28/09/2026
Sunday 4th October from 12.00 lunch time! Vegan Potluck Picnic at Fontes de Estombar, Lagoa, Algarve 🌱😍
We've had this Picnic in the planning on our WhatsApp group chat for a while now. Apologies for just getting round to doing a proper Event post! Thanks to Lesley Goldie for doing the research for a location 😇
Bring vegan food to share! Usual thing can be homemade or shop bought! 🥗🥪🍕🍰🍪 Whatever you prefer, as long as it's vegan! 🌱😇 Your own drinks too.☕️🫖🧋🍹 There's Picnic benches and it looks like a lovely area! 🏞😍
Some details off the Camara Council website...
What is it ?
The Sítio das Fontes Municipal Park occupies an area of 18 ha (180,000 m2), in an area belonging to the Municipality of Lagoa.
It is a very special place because, despite its small area, we can find here a great diversity of environments representative of the Mediterranean landscape - the salt marsh, the bog, the scrubland, a small temporary lagoon, abandoned agricultural areas and the plains and watercourses.
The geological structure of Sítio das Fontes is also quite interesting and important, due to the presence of springs and proximity to the Arade River.
From a historical and cultural point of view, it stands out because traces of human activity dating back to ancient times are found there. The two watermills are the most eloquent testimonies of this human activity. The antiquity of at least one of them is documented in the “Livro do Almoxarifado de Silves”, from the 15th century, which refers to a “(...) mill of the springs where Vicente Pirez made a mill (...)”.
There are still about twenty mills along the Arade River between Portimão and Silves, almost all in poor condition or reduced to ruins, but which attest to the importance they once had for the local economy.
Thus, given its natural beauty and ecological importance, the existence of several large springs and its historical and cultural heritage, it has traditionally been used by local populations for leisure activities, celebration of festive dates, contact with nature, etc.
