Dinosaur footprints
Prehistory
Ourém
Estrada de Fátima, 2490-216 Bairro, Ourém
Terça a Domingo: 10h00 às 12h30 e das 14h00 às 18h00. No período de 21 de março a 22 de Setembro, o horário aos Sábados, Domingos e feriados prolonga-se até às 20 horas.
The Serra de Aire Dinosaur Footprints Natural Monument, better known simply as Pegadas da Serra de Aire, 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.
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