Rio Maior Travel Guide

 solopes Says:  More than 200 meters above sea level, in a large valley in the southern end of the Natural Park of Aire and Candeeiros, a very salty spring is an odd event, that becomes the most distinguished reference of Rio Maior. Locals trade salt (and anything else tourists decide to... 

 solopes Says:  There is really nothing astonishing in Rio Maior but the old centre of town still has some personality, with old churches and mansions recently recovered. 

 solopes Says:  "Baptized" as the house of culture, this modern building is an auditorium with 250 places, built in 2006 by the municipality. 

 solopes Says:  Fifty years ago, Rio Maior was, for me, a garden surrounded by houses, with a small sporting field, where I went to play Hoquei on wheels or handball.Nowadays the field is gone replaced by modern pavilions, and the garden won an also modern church, but it is still there,... 

 solopes Says:  Oh my God!I was not proud with our "Cruzeiro" in Turquel, remembering the nationalist purposes of its construction, during dictatorship (and at its service). Anyway, I accepted that it was a distinguishable element, bad or good, inevitably part of our history.And now, I find... 

 solopes Says:  I remember the old small and nice church of Rio Maior and entered for the first time in the new one. Wide, modern lines, the best of it is the access - easy to reach and... park. 

 berenices Says:  The salt mines of Rio Maior, considered unique of its kind in the country, situated 3 kms from the center of Rio Maior, is an interesting landmark, and a legacy from ancient times. Composed of 400 "fields" occupying an area of more than 20,000 sq m, the water derived from...