Here lived and died the Roman senator Caius Julius Laurus, founder of Lourinhã.
In the 12th century, the Knights Templar, coming upon the discovery of the ancient sacred sites of the Celts, found Moita Longa and stayed here until 1312, at which point these lands passed to the crown of Portugal, in the reign of D. Dinis.
On 26th June 1493, for still more mysterious reasons, the King D. Joao II relocated himself to Moita Longa and in 1526 Gil Vicente wrote “The Temple of Apollo”, where in a clear allusion to the Arch of Moita Longa and the Knights Templar, it is stated that “the Sun was born in Lourinhã and the fevers in Tomar.”
One of the largest royal hunting forests of Portugal, Moita Longa was donated by Joao III to the judge of the commercial district of Lisbon, Andre da Silveira do Po, whose brother Gaspar de Seixas undertook the printing under licence of ‘Os Lusiadas’ by Luis Váz de Camões, disciple of Gil Vicente and relative of the squires of Moita Longa…
150,000 years separate us from the late Jurassic period, evidence of which can be witnessed from guided tours along the beaches of Lourinhã. A kind of incentive to live passionately is the Lourinhã Museum of Dinosaurs, where the largest Iberian collection of Jurassic dinosaur fossils can be found, including the oldest dinosaur embryos in the world and the second largest collection of more than one hundred dinosaur eggs.
In the 12th century, the Knights Templar, coming upon the discovery of the ancient sacred sites of the Celts, found Moita Longa and stayed here until 1312, at which point these lands passed to the crown of Portugal, in the reign of D. Dinis.
On 26th June 1493, for still more mysterious reasons, the King D. Joao II relocated himself to Moita Longa and in 1526 Gil Vicente wrote “The Temple of Apollo”, where in a clear allusion to the Arch of Moita Longa and the Knights Templar, it is stated that “the Sun was born in Lourinhã and the fevers in Tomar.”
One of the largest royal hunting forests of Portugal, Moita Longa was donated by Joao III to the judge of the commercial district of Lisbon, Andre da Silveira do Po, whose brother Gaspar de Seixas undertook the printing under licence of ‘Os Lusiadas’ by Luis Váz de Camões, disciple of Gil Vicente and relative of the squires of Moita Longa…
150,000 years separate us from the late Jurassic period, evidence of which can be witnessed from guided tours along the beaches of Lourinhã. A kind of incentive to live passionately is the Lourinhã Museum of Dinosaurs, where the largest Iberian collection of Jurassic dinosaur fossils can be found, including the oldest dinosaur embryos in the world and the second largest collection of more than one hundred dinosaur eggs.