you will have the opportunity to cross the Sado estuary, formed more than 5000 years, currently Nature Reserve with the registration of 221 species of birds and which usually enjoys the dolphins presence.

On your journey from coast to coast you will pass through the Arrabida Natural Park, biogenetic reserve with maquis vegetation born of this Mediterranean-like microclimate with similarities Adriatic regions, such as Dalmatia. In which they inhabit a considerable number of species, a total of 213 vertebrate: 8 amphibians, reptiles 16, 154 birds and 35 mammals. Cycling Portugal North to South will let you explore beautiful beaches, villages and quaint towns, healthy and delicious food and wine, excellent friendly and welcoming people, are a few of the ingredients that you will find along this route.

The last three stages will take you along the Alentejo and Costa Southwest, Vicentina Natural Park, where there is a mix of Mediterranean vegetation, the north Atlantic and Africa. There’s about 750 species, of which more than 100 are endemic, rare or localized; 12 there are nowhere else in the world. This journey full of flavors, knowledge and adventure ends in Sagres, on the southwestern tip of continental Europe, place full of history, present and future, where in the fifteenth century Henrique the Navigator installed Famous Nautical School.