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Salt Pans 🌊 Fuseta – Old/Roman Bridge 🌉 Tavira loop from Olhão

Salt Pans 🌊 Fuseta – Old/Roman Bridge 🌉 Tavira loop from Olhão

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4.5

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Salt Pans 🌊 Fuseta – Old/Roman Bridge 🌉 Tavira loop from Olhão

03:19

58.1km

280m

Gravel riding

Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 26, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

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Parque Natural da Ria Formosa

Ria Formosa-Castro Marim

Zona de Proteção Especial da Ria Formosa

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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6.72 km

Ria Formosa Special Protection Area

Nature Reserve

8.17 km

Wooden boardwalk in Ria Formosa Natural Park

Highlight • Trail

A very well-developed cycle path with the following destinations:

Olhão is a city in Portugal with 14,206 inhabitants (as of April 19, 2021). Olhão is located in the so-called Sand Algarve, the Sotavento. This is the name given to the region that stretches between Faro Airport and the Spanish border in eastern Portugal.

Among the numerous architectural monuments are a number of historic public buildings, various social housing blocks from the Estado Novo regime, the 17th-century fortress, and two Baroque parish churches. The historic town center as a whole is also a protected monument, and a tidal mill can be visited just outside the city.

The Ria Formosa Natural Park is a nature park surrounding a lagoon in the southern Portuguese Algarve. With a protected area of 170 km², the lagoon is one of the largest lagoonal nature reserves in Europe. The lagoon itself covers 83.5 km².

Fuseta, also known as Fuzeta, is a town and former municipality on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal. The German author Holger Karsten Schmidt, writing under the pseudonym Gil Ribeiro, created a crime series set here.

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8.71 km

Ecovía do litoral 🚴 Fuseta - Olhão

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Well-maintained gravel trail along the coastal wetlands

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13.8 km

Salt Pans 🌊 Fuseta

Highlight • Natural

The EcoVia do Litoral is a mostly well-maintained gravel trail following the coast, here weaving on beautiful narrow dams trough the lagoons and wetlands in the former salines, and some remaining operational salt works. The area is protected by the Parque Natural Da Ria Formosa. In fall and winter the rosy flamingos are an amazing sight.

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14.5 km

Salt Pans of the Ria Formosa Natural Park

Highlight • Structure

Very large areas for sea salt production. Very good air.

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17.2 km

EcoVia do Litoral 🚴 Flor de Sal Salt Pans

Highlight • Cycleway

The EcoVia following the coast is mostly well-maintained gravel, here passing through the Parque Natural Da Ria Formosa, protecting the wetlands in the former salines, and some remaining operational salt works.

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17.2 km

Ribeira dos Mosqueiros 🌉 Ecovía do Litoral

Highlight • Trail

Wooden boardwalks and bridges guide the excellent gravel trail across the coastal wetlands and river estuaries.

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28.3 km

Old/Roman Bridge 🌉 Tavira

Highlight • Bridge

Despite its name, the bridge itself is neither Roman nor has a Roman origin. It was built when Tavira belonged to al-Andalus (the Islamic Domain of Iberia), most probably in the 2nd half of the 12th century. Then, for a few decades Tavira was an independent commune, before being submitted to the Almohade Empire.
The bridge was a fundamental element of the medieval defence of Tavira and its associated main road, limited with towers in both sides. It had houses on it in the Middle Ages. By 1550 it had apparently a movable wooden floor which could be removed for security reasons. The old bridge collapsed in 1655, then completely rebuilt in its present form. tavira.algarvetouristguide.com/attractions/the-old-roman-bridge

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39.4 km

Coastal tower 🏰 Luz de Tavira

Highlight • Castle

In Roman times this was an important port. Therefore, a fortress tower called Torre Aires was built so that the port city could be protected from here.

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58.1 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

22.6 km

18.4 km

8.77 km

6.07 km

2.03 km

283 m

Surfaces

24.9 km

15.5 km

9.26 km

7.48 km

1.07 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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