{"id":59274,"date":"2026-10-14T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59274"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:41:09","slug":"ilha-do-pessegueiro","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/it\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/alentejo-region\/ilha-do-pessegueiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilha do Pessegueiro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off the Alentejo coast, a low island the shape of an upturned boat guards the entrance to a small bay. The Ilha do Pessegueiro \u2014 sung about by Rui Veloso and photographed by everyone who finds Porto Covo \u2014 is a place of fishermen’s boats, Roman ruins and seabirds, with a small fort standing watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sailors’ island<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The island’s name comes not from a peach tree but, most probably, from the Latin piscis: here stood a Roman fish-salting factory whose tanks were found along the shore and on the islet itself. Carthaginian and Roman ships sheltered in the channel, as fishing boats still do. In the 16th century, under Spanish rule, engineers began a fortified harbour that was never finished; what remains is the fort on the island and its twin on the mainland cliff, both listed, both wonderful viewpoints. The island sleeps under the protection of the South-West Alentejo and Vicentina Coast Natural Park, close to the beaches of Vila Nova de Milfontes<\/a> and the town of Sines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cosa vedere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n