Portugal route07

• Total distance: ? km
• Official biketour Portuguese number: +351964047001

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
      • Ciclovias
  • Serra da Estrela
    • Documentary about the remaining shepherds
    • Cultural association
  • Lousã
    • Interesting villages and communities
  • 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 bold Transportation policies are being implemented
  • Sudoeste Alentejano
    • Natural Parks being threatned by building plans for luxury resorts and golf. PIN question
  • Tamera
    • Most well known portuguese community
  • Centro de Convergência
    • Promoting dynamism and development of rural areas of Alentejo
  • Aljezur
    • Ecotopia
    • Bio wine farmer

• Ideas:

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