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About<\/p>\n\n

Guided tours through the living landscape of our planet and our ancestors.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Mission<\/p>

Percursos pela Paisagem Viva da Arr\u00e1bida<\/p>

Visitas guiadas pelo patrim\u00f3nio espeleol\u00f3gico, geol\u00f3gico, natural e humano, proporcionando experi\u00eancias \u00edmpares pelas incr\u00edveis paisagens e transforma\u00e7\u00f5es da Arr\u00e1bida e das suas grutas ao longo dos tempos geol\u00f3gicos. Viagens pela mem\u00f3ria da passagem dos nossos antepassados no territ\u00f3rio arrabidense e pelas ra\u00edzes da nossa origem.<\/p>

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The Guide<\/p>

Rui Manuel Polido Francisco was born in Sesimbra in 1971. Speleologist, since 1999 he participates and leads explorations that lead to the discovery of dozens of caves in Arr\u00e1bida, among which, of great importance, Gruta do Frade and Gruta do Meio.<\/p>

It integrates several international expeditions, in Spain with incursions to Cantabria, in France in the regions of the Grands Causses, Alps and Ari\u00e9ge, and also, at the invitation of DAV H\u00f6hlengruppe \u2013 Frankfurt am Main, to the Austrian Alps for several years.<\/p>

In Africa, he also carries out speleological excursions in Cape Verde, being a mentor and organizing member of the Speleological Expedition \u201cAngola Subterr\u00e2nea; Planalto da Humpata 2010\u201d (by CEAE\/LPN), is part of the \u201cPaleoLeba 2019\u201d research project in Angola, supported by National Geographic, and which involved universities in Germany, Portugal and Angola.<\/p>

Participates and is a co-author in various investigations and scientific works, such as the Archaeological Charts of Sesimbra and Set\u00fabal to volcano-speleology. Over the years, he contributed enormously to the revelation of the speleological archaeological heritage of Arr\u00e1bida, discovering, for example, the oldest written document in Sesimbra, an Arab epigraphic tablet from the 16th century, one of a kind in Portugal.<\/p>

With the work \u201cArr\u00e1bida Subterr\u00e2nea\u201d, Rui Francisco reveals a new world to us, guiding us through the depths of time on a fascinating journey through the geo-history of Arr\u00e1bida and through the 90 caves that he methodically studied and documented. With the hiking trails <\/a>now available, we are guided through the long geological history of Arr\u00e1bida, inside and out and through places where the roots of humanity intersect with the life of the planet.<\/p>

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Sustainability<\/p>\n

All routes are low impact, covered on foot, with groups made up of a limited number of participants and respecting the natural spaces.<\/p>

The hiking trails of Underground Arr\u00e1bida are experiences that reconnect participants with the history of the planet and the importance of natural forces in our past existence and future subsistence, thus trying to contribute to the sustainability and coexistence of human society with the natural world.<\/p><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miss\u00e3o Percursos pela Paisagem Viva da Arr\u00e1bida Visitas guiadas pelo patrim\u00f3nio espeleol\u00f3gico, geol\u00f3gico, natural e humano, proporcionando experi\u00eancias \u00edmpares pelas incr\u00edveis paisagens e transforma\u00e7\u00f5es da Arr\u00e1bida e das suas grutas ao longo dos tempos geol\u00f3gicos. Viagens pela mem\u00f3ria da passagem dos nossos antepassados no territ\u00f3rio arrabidense e pelas ra\u00edzes da nossa origem. O Guia Rui […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrabidasubterranea.arrabida.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}