Silver Coast Norte - Praia de São Pedro de Moel

Cercado dos Veados
In Sítio, on the way to Praia do Norte, in the Pinewood of Our Lady of Nazaré we find the "Cercado dos Veados" – “the Deer Reserve”, a joint project of the Municipality of Nazaré and the Confraria (Brotherhood of Our Lady of Nazaré), in order to evoke and remember the miracle of Our Lady of Nazaré to the Knight D. Fuas Roupinho. Here you can see several specimens of red deer. The red deer or red deer (Cervus elaphus) is a species of large deer in the northern hemisphere, distributed across Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is the largest deer after the Elk. Males can reach 250 kilograms and females up to 150 kilograms.

Praia de Paredes da Vitória
O topónimo “Paredes” é relativamente comum e regra geral indica que os povoadores que lhes deram os nomes encontraram “paredes” ou “muros”, isto é, ruínas de povoados anteriores, de cujo nome não havia memória. Assim, Paredes da Vitória, Vale de Paredes e praia das Paredes são topónimos que designam a mesma povoação, situada no litoral norte do concelho de Alcobaça, freguesia de Pataias. As referências à povoação são muito antigas, existindo mesmo vestígios na Serra d’Aire e dos Candeeiros de uma estrada romana (Estrada Romana da Carreirancha - Alqueidão da Serra) datada entre os séculos I a.C. e I d.C., que faria a ligação entre Tomar, o porto de Paredes, Collipo (Leiria) e Conimbriga.

Praia de Vale Furado
Praia de Vale Furado is a beach located in Pataias, Leiria District, in central Portugal, roughly between Nazaré and São Pedro de Moel.The beach is part of the Portuguese Costa de Prata and is renowned not only for its sandstone cliffs but also its geological heritage: part of the Feligueira Grande formation, the extinct genus of Iberosuchus, a mesoeucrocodylian, was first described here in 1975, a tapir (Paralophiodon cf. leptorhynchum) was also found in addition to other unidentified crocodiles, chelonians and small mammals.

Norte beach
Located to the north of the imposing Nazaré Promontory (Promontório da Nazaré), better known as “Sítio”, Praia do Norte is an unsupervised beach. It feels like a wild beach, with dunes that preserve the original vegetation.

Praia de São Pedro de Moel
It is a seaside village, west of the cities of Marinha Grande and Leiria. In 1463 Afonso V gave São Pedro de Moel to the Count of Vila Real. The family had a palace in Leiria and several houses in São Pedro de Moel. They lived on this beach until 1641, when the last Marquis of Vila Real and his son, Duke of Caminha, were executed. The widowed Duquesa de Caminha mourned the death of her husband on a rocky outcrop overlooking the ocean, which is named in his honour - Penedo da Saudade - at the top of which there is a lighthouse of the sam

Farol Penedo da Saudade
This lighthouse, also known as the Penedo da Saudade lighthouse, is located 800 metres north of S. Pedro de Moel, at an altitude of 55 metres. Its tower is 32 metres high and has a stone spiral staircase with 136 steps.
It was inaugurated on 15 February 1912. However, from March 1916 to December 1919 the lighthouse was out of service due to the First World War. Initially, a large 3rd order optical apparatus (500 mm focal length) was installed, the rotation of the optics being produced by a clockwork. The light source was oil vapour incandescence.
The lighthouse was equipped with electricity in 1947 with the installation of generator sets and was only connected to the public electricity network in 1980, when it was also automated. The power of the lamp used in the lighthouse, which was 6000 watts in 1947, was gradually reduced to the current 1000 watts.