Portugal route07

• Total distance: ? km
• Official biketour Portuguese number: +351964047001 (not working now! try +491636824001 )

Coordinators are Joao , Marcos , Alexandre

• Active places:

Trás-os-Montes

• (human desertification)
  • Sabor river dam - fight against
  • Aldeia Ngo from region, that protects nature and promotes sustainable development
  • Deactivation of train lines in interior
    • Tua
      • train accident pictures
    • Ciclovias

Serra da Estrela

• Documentary about the remaining shepherds
• Cultural association

Lousã

• Interesting villages and communities
  • Possible place to be hosted: Pedrógão Pequeno

Coimbra

• Academic town, with active student groups
• Nearby there's Mira. There's a plan to install a major fishing company industry on the protected beach

Santarém

• Mayor is pushing the use of bikes, and he himself uses it

Lisboa

• Critical Mass event
• Social center of Mouraria

Almada

• Good but polemic Transportation policies are being implemented

Sudoeste Alentejano

• Natural Parks being threatned by building plans for luxury resorts and golf. PIN question
• cork
  • portuguese news article
  • WWF's Mediterranean Cork Oak Forest Programme

Tamera

• Most well known portuguese community

Centro de Convergência

• Promoting dynamism and development of rural areas of Alentejo

Aljezur

• Ecotopia
• nearby
  • Bio wine farmer

• Ideas:

other possible Sleeping places

other places

After ecotopia?

• Idea of doing a route through the south till Tarifa, main point where the African immigrants arrive (dead or alive)
  • Something that has to be talked before and during Ecotopia
• Biggest greenway (ecovias) being built in Portugal, east to west in the south, Algarve
  • Maps
  • Video