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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Visit the Rail Pedrestre São Bento - Rio Caldo

The Trail of St. Benedict, of the cultural landscape and presents itself as a small footpath route (PR) has a length of approximately 10.5 kilometers, with a duration of four hours, the degree of difficulty average, with some steep slopes.
This route extends along the southwestern slope of the valley of the Rio Caldo being intercepted in two places at the section of EN 304, which connects the parishes of River and Covide broth. Its design is characterized by sites of historical, cultural, religious in nature, which arouse curiosity to hikers and visitors. The major attractions of this trail are the old furnaces for the manufacture of charcoal, called caverns, Fojo the wolf - the places of capture of the animal and the granitic rocks in the footsteps of St. Euphemia, representing traces that recall the traditions and mythologies of the parish of Rio Caldo. Fojo The wolf and the cavern are structures that demonstrate and confirm the relationship of coexistence experiential, with benefits and disadvantages, between man and certain animals, including bear and wolf.

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