Praia da Ursa (Ursa Beach), located a few hundred meters from Cabo da Roca, in the municipality of Sintra,is considered the westernmost beach in continental Portugal. Considered as one of the most beautiful beaches in the country, it has a very complicated and dangerous access. Its name is due to the enormous rock in the shape of Ursa looking at the sky, side by side with another rock formation called Gigante, and everything derives from the legend of Ursa Beach.


The legend says that in the Ice Age there lived a bear with her children, and when the thaw began, the God all animals to flee from the coastal areas. But the bear did not want to accede to the orders of the Gods and she wanted to stay with her children because she was born there, and there she wanted to stay.

The angry gods turned the bear into the huge rock and her children into small rocks scattered around them,Forever and ever ....