Gilão River 🌊 Tavira – Convento das Bernardas loop from Pedras d'el Rei

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Portugal

Algarve

Santa Luzia

Gilão River 🌊 Tavira – Convento das Bernardas loop from Pedras d'el Rei

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Gilão River 🌊 Tavira – Convento das Bernardas loop from Pedras d'el Rei

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24.4km

120m

Mountain biking

Easy mountain bike ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 10, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 301 m for 136 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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369 m

Bridge to Praia do Barril 🏖️ Ilha de Tavira

Highlight • Bridge

Cross the foot bridge to get to the Mini-Train or to walk the 1 km hiking path leading to the beach

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955 m

Coastal EcoRoute 🚵 Pedras d'El Rei

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This as an actually bikeable section of the EcoVia do Litoral, which is a dedicated bike trail mostly without cars along the entire Algarve coast that's mainly gravel, with a …

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6.06 km

Gilão River 🌊 Tavira

Highlight • River

The wetlands trails can be explored by bike, but to cross the Rio Gilão either cross one of the historic pedestrian bridges in town or this modern coastal highway bridge. …

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18.9 km

The Convento das Bernardas transformed the former Monastery of the Cistercian Order in Tavira into housing, which housed that religious order between the 16th and 19th centuries. The rehabilitation was …

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19.1 km

Chapel of São Sebastião (St. Sebastian)

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The Hermitage of St. Sebastian in Tavira is an 18th-century Baroque chapel built on medieval foundations. It contains a unique series of paintings from 1759 depicting the life of St. …

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21.0 km

Tavira lemon orchards 🍊🍋 along the EcoVia do Litoral

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This section of the EcoVia do Litoral bike trail is a wide gravel/packed dirt farm road, running a bit above and inlands of the salt works that occupy the lower lying wetlands, prime growing conditions for citrus fruit.

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22.9 km

Santa Luzia Waterfront Promenade

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Beach promenade with view of the lagoon.

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24.4 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.13 km

8.69 km

3.73 km

2.76 km

134 m

Surfaces

12.3 km

4.15 km

3.99 km

3.27 km

639 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Today

Tuesday 3 November

24°C

11°C

0 %

Additional weather tips

Expect light wind and shifting conditions.

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Comments

September 28, 2024,Mtb loop

Interesting fact about the bridge over the river.If you look west from the the Bridge you can see the old roman bridge where a Legend starts. At the time of the Muslim occupation and Christian conquest of the kingdom of Algarve, there was a Moorish princess called Séqua and a Christian knight called Gilão. The two met and fell madly …

April 10, 2024,Mountainbike-Tour

Turn right on Rua da Canada after 200 m. We wanted to drive around the bottom, but the roads up the river don't exist. In Tavira, make sure you drive up to the Castelo. You can only get to the island of Tavira on foot. Leave your bike in front of the bridge. Now walk across the small island, about …

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