Only in Portugal and probably in the world, was widely used in local churches and chapels. However the quarry where it was extracted was closed in the 70´s. In the present, is still used by the bodies of Setúbal in inaugural plates.

The Park presents diverse, rocky and sandy bottoms with depths up to 100 meters. With sheltered areas such as various coves at the base of coastal cliffs, to swell zones, as in Espichel. The high animal diversity can be easily observed along the rocks, where there are frequent anemones, the starfish, sea urchins sea and crustaceans. The variability of fish is also amazing, with lesser known species, because they are not fishing target, that make this marine ecosystem of the richest national and European level. Particular emphasis on marine wildlife in Stone Anicha, with the coastal bay to be an important area for the development and maintenance of marine fauna of the North Atlantic. The underwater flora also has considerable ecological importance features.

The Marine Park includes a Total Protection Area 4 km² (10% of the Park area) where it is not allowed any fishing, four Partial Protection areas with a total of 21 km² (40% of the Park area), with restrictions fishing traps and lines, part of the Portinho Arrábida and Figueirinha (about 1.8 km²), and three areas of Supplementary Protection with a total of 28 km² (50% of the Park area) where only licensed vessels can operate .

Is the only point of the Portuguese coast where nests the rare Bonelli’s Eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus)

Among the mammals include the fox (Vulpes vulpes), the weasel (Mustela nivalis), the toirão (Mustela putorius), the genet (Genetta genetta), wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), badger (Meles meles) and the likely occurrence of wildcat (Felis silvestris), the weasel and the weasel (Martes foina). The caves, especially the cliffs have associated a very particular fauna of bats: Bat-of-Teddy (Miniopterus schreibersii) bat of horseshoe-Mediterranean (Rhinolophus euryale) bat of horseshoe-large (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and bat -of horseshoe Moorish (Rhinolophus meherlyi).

Among the birds stand out Bonelli’s eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) – with the only couple nest in the Portuguese coast, the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), the eagle owl (Bubo bubo), the screech owl (Tyto alba), the swift-real (Apus melba), the blackbird, blue (Monticola solitarius) and the black redstart-(Phoenicurus ochrurus), the nightingale (Luscinia mergarhynchos), the robin and the wren (troglodytes troglodytes), Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), the hoopoe (Upupa epops), the common-partridge, lark-Tit (Galerida cristata), the nighthawk to-neck-red (Caprimulgus ruficollis) and the kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), the woodpecker spotted-large (Dendrocopus major), the tits (Parus spp.), the common-creeper (Certhia brachydactila), and the common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus).

Amphibians and reptiles, the lizard, the snake-legged pentadáctila (Chalcides bedriagai), the snake-of-ladder (Elaphe scalaris), the snake-Ratter (Malpolon monspessulanus), the Horned Viper and the snake-in -ferradura (Coluber hippocrepis). Water resources provide shelter to the turtle (Mauremys leprous) and her water snakes (Natrix spp.).

Among the thousands of species of invertebrates is included one of the few Portuguese animal species classified as Endangered Extinction of Critical by the International Union for Conservation of Nature – the cave spider Frade – Anapistula ataecina.

The fauna is diverse, although it has undergone major changes since the nineteenth century. By the early twentieth century it was still possible to see wolves, wild boar and deer. The current fauna are part of, among others, the wildcat (Felis silvestris), the fox (Vulpes vulpes), the hare (Lepus capensis), the bat, the eagle of Bonelli (Hieraetus fasciatus) the eagle owl (Bubo bubo) the partridge (Alectoriz rufus) and the actual swift (Apus melba). In 2004, as already happened, a fire destroyed a significant part of the Park, which is slowly recovering.