At Casa da Baía – Tourism Promotion Center, since June 5, 2018, the Sado Estuary Bottlenose Interpretive Center, a project by the Municipality of Setúbal, created with the support of the Ministry of the Environment, the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests and Troia Natura.

The Interpretive Center aims to increase knowledge about the cetacean community residing in the Sado and was conceived in a permanent exhibition format, with several interactive panels and tables.

Some panels present information of a scientific nature and on the natural history of the region, while a central table presents the interpretation of the territory, highlighting the most relevant natural spaces, as well as some of the species that are directly or indirectly related to the bottlenose dolphins.

Two interactive multimedia panels are also available. One of them reveals the sounds that can be heard in the natural environment, such as the vocalizations of bottlenose dolphins, but also of other species that share the habitat, such as fish, seabirds and other cetaceans that frequent the area surrounding the estuary.

In the other panel, the focus is solely on the bottlenose dolphin, proposing a guided tour through the landscapes frequented by the Sadina community, made up of about thirty individuals, namely between the Sado Estuary and the coast of Arrábida and Troia.

The Sado Estuary Bottlenose Interpretive Center also includes the skeleton of a bottlenose dolphin, exposed on an interactive table composed of a model structure, in the shape of prisms, which reveal different information of a more scientific nature about the cetacean.

The space, designed as a permanent exhibition, occupies the entire area destined for the former Casa da Baía Exhibition Gallery.

With a strong component of environmental education, the Interpretive Center is dedicated to the only resident community of dolphins in Portugal and one of the only three with this feature in all of Europe.

Admission is free and the space is open to the public every day from 09:30 am to 20:00 pm.

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The dolphin (roaz corvineiro), the Sado estuary, the inhabitants, their sounds and the environment.

Casa da Baía – Tourist Promotion Center

Avenida Luísa Todi, no. 468

Tel.: 265 545 010 | 915 174 442

email: turismo.setubal@mun-setubal.pt

It is possible to schedule guided tours of CIRES by filling out the form below.

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The personal data collected is intended for registration for a guided tour of Casa da Baía and/or CIRES - Centro Interpretativo do Roaz do Estuário do Sado, in accordance with the duties and powers conferred on the Municipalities provided for, respectively, in Article 23, paragraph 2, paragraph f) and in article 33, nº1, paragraph ff) of the Legal Regime of Local Authorities, approved by Law nº 75/2013, of September 12th. The legitimate interest of the Municipality, responsible for data processing, is to pursue the duties and powers assigned by law, 75/2013, in Article 23, paragraph 2, paragraph f).
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