Homestays in Leiria District, Portugal

Studio fully furnished in private property inserted in a very quiet area on the edge of Wild Beach and very topical of Nazaré (Atlantic Center of Portugal). Nazaré is a Portuguese city in the district of Leiria located in the Western sub-region, in the province of Estremadura, and the Center region and has just 100 Klm from the Portuguese capital Lisbon. The city is located 118 meters above sea level, although much of it is at sea level. Offshore, the Nazaré canyon is an internationally renowned surf spot, where records for the biggest waves surfed are regularly broken. The designation of city of Nazaré was attributed in 1912 to the urban ensemble made up of the population centers of Praia, Sítio and Pederneira, with differentiated chronological and community origins, but linked together by the urban part. "praia" The beach of Nazaré is of relatively recent origin: indeed, until the seventeenth century, the sea hit the foothills of the Serra da Pederneira, covering the entire area today occupied by the beach and the houses. . The rapid geological changes that took place during that century caused the sea to recede and the area to be silted up, revealing the bay. The first references to fishing in Nazaré date back to 1643; however, it was not until the early 19th century that people began to settle on the new beach. The fishermen lived mainly in the upper parts of the city - Sítio and Pederneira - because the frequent attacks by Algerian and Moroccan pirates made the strike an insecure place. Nazaré became famous and renowned as a bathing beach around the middle of the 19th century. Fishing, processing and selling of fish were the main activities of the population for most of the twentieth century. The harshness of sea life and the constant perils have prompted many fishermen to seek new life far from their hometowns. The construction of the fishing and marina port in the 1980s changed and improved the living conditions of fishermen, who thus initiated a new phase of the city's daily life. In the 1960s, tourism