It's a different walk than usual, located on Santinho beach. Visitors observe and appreciate the Rock Inscriptions in the open air, possibly written between one and four thousand years ago. The rock inscriptions or petroglyphs are graphic expressions marked on rocky surfaces, almost always in high places such as cliffs, cliffs and walls.
A Santinho beach owes its name to a rock inscription, whose shape resembled a small saint. Fishermen used to make a symbolic cult to this now-vanished inscription, lighting candles and praying for protection and abundant fishing. The path that forms the route is signposted, paved and part of the archaeological complex was protected by a shading structure.
Still on the trail, it is possible to observe four groups of petroglyphs, distributed in an extensive shore of diabase, and difficult to access: anthropomorphic figures, geometric schemes, panels and isolated signs in low relief. There are also traces of lithic workshops, engraved in the cavity of the stones, with dozens of smoothing where, by the sea, the instruments of the primitive populations were sharpened.
address and Visitation
At Praia do Santinho, following the trail along the Costão to the right of the beach.
The schedule is free, but the ideal is to visit during the day.
Gratuitous.
Archaeological Trail - Archaeoastronomy Center
The Archaeoastronomy Center, in partnership with the Multidisciplinary Institute for the Environment and Archaeoastronomy – IMMA, brings together a collection of rock art panels (frotagens), archaeological artifacts, photographic panels, in addition to the trail created to give access to the megalithic monuments of Morro da Galheta, the Prayer Trail. ... [See more]
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