Where can I get information on nature walks in the Monchique area of the Algarve?
I would like details of walks including starting and end points and whether there are any organisations that organise such walks, with guides etc. Thanks
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A walk in the Monchique hills
Take the road up to Monchique and at almost every turn you encounter a stunning panorama of sea and mountains. For the broadest vistas, continue as far as Fóia which at 903 meters is the highest point in the Algarve. From there the view stretches away on one side as far as Cape St. Vincent and north to the Serra da Arrábida near Lisbon, and on the other to Faro and a vast semi-circle of hills.
Picota is 774 meters high, but steeper, and has broad and perhaps to even more beautiful views that take in a long sweep of the Algarve and the sea. `
There are many routes to choose from. The road to Marmelete traverses a landscape of terraced slopes fertile valleys and orchards, passing by the gigantic scar of the “foiaite” quarries at Nave. The narrow tracks that wind into the Serra lead you to places like Romeiras, settled like a sunken ship beneath a sea of mountains, or surprise you with the sudden apparition of lakes like the one formed the dam at Bravura.
The road that leads to the Alentejo passes through some of the most beautiful countryside in the Algarve, a bucolic region blessed with leafy woods and groves of fruit trees watered by fast flowing streams.
It is worth taking the turn off to Barranco dos Pisões evocating the old water driven machinery that was once used to beat the woollen cloth and blankets produced locally. Abandoned water wheels are another sign of the region’s bygone economic importance. But the most spectacular route is perhaps the road down from Alferce to Fornalha and Monchicão through the mountains.
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