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Mareta Beach

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  • Mareta Beach

  • Algarve

  • Vila do Bispo

  • Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park

  • No

  • Access from:
    -  Lagos -  Vila do Bispo - N125 (0.5 Km). Go through 7 roundabouts without leaving N125 (22.2 km). Continue straight to N268 (8.6 Km). Turn left onto street N. Sra. da Graça (400 m). At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto street  Praia da Mareta (300 m). Turn right and at the end is Mareta beach.
     
    To park the car is preferable, at the last roundabout, cut to Av. Comandante Raposo (3rd exit) and park next to the Sagres Garden, where is the statue of Prince Henry and the tourist office.

  • The rocks exposed in the coastal cliffs of Mareta and Cilheta are fundamental to the study of Upper Middle Jurassic (175 to 150 million years ago) in the context of the Iberian Peninsula. The limestones  at the base of the cliffs contain traces of coral reefs, originated in a shallow continental shelf in warmer water than today. The marly layers overlapping them show deeper marine environments. During the last glaciation, about 19,000 years ago, eolianites were formed, wind accumulations formed against the coastal cliffs, when the average sea level was lower than the current one.

  • National