Pia do Urso Sensorial Eco Park Fatima|Batalha|Portugal HD

The Pia do Urso is a space that has been rehabilitated, being built a theme park and sensory (adapted to blind), accompanied by a pedestrian circuit. Besides the attractive landscape and the surrounding calm, the park is composed of several interactive and playful stations.

Thus, it is a great place to spend an afternoon, a day or even live there for a while, because it will be possible to rent old houses that have also been rebuilt.

Along the route you can observe several geological formations - the so-called "sinks" - where, in the past, bears drank water; Hence the origin of the name of this place: Pia do Urso.

Here, the Sensory Eco-Park of the Pia do Urso was installed for the blind, constituting an innovative concept that intends to take to these people the possibility of apprehending the environment around them, using for that purpose the other senses, particularly the touch and The smell.

Located at a crossroads of Roman roads, which were linked to Olissipo (Lisbon) and Collipo (Batalha / Leiria), here passed in 1385 the armies headed by D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, from Ourém on their way to Aljubarrota and, Five hundred years later, the invading troops of Napoleon Bonaparte who left a trail of destruction and death.

The place of the Pia do Urso is prodigal in legends among which it is emphasized that it tries to explain the origin of the place-name, according to which, in times backwards, a bear that lived in those mountains was in habit to go to drink to a sink originated from the formation Rocky site and still marked today.

Although the explanation is not found historically based, there is always something true in the legendary description, being sure that having the bear once inhabited our country, the species only came to be extinct around the eighteenth century, only surviving in the Iberian Peninsula some In the region of Asturias.