PR10 SNT - Peninha (with detours)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.01 mi
- Elevation gain
- 807 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 807 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,561 ft
- TrailRank
- 41
- Min elevation
- 1,561 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 46 minutes
- Time
- 3 hours 2 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1398
- Uploaded
- April 9, 2023
- Recorded
- April 2023
near Peninha, Lisboa (Portugal)
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Itinerary description
The circular route begins at the site of Peninha, in the middle of the Senitic nucleus of the eruptive massif of Sintra, a place of worship, shows signs of human permanence since the Neolithic. It is surmounted by a hermitage, from where you can see a vast landscape that goes from Cape Espichel, to the south, to the Berlengas, to the north. It includes a set of buildings classified as Property of Public Interest.
The characteristics of the surrounding vegetation - meadows and bushes - were determined by ancestral agropastoral use, strong winds and successive fires.
The path flanks the hermitage of S. Saturnino and continues through a small cupressal of Buçaco cedar (Cupressus lusitanica), a tree not native to Portugal but to central America, which evidences attempts at reforestation of the mountains. Even today here they find conditions to survive some species-relic of the forest of ever-green woody - the Laurissilva.
You can visit the Adrenunes where the layout of the rocks resembles a megalithic monument of tapus type. You will see the lighthouse of Cabo da Roca and Pedra da Ursa, Peninha, the Adraga valley and, further away, the houses of Praia das Maçãs.
In the Pedras Irmãs snack park you are again surrounded by cedars, already near the starting place of the route.
There was two additions to the original trail, right in the beginning to see a few fountains and wild horses. After we visited Peninha we did a detour and went to a lake near by.
The characteristics of the surrounding vegetation - meadows and bushes - were determined by ancestral agropastoral use, strong winds and successive fires.
The path flanks the hermitage of S. Saturnino and continues through a small cupressal of Buçaco cedar (Cupressus lusitanica), a tree not native to Portugal but to central America, which evidences attempts at reforestation of the mountains. Even today here they find conditions to survive some species-relic of the forest of ever-green woody - the Laurissilva.
You can visit the Adrenunes where the layout of the rocks resembles a megalithic monument of tapus type. You will see the lighthouse of Cabo da Roca and Pedra da Ursa, Peninha, the Adraga valley and, further away, the houses of Praia das Maçãs.
In the Pedras Irmãs snack park you are again surrounded by cedars, already near the starting place of the route.
There was two additions to the original trail, right in the beginning to see a few fountains and wild horses. After we visited Peninha we did a detour and went to a lake near by.
Waypoints
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1,483 ft
Panorama
Fountain
Monument
Tree
Intersection
Lake
Picnic
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