A long, fine sandy beach that is rarely visited in the off-season. Several hundred meters wide at low tide. Everyone can find their own lonely place there.
An important natural product is extracted from the sea's saltwater here. Only through the power of the elements, sun and wind, which evaporate the water in the saltworks' shallow basins, …
At the mouth of the Guadiana River lies the Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António Marshland Nature Reserve, the first reserve created in Portugal (1975) and one of the country's most emblematic wetlands.