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At the southern tip of the Halifax peninsula, the park provides a fine vantage point from which to watch the big ships in the harbor and the yachts on the Northwest Arm.
The topographical highlight of the Arrábida peninsula is undoubtedly the Serra da Arrábida (site of a nature reserve), a mountain chain around 35 km (22 miles) long which protects the coast from the strong north winds and accounts for the Mediterranean vegetation.
In a.d. 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
It is also possible to dive and swim in cenotes, sinkholes found in the sub-surface limestone layer of the Yucatán peninsula, caused by millions of years of erosion.
They defeated the Carthaginians in 206 b.c. and ruled Spain for the next 600 years, a period in which Roman law, language, and culture took firm root across the peninsula.