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Cascais
Urban Park Penedo
With 6000 m2, this urban park offers a children's playground,
maintenance circuit, community gardens and different areas
of residence and green spaces. The muddy soil made it difficult
to plant and grow roots.
Junqueiro Park
This Park with more than 6500m2, close to a train station,
it is a daily transit point for many passengers. As it is
close to a residential area, it is also widely used by residents.
The soil was in excellent condition, which was very favorable
for planting and packing all the trees.
Neighborhood 16 de Novembro
This garden is located in the center of a neighborhood and
contains a community garden. It was a garden with very little
planting and few visitors. After the plantations we can observe
a greater adhesion of citizens to the garden. The soil was
suitable for planting.
URBAN GREEN AREAS
Located to the west of the Tagus estuary, between the mountains
of Sintra and the Atlantic Ocean, the territory occupied by
the Municipality of Cascais is limited to the north by the
municipality of Sintra, to the south and to the west by the
ocean and to the east by the municipality of Oeiras.
Cascais is a Portuguese town with 206 400 inhabitants, seat
of the municipality of the same name, in the district of Lisbon,
in Greater Lisbon. The city is located in a beautiful sandy
bay on the Atlantic Ocean, 25 km west of Lisbon.
HISTORY
The Cascais area has been inhabited since prehistoric times,
as shown by some archaeological excavations. There are many
villas that bear witness to Roman times, in the first centuries
of our era. The Muslim invasion gave names to many places
in the region.
The first Portuguese king, Alfonso I, conquered the region
in 1153. Cascais was elevated to a town on June 7, 1364 by
King Pedro I. At this time the castle was also built, which
the King gave to Gomes Lourenço de Avelar. Then, King John
II ordered in 1488 the construction of a defense tower. The
Portuguese royal family spent summers in Cascais since 1870,
transforming it into an interesting place for the national
and international nobility and aristocracy.
Nowadays Cascais is a pleasant tourist site, is becoming a
popular golf destination, with more than 10 golf courses nearby.
Surfing, sailing, windsurfing, kitesurfing are also popular
in the region around Cascais, due to the favourable weather,
wind and sea conditions.
URBAN GREEN AREAS
Cascais host Nature, Historical, Thematic and Urban Parks,
united by the biodiversity that they contain and boosted as
spaces where the population and nature interact, forming part
of the natural heritage of the municipality.
Cascais' numerous and diverse green spaces and parks are ideal
for all types of outdoor activities, while providing valuable
environmental, cultural and economic services to the population.
Cascais host 3097 parcels of green spaces that total an area
of 112.8 hectares. Of these, about 82 hectares are spaces
in need of irrigation. In these spaces, urban gardens are
also integrated. Currently, there are 22 community gardens
serving 441 families and 1974 students in school gardens.
It is possible to consult the tree
species guide.
In the guide we fin for example the tree Prunus cerasifera
typical from the place.
There is also the possibility to experience it close, taking
the Cascais Tree Route.
In the management of Green Spaces in the Municipality, the
concern with the environmental and economic sustainability
of the resources used has been a reality for a long time,
namely in the application of good practices for the management
of irrigation water, both in the design phase of green areas
and during subsequent maintenance. Combating pests and tree
diseases is another concern in the management of Cascais'
green spaces.
The production of plants used in new stands and replanting
in green spaces is mostly done locally, in the municipality
of Cascais. Cascais Ambiente has established a partnership
with CERCICA (Cooperative of Education and Rehabilitation
of Disabled Citizens of Cascais) in order to contribute to
the social integration of young people with special needs.
Through this protocol, CERCICA supplies shrub and herbaceous
plants and the young people of the institution maintain some
green spaces.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Cascais has many inicitives to tackle Climate Change, below
some of them are explained:
• The AdaptCascais fund was created with
the aim of transforming ideas into actions that contribute
to adaptation to climate change and is part of the Cascais
Climate Change Action Plan (PA3C2).
• Urban green spaces resilient to climate change.
The Cascais Ambiente project, supported by the Environmental
Fund, contemplates the creation of two multifunctional green
spaces. The action consists of implementing green spaces that
test new solutions that require less resources (water and
soil), value native species and ecosystem services.
• The Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change
- Cascais 2030, presented on September 15, 2017,
identifies 13 measures that comprise a total of 80 actions
to be implemented in the municipality, and that will have
an immediate impact on the safety of people and goods. It
was based on a long consultative process to citizens and technicians
from different institutions for signalling priorities in the
projects and actions to be implemented. The document follows
the methodological principles of the IPCC (United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), so it will be
one of the first internationally to comply with the guidelines
of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (inparticular of
objective 13: Climate Action).
• Plan for Climate Change is a project that
analyses, for the municipality and for the next century, the
potential impacts caused by climate change in different sectors,
and the possible action strategies to deal with this issue.
Quinta de São Gonçalo - Equipped Green
The Quinta de São Gonçalo park is an Equipped Green Park in
Cascais, characterized by different tree species such as Populus
Alba, Araucaria Heterophylla, Catalpa Bignoides and Pinus
Pinea.
Outeiro da Vela - Urban Park
The Outeiro da Vela is an Urban Park in Cascais, characterized
by different tree species such as Pinus Nigra, Pinus Pinea
and Robinia Pseudoacacia.
Museu da Música Portuguesa - Historic Green Park
The Museu da Música Portuguesa is an Historic Green Park in
Cascais, characterized by different tree species such as Pinus
Pinaster and Quercus Robur.
Bairro PER Trajouce - Equipped Green Park
The Bairro PER Trajouce is an Equipped Green Park in Cascais,
characterized by different tree species such as Populus Nigra,
Fraxinus Angustifolia, Cupressus Sempervirens and Phoenix
Canariensis.
Escola Velha Bicesse - School Park
The Escola Velha de Bicesse is a School Park in Cascais, characterized
by different tree species such as Acer Negundo, Acer Platanoide,
Populus Nigra and Jacaranda Mimosifolia.
Marechal Carmona Park - Botanical Garden
Marechal Carmona Park is a Botanical Graden in Cascais with
almost 7 Ha, characterized by different tree species such
as Aucaria Heterophylla, Cupressus Sempervirens and Olea Europea.
Vale de Cavalos - Nursery
Vale de Cavalos Park is a Nursery with 2 Ha, and it’s responsible
for the production, management and maintenance of most of
the plant material planted in the green areas of Cascais.
Quinta do Pisão - Nature Trail
Quinta do Pisão is a 38 ha nature park that has been re-qualified
by the Cascais City Council, allowing visitors a multiplicity
of experiences with nature and ancestral habits linked to
the land. In this unique park there is space for history,
nature conservation, agricultural activity, preservation of
biodiversity, art, education and environmental volunteering.
Alameda da Guia - Tree Alley and Street Tree
The Alameda da Guia is a Tree Alley and Street Tree in Cascais
with almost 3 Ha, characterized by different tree species
such as Acer Platanoides and Acer Pseudoplatanus.
Cemitério de Trajouce - Cemetery
The Cemetery of Trajouce in Cascais have almost 4 Ha, The
flora of this area is typical of sacred place, so evergreen.
The heart of the Urban Climate Green Asset Strategy is to
ensure that the city has a healthy, diverse tree stock that
can best contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change
and in particular of the Urban Heat Island. In that context,
LIFECLIVUT has monitored the trees of 10 Urban green areas
in Cascais.
The census nowadays covers 1065 trees of which the species,
health status, canopy coverage, and biodiversity index of
these areas were detected, in addition to the absorption parameters
of CO2 and PM10.(types of greenery and tree balance).
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