Natural Monument of the Dinosaur Footprints

Dinosaur Footprints Natural MonumentThe Serra de Aire Dinosaur Footprints Natural Monument, better known simply as Serra de Aire Footprints, was created in 1996. The site was formerly a quarry and on July 2, 1994, Ricardo Matos da Silva, João Pedro Falcão and João Carvalho discovered the footprints that would turn the quarry into the monument it is today.

In 2002, the Jurassic Garden was created with the aim of showing visitors current plants from characteristic botanical groups in the Mesozoic, the “Age of the Dinosaurs”, and the Aramosaurus.
The 20 existing tracks are the largest and oldest sauropod tracks known (175 million years old), but also the best preserved, comprising more than 1,000 footprints.