Praia de Mira

In February of 1095, D. Raimundo gave the Mira village and all its effects to Zalêma Godinho. And like the generosity of that period, the latter gave half of her estate to the Royal Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra who took great care in improving these lands, turning them into fertile agricultural lands. But Mira was always sea and a lake. And it was the sea and the lake that would "... entertain and captivate the most important Masters of the kingdom, as well as the kings"
We know therefore that the mullets and the barbells’ were special not only in taste, but also in their grandeur! It is in the XIX century that the seafront is occupied, and the haylofts (palheiros), cleverly mounted on pine platforms, began to change the view. In the spring tide the water and the sea flowed through the platforms. Then the fishermen, who have always known how to read the weather, waited for better conditions to go fishing. Today the fishermen still insist on dominating the sea, from the high bow of their multicoloured boats.
On land, the woman continue to wait for the fish and those men who did not go fishing fix metres of net with an inherited expertise. Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, in the little wooden church right next to the beach, has been the devotion saint of many "campaigns". The art of dragnet fishing is marked on the face of those who know the beach well. They know when the wind will bring a good harvest, but the sea is immense and dangerous, therefore they are grateful to their devotion saint.

In February of 1095, D. Raimundo gave the Mira village and all its effects to Zalêma Godinho.
And like the generosity of that period, the latter gave half of her estate to the Royal Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra who took great care in improving these lands, turning them into fertile agricultural lands. But Mira was always sea and a lake. And it was the sea and the lake that would "... entertain and captivate the most important Masters of the kingdom, as well as the kings"

We know therefore that the mullets and the barbells’ were special not only in taste, but also in their grandeur!
It is in the XIX century that the seafront is occupied, and the haylofts (palheiros), cleverly mounted on pine platforms, began to change the view. In the spring tide the water and the sea flowed through the platforms. Then the fishermen, who have always known how to read the weather, waited for better conditions to go fishing. Today the fishermen still insist on dominating the sea, from the high bow of their multicoloured boats.

On land, the woman continue to wait for the fish and those men who did not go fishing fix metres of net with an inherited expertise. Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, in the little wooden church right next to the beach, has been the devotion saint of many "campaigns".
The art of dragnet fishing is marked on the face of those who know the beach well. They know when the wind will bring a good harvest, but the sea is immense and dangerous, therefore they are grateful to their devotion saint.