It is the first Portuguese park that integrates the global network of European Geopark under the auspices of UNESCO.
There are 600 million years to discover in an area covering 4,600 km2 extending for six Portuguese municipalities. Geopark Naturtejo southern plateau offers a series of routes that will seduce lovers not only of nature, as also history and geology. A natural heritage that gives the possibility to observe the huge variety of birds, some of the rarest and most emblematic of the entire Iberian Peninsula. "The doors of Ródão serve as habitat for the largest colony of griffons in the country, are a prime location for the investigation of wildlife and birds, which can be observed 116 bird species, many of them considered endangered including most importantly the black stork, royal hawk, black vulture, eagle hound, snipe, eagle owl, mountain and dunnock-flycatcher, "as quoted in the site Naturtejo. Regarding flora, will be still "often encounter towering trees with many years of age and with a load that is imposed on the landscape. Some of them are protected as living monuments of public interest, through the route of monumental trees.
Another of the attractions referenced is "the ancient history of this region. The ruins of the Civitas Egitânia in Idanha-a-Velha, the Palaeolithic stations and Tagus prehistoric art and megalithic regions of Nisa and Rosmaninhal are important centers of archaeological interest. The ancient practices, living witnesses of multiple singularities of raiana culture have strong roots in the landscape. The status of "most Portuguese village of Portugal", given to Monsanto and the schist villages scattered across the Naturtejo Geopark are symbols of very well preserved ethnographic wealth" also refers. Some itineraries also include routes passes through rocks with a "set of geological elements of high scientific value, educational and cultural, that enable to tell the story of the earth. In Geopark Naturtejo are numerous instances of distinguished geological rocks, fossils, landscapes, shapes and mines "as follows.
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