Oeiras

Oeiras is a town and headquarters of a municipality situated in between Lisboa, Cascais and Sintra and offers a wide range of new attractions and sites of interest such as the Fábrica da Pólvora (a former gunpowder factory from the 16th century which has been recovered for leisure and cultural purposes), the Poets Park (a vast green space with statues of Portuguese poets and writers), the Palace of the Royal Estate at Caxias, dating from the 18th century and surrounded by wonderful gardens, the modern Marina prepared to welcome sixty ships, among other parks and gardens.
In the beginning of the 20th century the beaches in Oeiras region (and all the Cascais coastline) were very famous and well frequented, specially by the higher social classes, frequently by medical indication, since it was considered that the air and the water of these beaches had medicinal effects.
Currently the Oeiras municipality possesses one of the higher life quality rates in Portugal, being therefore a place of excellence to live in. Also several notable companies have in Oeiras’s business parks their headquarters.