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Varanda de Pilatos (Pilatos’s balcony)

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Attention: on windy days and / or bad weather do NOT visit this location as it becomes extremely dangerous. Being a limestone area be careful with the crevices. Not suitable for children and special disabled people.

 

Before arriving at the lighthouse, in the limestone cliff next to the Atlantic Ocean is the viewpoint called "Varanda de Pilatos" (Pilatos’s balcony), from where you can admire “Nau dos Corvos” (ship of the Cormorants, a cliff near the coast where the cormorants usually rest), Carvoeiro Cape, with its lighthouse, and, on clear days, the Berlengas archipelago.

 

As part of the geossite "peninsula of peniche ", and being on a limestone platform, the wind, rain and the sea erosion have sculptured beautiful forms originating a karren field.

 

Lapiaz or karren field - common landscape in limestone areas, with many grooves due to the dissolution of limestone by rainwater along fractures and cracks.

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  • Attention: on windy days and / or bad weather do NOT visit this location as it becomes extremely dangerous. Being a limestone area be careful with the crevices. Not suitable for children and special disabled people.

     

    Before arriving at the lighthouse, in the limestone cliff next to the Atlantic Ocean is the viewpoint called "Varanda de Pilatos" (Pilatos’s balcony), from where you can admire “Nau dos Corvos” (ship of the Cormorants, a cliff near the coast where the cormorants usually rest), Carvoeiro Cape, with its lighthouse, and, on clear days, the Berlengas archipelago.

     

    As part of the geossite "peninsula of peniche ", and being on a limestone platform, the wind, rain and the sea erosion have sculptured beautiful forms originating a karren field.

     

    Lapiaz or karren field - common landscape in limestone areas, with many grooves due to the dissolution of limestone by rainwater along fractures and cracks.

  • Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

  • Peniche

  • Berlengas Nature Reserve

  • Yes

  • Access to Peniche from:

    - Caldas da Rainha (30 km) – N8, IP6 and N114;

    - Cadaval (39 km) – N247-1, N247, IP6 e N114;

    - Rio Maior (47 km) – N14, A15 to Óbidos. Exit 14 on A8 to IP6 and N114;

    - Lisbon (102 km) - A36/A8, on A8 exit 14 to IP6 and N114.

     

    Varanda de Pilatos (Pilatos’s balcony) is next to the N114 road towards Carvoeiro Cape.

     

    GPS: 39.362211, -9.407391

     

    Public transports

    Buses from Lisbon (Rodoviária do Oeste or Rede de Expressos)

    Train (Dagorda - Peniche)

  • Touristic

  • Public

  • Not far away see also “Nau dos Corvos” (Cormorant’s ship) Papôa's volcanic breccia and visit the lighthouse of Carvoeiro Cape (see the website of the Portuguese Navy for visits).