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Old salt pans in Ria Formosa Natural Park

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Old salt pans in Ria Formosa Natural Park

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Old salt pans in Ria Formosa Natural Park

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Parque Natural da Ria Formosa

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Location: Olhão, Algarve, Portugal

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1. Salt Ponds of Ria Formosa loop from Olhão

52.9km

03:40

240m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Salt Pans of Olhão – Beautiful forest section loop from Faro

126km

07:53

610m

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Bike loop from Olhão

20.0km

01:16

70m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Christoph

November 13, 2025

A very well-developed cycle path with the following destinations:

Olhão is a city in Portugal with 14,206 inhabitants (as of April 19, 2021). Olhão is located in the so-called Sand Algarve, the Sotavento. This is the name given to the region that stretches between Faro Airport and the Spanish border in eastern Portugal.

Among the numerous architectural monuments are a number of historic public buildings, various social housing blocks from the Estado Novo regime, the 17th-century fortress, and two Baroque parish churches. The historic town center as a whole is also a protected monument, and a tidal mill can be visited just outside the city.

The Ria Formosa Natural Park is a nature park surrounding a lagoon in the southern Portuguese Algarve. With a protected area of 170 km², the lagoon is one of the largest lagoonal nature reserves in Europe. The lagoon itself covers 83.5 km².

Fuseta, also known as Fuzeta, is a town and former municipality on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal. The German author Holger Karsten Schmidt, writing under the pseudonym Gil Ribeiro, created a crime series set here.

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Johann

August 19, 2023

Salt was mined here, very natural.

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Radeljunge

May 7, 2024

Great and different salt mines can be discovered here.

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Old salt pans in Ria Formosa Natural Park

1. Salt Ponds of Ria Formosa loop from Olhão

2. Salt Pans of Olhão – Beautiful forest section loop from Faro

3. Bike loop from Olhão

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