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Ericeira is more famously known for the day that King Manuel II of Portugal went into exile, from the Praia dos Pescadores, after the outbreak of the 5 October 1910 revolution.

It was about 3: 00 in the afternoon of 5 October 1910, when the 20-year-old monarch, accompanied by Queen Amélie of Orleans and Queen Mother Maria Pia, arrived from Mafra.

Arriving by car, from the Republican revolution recently installed in Lisbon, the king was bound for the royal yacht D. Amélia offshore.

The details were later immortalized in 1928 by Júlio Ivo, then president of the municipal council of Mafra ( during the presidency of Sidónio Pais, who explained: "... the automobiles stopped and the Royal Family got out, they followed the Rua do Norte to the Rua de Baixo, to the narrow lane that connects the two road, almost in front of the Travessa da Estrela ... On arrival at the Rua de Baixo, the Royal Family went in the following order: at the front, the King Manuel ; followed by Maria Pia, then Amélia ... the King, who accompanied him, climbed aboard the boat using crates and baskets of fish ... the flagman signalled with his hat, and the first boat, the Bomfim, carrying the blue and white flag on the stern, followed by the rows, driving the King ... the affluence along the coast was immense.

Everyone silent, but many with tears running from their eyes ... The King was very pallid, Amélia animated, Maria Pia was overwhelmed ... The boats had hardly come alongside the yacht, when in the village there appeared, coming from Sintra, a automobile with civil revolutionaries, armed with carbines and bearing bombs, which they later indicated they were prepared to throw at the beach, if they had reached it at the time of the departure ...".