This walk takes us through a very beautiful area of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, between the Rio da Mula Dam and Quinta do Pisão, and past the Pedra Amarela slope, with unobstructed views of the coastline. We'll use various trails and green paths, among scenery of great and authentic mountain beauty, to then reach our starting point. Another event not to be missed!

Rio da Mula Dam:

The Rio da Mula Dam is located in the Serra de Sintra in the municipality of Cascais, to the east of what was then known as Costa Queimada, to the west and south of Tapada do Saldanha and to the north of Quinta do Pisão. The dam's reservoir divides the municipalities of Sintra and Cascais. The Rio da Mula Dam is bathed by the Mula stream that gives it its name and has its source near Casal dos Porqueiros and Matos Piedade near Tapada do Saldanha. It is 27 kilometres long and in Cascais, under the name of Ribeira das Vinhas, it flows into Praia da Ribeira. The dam as we know it today began to be built according to a 1963 project and was completed in 1969.

Quinta do Pisão

Human presence at Quinta do Pisão dates back to prehistoric times, with traces in the Porto Covo cave referenced as belonging to the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods and the Bronze Age and Iron Age, i.e. between 4500 and 5000 years ago. The cave was probably used as a necropolis.

Dedicated à activity agro-sylvo-pastoral, this Thursday invites o visitor a travel the their rails, properly signalled, being given the know a routine of a Thursday in this region. To long of various paths of Thursday are panels interpretative with identification of heritage built, fauna and flora predominant. A landscape is characterised by by a mosaic of vegetation extremely rich e that corresponds a a high diversity of habitats. They can be observed several species fauna wild, namely a heron, a round-winged eagle, a geneta, a fox, between other. In Quinta do Pisão can know the donkeys Mirandese, animals of race Asinine de Miranda. These donkeys woollen have performed a paper fundamental in support à management of pastures of Fifth. To beyond of these animals, Quinta do Pisão has yet some horses and a core of sheep e lambs of race belfry.

- Barragem do Rio da Mula - Quinta do Pisão - Bosques - Gruta de Porto Covo - Forno de Cal de Porto Covo - Penedo de Alvante - Encosta da Pedra Amarela - Natural landscapes -