The Royal Falconry of Salvaterra de Magos, a testament to the presence of the Portuguese court in this Ribatejo town
The Mother Church of Salvaterra de Magos, with its eighteenth-century architecture, in the town centre
The lezírias of the Tejo, a floodplain landscape of great wildlife and botanical richness
The village of Muge, beside the river of the same name, with the remains of the famous Mesolithic shell middens discovered in the nineteenth century
about the place
Salvaterra de Magos lies in the Ribatejo, on the left bank of the Tejo, across a floodplain of lezírias shaped by the river over centuries. The landscape is vast and flat, marked by water, rice fields and the constant presence of birds. The municipality became known for the Real Falcoaria, established here by the kings of Portugal who chose these plains for falconry — a tradition that lives on in the memory of the place.
