Nazaré Portugal

Portugal’s Costa de Prata (Silver Coast) stretches from Lisbon to Figueira da Foz and is a gem of largely undiscovered beauty that gets its name from the effect of the sun on the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Here you can discover pretty villages and a real Portuguese way-of-life amongst stunning coastal scenery fringed with the best beaches in Europe. Because much of this area of Portugal remains undiscovered by the mass tourism market you can virtually guarantee a beach to yourself even in the height of the season!!

Portugal’s Silver Coast offer´s year round delightful weather, quaint fishing towns, medieval villages, excellent cuisine, high quality wine and world class golf courses.

All of this is now less than an hour drive from Lisbon International airport, linking the vibrant capital of Portugal with historic Oporto in the North. This little known region is opening its doors to the outside world!

With a minimum deposit of 4,950 Euros and total investment being just 13.557 Euros, The Nazaré Vilas represents a fantastic opportunity to buy into a superbly designed Condominium. Investors are being offered the chance to reap the benefits Portugal's thriving market by investing in the Nazaré Vilas, just north of Lisbon

Why invest in Nazaré Vilas?

All houses have: Private garden seaside at main entrance Private yard accessing the garage Integrated security system High quality of construction Luxury Finishing Careful architecture Beautiful sights Several access ways Excellent beaches around Excellent urban location practically within the village.

NAZARE

Nazaré is a town and a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 82,4 km² and a total population of 14,904 inhabitants. It is in sub region Oeste and Leiria district.

It has become a popular tourist attraction, advertising itself as a picturesque seaside village. Located on the Atlantic coast, it has long sandy beaches (considered by some to be among the best beaches of Portugal), crowded with tourists in the summer. The town used to be known for its traditional costumes worn by the fishermen. Their wife’s worn the traditional headscarf and embroidered aprons over seven flannel skirts in different colors. These dresses can still occasionally be seen. Nazaré is the most famous fishing town in Portugal, unique in many ways. It doesn’t contain the architectural treasures or grandiose monuments prevalent in other Portuguese towns, but it has an atmosphere of times gone by, contentment and traditions which continue to thrive, which make it a special place to visit

The town consists of three sections: A Praia (along the beach), O Sítio (an old town, on top of a cliff) and Pederneira (an old town, on a hilltop). The A Praia and O Sítio areas are linked by the Nazaré Funicular, a funicular railway.The original settlements were in Pederneira and in O Sítio above the beach. They were the inhabitants' safe bases against raids by Algerian, French, English and Dutch pirates that lasted even till the beginning of the 19th century.

According to legend, the town derives its name from a small statue of the Virgin Mary, a Black Madonna, brought by a monk in the 4th century from Nazareth, Palestine to a monastery near the city of Mérida, Spain and brought to its current place in 711 by another monk accompanied by Roderic, the last Visigoth king. After their arrival at the seaside they decided to become hermits. The monk lived and died in a small already existing grotto, on top of a cliff above the sea. After his death and according to the monk wishes the king buried him in the grotto where he left, on an altar, the statue of the Black Madonna.

The first church in O Sítio, was built over the grotto to commemorate a miraculous intervention (1182) by the Virgin Mary in saving the life of the 12th century Portuguese knight Dom Fuas Roupinho, possibly a templar, while he was hunting deer in a foggy early morning. In memory of the miracle he had a chapel (Capela da Memória) built over the small grotto, where the miraculous statue had been left (c.715) by king Roderic after the monk's death. Beside the chapel, on a protuberant rock 110 meters above the Atlantic, one can still see the mark made in the rock by one of the hands of Dom Fuas horse.

In 1377, King Fernando I of Portugal founded a new more spacious church which was totally transformed between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Church of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré is a rich baroque building, with splendid tiles on its interior. Behind and above the main altar visitors can see and venerate the miraculous image of our Lady of Nazaré.

The municipality is composed of 3 parishes, and is located in the Leiria. It is one of the most popular seaside resorts in the Silver Coast/Costa de Prata, Portugal.

The Casa Museu do Pescador (R. Sousa Lobo) is a small museum dedicated to the fishing population of Nazaré. Contained within a traditional cottage, it has been lovingly restored to show the exterior and interior of the home of a typical fishing family for the early part of the 20th century.