{"id":59284,"date":"2026-10-14T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59284"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:44:00","slug":"navio-museu-santo-andre","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/sv\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/center-of-portugal\/navio-museu-santo-andre\/","title":{"rendered":"Navio-Museu Santo Andr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sturdy, black-hulled and proud, the Santo Andr\u00e9 is the last of her kind: a side trawler from the Portuguese cod-fishing fleet, built in 1948, which spent half a century in the fog and ice of the North Atlantic and now rests at anchor as a museum in \u00cdlhavo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A life on the northern seas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Santo Andr\u00e9 was commissioned by the Aveiro Fishing Company and built in the Netherlands, 71 metres of river of her own \u2014 with a hold for some 1,200 tons of cod. For decades she sailed to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and the waters off Greenland, where Portuguese fishermen fished from dories in conditions few can imagine. When the fleet was cut down in the 1990s, her owners and the town of \u00cdlhavo chose memory over the scrapyard: in 2001 the old trawler reopened as the Navio-Museu Santo Andr\u00e9, a floating monument to the ‘cod heroes’. She is a partner of the \u00cdlhavo Maritime Museum and its famous cod aquarium, and stands across the lagoon from the beaches of Costa Nova<\/a> and the city of Aveiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n