Setubal Attractions

The industrial city and district capital of Setúbal, situated on the wide estuary of the Rio Sado, is Portugal's fourth largest city and third largest port, with important fish canneries, a car assembly plant, shipyards and saltpans. The Roman town which occupied this site was founded in the fifth C. to replace the Celtic settlement of Cetobriga on the Tróia peninsula to the southeast, which was destroyed by a tidal wave.

A royal residence for a time in the 15th C., Setúbal is also the birthplace of the poet and satirical writer Manuel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805; small museum in the house where he was born in the Rua do Sao Domingo).

Townscape

Setúbal is quite attractive for an industrial city.