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Regularly, the company owner, Commander José Berardo, shocked in 2001 by the destruction by the Taliban of the thousand-year-old statues of Buddha in the cultural landscape and archaeological ruins of the Bamiyan Valley, in Afghanistan, conceived the project of creating a garden as a tribute to the loss of this heritage of humanity.[4] As a result, a 35-hectare space was later opened on the farm, with vegetation where cork and oak trees coexist, and an artificial lake with Chinese carp was installed, surrounded by several terracotta, marble and granite statues of Buddha and other oriental deities, open to visits, initially free of charge, today with a symbolic fee.

The Arnóia River rises in the Serra de Todo o Mundo and flows for 30 km before flowing into the Óbidos Lagoon. A dam was built about one and a half kilometres from Óbidos, in the Horta Valley, whose reservoir was used to irrigate the area's crops.

The Serra de Montejunto Forest Watch Station can be accessed via a pastoral trail from the picnic park. It offers a beautiful panorama of the region north of the Serra.

Castro de Pragança, located in Serra de Montejunto, is an archaeological site occupied from the Neolithic period to the Roman period. Discovered in 1893, its study revealed traces from various eras. Its archaeological collection is distributed across several national museums and, despite several excavation campaigns and studies, the Castro is currently in a state of abandonment. Its fortifications date back to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC, and the materials found include weights and metallic artefacts, indicating a prolonged and complex occupation.

The karst landscape of Montejunto constitutes the extreme southwest of the Estremenho Limestone Massif. Deep valleys, lakes, gravel pits and lapiás are some of the formations found here, testimonies of various geological eras. Water has been the protagonist in erosion phenomena over time. Several deposits of gravel pits result from the cracking of the outcrops caused by the expansion of the water which, when freezing, breaks the rock into small parts. Source: https://montejunto.pt/natureza/paisagens/

It is located in Picoto do Castelo, close to Pragança, on the northwest slope of the Serra de Montejunto. It was discovered in 1893 and since then has been the subject of continued study. Traces found in the area indicate that it was a settlement occupied since the Late Neolithic, through the Copper, Bronze and Iron ages, and finally Romanized, with signs of occupation until the 1st century. several national museums, being considered very important for the study of Prehistory, Protohistory and the Romanization of the country. Castro de Pragança is currently in quite abandoned condition.

Dammed lake for the water supply of Obidos. Nicely situated in the valley