The general area contains all kinds of information about activities and places of interest in the area. In addition to the beautiful kilometers long reservoir where you can enjoy swimming or fishing, you can also enjoy walking and cycling in the wooded and hilly area.

Below are some suggestions:

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  • Convento de Christo (UNESCO), is a monastery built by the Order of the Knights Templar.
  • Museu dos fósforos, a match museum with more than 43,000 matchboxes.
  • Aqueduto dos Pegões Alto, a 5 km long aqueduct, which supplied the Convento de Christo with water.
  • Barragem de Castelo de Bode, a concrete arch gravity dam on the Zêzere River.
Vila de Rei

  • Picoto da Melriça, is the geographical center of Portugal with breathtaking views.
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  • Mosteiro Santa Maria da Vitória, Dominican abbey (UNESCO) in Portuguese Gothic/Manuel style
Coimbra

  • Biblioteca Joanina, a Baroque university library
  • Museu da Ciência da Universidade, science and natural history museum
  • Jardim Botânico, 18th century garden with large fountains and tropical plants
  • Portugal dos pequenitos, theme park with the world in miniature
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  • Mosteiro de Santa Maria, largest church in Portugal.
Leiria

  • The cathedral from the 16th-18th century
  • The Sao Pedro church (Romanesque)
  • The Nossa Senhora da Pena church (Gothic)
  • Sanctuaries of Nossa Senhora da Encarnacao (16th century).
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  • Santuário de Fátima, world famous pilgrimage site comparable to Lourdes.
  • Fun park, Kartódromo de Fátima, including paintball, karting, tree trail, climbing.
Mira de Aire

  • Grutas de Mira de Aire, stalactite caves.
  • Parque Aquatico, water park open from June to September.
 
 Nazare Nazare

  • Widest beach in Portugal
Agroal

  • Praia Fluvial do Agroal, ice-cold natural swimming pool (whose water is said to be medicinal).
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  • Castelo do Almourol, a fairytale castle built on an island in the Tagus.
Torres Novas 

  • Fortress from the 12th century.
  • 16th century Misericordia church, renaissance.
  • Igreja de Santiago, 12th century.
  • Museu Municipal de Carlos Reis, ancient paintings, statues and objects from Roman times.
  • Ruins of Vila Cardilio, 4th century.
  • Baths of mosaics
  • Grutas da Lapas, Neolithic caves
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  • Igreja do Seminario from 1640.
  • Igreja de Marvila, Manuel style from the 12th century.
  • Torre das Cabacas, formerly a clock tower, now a museum.
  • Jardim das Portas do Sol, panorama over the Tagus River.
  • Igreja da Graca, this is where the discoverer of Brazil is buried, Pedro Alvares Cabral.
  • Igreja do Santissimo Milagre, a crystal vial in the sacristy is said to contain blood of Jesus Christ.