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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Visit the Serra da Gardunha - São Vicenta da Beira

Serra da Gardunha is a mountain range in mainland Portugal, 20 km long, 10 km wide and 1227 meters high. It is located in the province of Beira Baixa, in the municipalities of Fundão and Castelo Branco where it covers the parish of São Vicente da Beira.
Several decades ago the dominant production was chestnut, but in the 1930s, a disease attacked most of the soutos, on the southern slope, in the parish of São Vicente da Beira there are still some chestnut Soutos, not as extensive as before. that still produce a significant amount of nuts. Forestry includes pine and more recently eucalyptus. There are two natural spring water explorations, in São Vicente da Beira with Águas Fonte da Fraga and in Castelo Novo with Águas do Alardo.

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Visit the Serra da Gardunha - Louriçal do Campo

The Serra da Gardunha is a mountain range of Continental Portugal, 20 km long, 10 km wide and 1227 meters high. It is located in the municipalities of Fundão and Castelo Branco, and in the latter it includes an area of the Parish of Louriçal do Campo.

Monday, July 8, 2019

Visit the Pedestrian Route of the Marateca Route - Louriçal do Campo

The Pedestrian Route of the Marateca Route takes place between the village of Soalheira, in the county of Fundão, and the northern banks of the Santa Águeda Dam in the parish of Louriçal do Campo, Castelo Branco municipality. Marateca is named after one of the main farms of the rural landscape situated on the edge of the dam.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Visit Castelo Branco

Castelo Branco is a Portuguese city, capital of the district and, located in the statistical region of the Center, in the sub-region of Beira Baixa, with about 34,000 inhabitants in its urban perimeter.

It is home to the third largest Portuguese municipality, with 1 438.19 km² of area and 56 109 inhabitants, subdivided into 25 parishes. The municipality is bordered to the north by the municipality of Fundão, to the east by Idanha-a-Nova, to the south by Spain, to the southwest by Vila Velha de Ródão and to the west by Proença-a-Nova and Oleiros.

Unlike other cities in the region, which grew notably due to the textile industry, Castelo Branco has always had a geostrategic and political importance in Portugal. It is not, therefore, subject to the economic fluctuations that have displaced textile companies - especially manual labor disqualified - as happened in the northern region and Cova da Beira. The predominant sociological composition is therefore also very different from other cities of the working class culture.

Castelo Branco will have had its origin in the place of a pre-Roman castro. At the beginning of the 12th century there was a village at the top of the Cardina Hill, on whose slope the settlement of the village developed.

The city was initially built at the top and on the adjacent slope of Monte da Cardosa, but grew up and nowadays rises mainly in the adjacent flat areas. Yet the city lies 384 meters above sea level and the castle at 490 meters. At the opposite extreme rises the Monte de São Martinho, a quartzite formation that constitutes an important archaeological center. The soil is mostly of the granite type, of which example is a rocky outcrop known as barrocal south of the city.

At the hydrographic level there are two rivers that pass very close to the city, the Ponsul River to the east and the Rio Ocreza to the west that, in turn, originates the Ribeira da Líria. The area occupied by the municipality of Castelo Branco is an integral part of the river basin of the Tagus River that runs to the south forming a natural border with Spain. Both the Ponsul River and the Ocreza River are tributaries of the Tagus River and, as such, flow into it.

Climate

The climate in the municipality of Castelo Branco is temperate Mediterranean influenced by the continentality so it shows little humidity throughout the year. The location of the city, in a transitional zone between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, gives it many of the climatological properties that it presents. The average air temperature is around 15.5 ° C, reaching its minimum in January (with minimum average temperatures around 1 ° C) and an average of 7.9 ° C. At its peak in July (where the average temperature is around 25 ° C).

Precipitation is more abundant from October to January with snowfall and precipitation of showers with values above 100mm. On the other hand, in July and August, the rainfall is residual being these the driest months that the city crosses annually. In winter in January, Castelo Branco has minimum temperatures of -4 ° C, but there are records of -7 ° C sometimes with occurrence of snowfall (average of 8 cm). In this last month of January (2012) there was no snowfall due to higher than normal temperatures. In November 1954, Castelo Branco was hit by a Tornado category F3. On October 25, 2012, Castelo Branco was again hit by a Tornado, this time weaker, approximately F1 / F2 and as a consequence of this phenomenon, 5 industrial buildings and 32 cars were damaged, one of them "flew" and was projected into a ravine.

To visit

In the Town of Alcains

Chapel of Santa Apolónia

St. Peter's Chapel

Chapel of the Holy Spirit

cruise

António Trigueiros de Aragão Stadium

Alcains Municipal Pool

Vacation Specials

Solar dos Viscondes de Oleiros

In the parish of Almaceda

Typical village of Martim Branco

Martim White Shale Path

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Visit the Church of Valverde

The Church of Valverde has been built in the century. Eighteenth and most probably based on another century and earlier. XIII
The Church imposed by its harmony, and stands the baptismal font, which is based on four heads of animals that looms in the buck.
Beside the church is an elegant bell tower, typically separated from the church for having been built later, and right in front of a cruise that bears at its base a elucidating date - 1777 - reveal that perhaps the year ended construction of the church.

Visit the Church of Cork - Vale dos Prazeres

The Church of cork, located in the Town of Valley of Pleasure, is a stone building with a bell at the top center of the facade.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Visit Source Vale dos Prazeres

The Power of Pleasure Valley is formed by a triangle whose edges out of stone half arches.

Visit the Church of the Valley of Pleasure

Visit the Solar Castelo Branco - Vale dos Prazeres

Visit the Church of Souto da Casa

Monday, September 13, 2010

Visit the Church of Sunny

The Church of Sunny, has a bell on top of the tower located on the right side of the facade.

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady Needs - Sunny

The Chapel of Our Lady of Needs, located in the Town of Sunny, is a collection of votive paintings that testify to the miracles attributed to Our Lady of the requirements already in 1685.

Visit the Chapel of St. Sebastian - Sunny

Visit the Sanctuary of Santa Luzia and Santa Eufemia - Silvares

The Sanctuary of Santa Luzia and Santa Eufemia, located in the Town of Silver is composed of a set of images that are distributed in different levels of the central staircase of 143 steps.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Visit the Fountain of Adro - Silvares

The Fountain of Adro, located in the Town of Silver is composed of two pipes in the facade and has a panel of tiles.

Visit the Chapel of St. Anthony - Willow

Visit the Ponte Romana de Pero Viseu

Ponte Romana de Pero Viseu, which connects the parishes of Pero Viseu and Valverde on the Ribeira da Meimoa, consists of three round arches, with the middle one larger and Talhami, both with granite ashlars, equipped and arranged so that there is a discharge of balanced forces. The rails are made of granite so ashlars paralelipédica. The deck of the bridge lets see some slabs of medium size, belonging to the primitive road.

Visit the Church of Pero Viseu

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Visit the Cruise Pero Viseu

Visit the Chapel of the Holy Spirit - Pero Viseu

The Chapel of the Holy Spirit, located in the parish of Pero Viseu, have been built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Chapel has a longitudinal plan consists of nave, chancel narrow and low. Packages available in horizontal articulated, with coverage of two different waters. Elevations plastered and painted white. Main facade facing west with a prominent basement that is accessed by stairs. In the center, has pointed arched portal and imposed protruding door with two leaves, flanked by two wickets with railings frame. On the left side of the main door, there is a pulpit supported on a granite column granite and wrought iron guard. Corners surmounted by pinnacles and shot with the gabled cross on plinth. South facade with a crack in the volume of the chancel. Shot in front of the eaves. East and north facades are blind with finial and gable overhang, respectively.