Urbex Portugal
Discover Portugal through abandoned places!

Urban exploration, or "urbex" for short, is an activity that consists of visiting places built and abandoned by man. In Portugal, many properties are abandoned, around 14% of all dwellings in the country - 700,000 dwellings, to be precise. To this must be added industrial, commercial or military buildings, which are also abandoned.

Many people are interested in Urbex; we can estimate that the movement began in San Francisco in the 1970s with a club of enthusiasts called "The Suicide Club". Visiting ruins, underground passages, refuges, but also castles, houses, buildings and even abandoned towns or villages is an activity of great interest to our adventurers with a thirst for history and discovery. The profile of Urbex explorers is quite varied: mainly photography enthusiasts, but also history buffs, nostalgic for the past or simply tourists who take pleasure in discovering atypical and unique places that have unfortunately been abandoned by their owners.

This practice has become well-known thanks to the emergence of social media, but unfortunately it is not always practiced legally. In some countries it is highly regulated and supervised, and events are even organized in its honour, such as OPEX in Canada.

The Urbexeur code of ethics implies leaving no trace of your passage: visit without touching, without degrading and without taking anything away. Unfortunately, not everyone shares this philosophy and many abandoned buildings are dilapidated and/or looted...

DE BRITO Properties is therefore developing a communication campaign through networks with the general public to raise awareness of this issue.

Our agency participates in heritage protection thanks to its agents located throughout the country who set out to conquer and discover lost or abandoned properties in order to identify, evaluate and promote them to our international clients. 
 

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