Mareta Beach - Sagres

It is the first beach south of the coast, setting up a wide bay to the nascent cable, S. Vicente, that protects the prevailing winds and waves. The extensive sand is embedded between abrupt limestone cliffs where they can sight huge crack and "sapas" (cavities excavated at the base of the cliff). Along the line of the tide is the common limestone pavement (is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles artificial pavement), with their curious ways, colonized by eye-catching plants as pampilho-sea. Inserted in the village of Sagres, Mareta beach is a very popular and appreciated for providing baths calm and a good starting point for making diving in the many caves of the submerged inlet. There are traces of this beach kilns and ovens medieval, used by the sixth century. XVI. However, the favorite of surfers in days of tides troubled by offering big waves and regular, conducive to the practice of this sport.
It has ample parking but not ordered, with support equipment (restaurant and WC) and on the beach nearby. Surveillance only in bathing season.
(Source: visitalgarve)

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