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Monday, June 18, 2018

Visiting Quinta do Galgo - Pousada

Quinta do Galgo is a rural tourism farm of 12 hectares, located in the Parish of Pousada, which has about 14 buildings surrounded by farmland and picturesque hills. The manor house, Casa de Lajes, has rooms of the XV century and is believed to have been erected in the ruins of an ancient Roman village.

Visit the Ponte do Porto - Pousada

The Ponte do Porto is located on the river Cávado in the parish of Pousada, and connects the counties of Amares and Braga.
It is a medieval bridge. Its name, "port" is a word from the archaic Galician-Portuguese with the meaning of "waypoint".
The bridge, made of granite, consists of eleven unequal arches and a narrow and irregular board, two meters and eight decimals wide, between walls of fence, and one hundred and fifty meters long. It has strong thalasses upstream and eardrums leaked in the central elements.
It is classified as a National Monument in 1910.

Visit the House of Ponte do Porto - Pousada

The House of the Ponte do Porto, located in the Parish of Pousada is a rural tourism house on the bank of the river dug and next to the Roman Bridge.