• Casa da Cal visitor center has the toilets, a farm shop and an exhibition on the park's nature and history, open 10am to 5pm in winter and to 6pm April to September
• No cars past the parking lot, so the trails are safe for kids on bikes, and bikes can be rented in person at Casa da Cal
• Wild animals keep their distance: walk quietly to spot buzzards, wild rabbits, red-legged partridges and herons

Quinta do Pisão is a 380-hectare nature park inside the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, with meadows, woodland and farm fields crossed by walking and cycling trails.

Kids can meet woolly Miranda donkeys (a rare Portuguese breed), Sorraia horses and Campaniça sheep, ride a donkey on a booked outing, and pick vegetables at the organic farm garden. The Casa da Cal visitor center has toilets, exhibits and a farm shop.