Minde works well as a base: 5 minutes from Mira, 34km from Nazare.
Minde is in Santarém, Portugal, with about 3,300 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Mira, about 4 km away.
Minde (Ninhou in the Minderico language) is a town and freguesia (civil parish) of Alcanena Municipality, in the District of Santarém, in Portugal. The population of the entire civil parish in 2011 was 3,293, in an area of 21.14 km² (Censos 2011). Minde is known as the place of origin of the Minderico, a sociolect orRead more argot spoken by traders. The civil parish is located in a landscape of intensive karst. People who originate from or live in Minde are informally known as Minderico (said to have been created as a variation of Mindense (which is also correct) because, as a result of the regional development of the clothing industry, the people of Minde were considered to be wealthy (rico in Portuguese, thus Minderico). The formal and ever-used form of Minderico is Mindense.
Within an hour or so of Minde: Sanctuary of Fátima (13 km), Batalha Monastery (20 km), Convent of Christ, Tomar (25 km), Convento de Cristo, Tomar (25 km).
Are there any good drives near Minde?
The nearest famous roads are N2: Portugal's Route 66, Tram 28 Route, Lisbon and Sintra–Cascais Coast Road (N247).
Where is Minde?
Minde is in Santarém, Portugal, about 4 km from Mira.
Road trip
Drive to Minde
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
One of Catholicism's great modern pilgrimage sites, built where three shepherd children reported Marian apparitions in 1917: a vast esplanade twice the size of St Peter's Square links the 1953 basilica and the 9,000-seat Holy Trinity church.
13 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Batalha Monastery
A Gothic and Manueline masterpiece built to commemorate the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, with its famous Unfinished Chapels.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Convent of Christ, Tomar
A UNESCO-listed former Knights Templar headquarters with a remarkable blend of Romanesque, Gothic, Manueline, and Renaissance architecture.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Convento de Cristo, Tomar
A UNESCO-listed Templar monastery with a Manueline round church and the celebrated carved Chapter House window.
25 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
Alcobaça Monastery
Portugal's largest church, a UNESCO Cistercian abbey founded in 1153, holding the facing carved tombs of King Pedro I and his murdered lover Inês de Castro: placed foot-to-foot so they rise facing each other at judgement.
25 km · about 30 min drive
castle
Castelo de Almourol
A Templar castle on a rocky island in the Tagus river, reached by short ferry from a riverside car park.
27 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Nazare
A fishing town famous for producing the world's largest surfed waves, with 30-meter swells breaking at the Praia do Norte canyon.
34 km · about 40 min drive
beach
Praia do Norte, Nazaré
The beach where a submarine canyon generates record-breaking waves, overlooked by the Forte de São Miguel Arcanjo.
35 km · about 40 min drive
Driving roads near Minde
10 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
63 kmN2: Portugal's Route 66Portugal's longest road runs 738 kilometers from Chaves to Faro through the country's rural heartland and Alentejo plains.