Visits

An amazing, authentic and educational tour through Aveiro´s salt ponds, during which you will get to know the history, traditions and secrets behind this ancient activity. Our guides will explain the process of the water circulation in the salt marshes and the mysteries behind the salt formation. You will, also, have the opportunity to learn about and be in touch with the implements used in the...

Located in the “Marinha Passagem”, the oyster nurseries are an area of approximately 8 hectares, surrounded by the “Ria de Aveiro” canals, with the city at its horizon. It is situated on a former 16th century harbour, used by the Portuguese caravels that transported ceramic to the most diverse parts of the world.Once a salt marsh and fish-farming nurseries, recently remodelled, it offers...

Come and visit a revealing and didactic place, where you take part in the manufacture of the traditional “Ovos Moles”. In the “Oficina do Doce” (sweet workshop) you will have the opportunity to know the historic side of the “Ovos moles” and of other convent-made sweets from the region of Aveiro. The bolder ones will have the chance to experiment the process of filling and cutting the...

Visit one of the most iconic wine cellars of the region of “Bairrada”. Founded in 1920, the Caves de S. João (S. João Wine Cellars) are about to celebrate its 100º anniversary.These wine cellars have always been allied to avant-gardism and tradition. In 1930, it started to commercialize sparkling wines and in 1959 it also focused on high quality bottled wine, commercializing it both at...

To visit the Ílhavo Maritime Museum is to go aboard on an adventure of senses, knowledge and leisure.The Ílhavo Maritime Museum (MMI) is today a very unique museum. Its mission is to preserve the memories of the sea work and develop the maritime culture and identity of the Portuguese people. Museum, Aquarium and Investigation define the present Museum, an institution dedicated to all coastal...

On the Aveiro walking food tour we take you on a journey of sensations of the gastronomic region of Aveiro. During the walking tour through the historic centre of Aveiro, the guide escorting you, besides telling you about the secrets of the local culture and some curiosities of the city, will be stopping you at several local restaurants so you can get to know and taste some of the typical...

A Ship of stories and history, memories and identities.The Santo André Ship Museum (NMSA) is an extension of the Ílhavo Maritime Museum. In August 2001, Santo André Ship started a new cycle of his life, showing to the present people and the ones to come, how the codfish fishing was and honour, this way, all the crewmen working hard for half century in this area.In NMSA you will have the...