The first fully electric car ferry in Portugal now connects São Jacinto (Aveiro) and Forte da Barra in Ílhavo. São Jacinto, home to the Blue Flag-awarded "house beach" of Aveiro and the Dunes Nature Reserve, belongs to the city of Aveiro. It sits across the Ria de Aveiro on a sandbar that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the lagoon and its marshlands.