Visit the Trail Geira - Chorense

The Trail Geira, a small footpath route (PR), part of history and landscape, has a length of 9.5 km, with a duration of four hours, and the average degree of difficulty. This route stretches along the paths of agricultural parishes Chorense and Balance, which contain both historical remains high tourist and cultural interest. This interest stems mainly from the existence of marks of Roman activity, the Geira and Miles: The Town of Chorense goes up for miles along the riverside of seventeenth hut, XVIII Mutatio Saliniana in Chaos Vilar. The set of milestones together in those miles Patent epigraphy to honor the emperors of the time.

The interest in the same region can obviously extend to the architectural environment of the typical villages of granite, which retain a rural atmosphere very welcoming, and the physical and natural environment that is easily noticeable in many places the trail.

Visit the Church of Santa Marinha - Chorense

The church of Santa Marinha, the Town of Chorense presents the main doorway the date 1770. The main altar and four side altars are in gilt, built in the style of the Renaissance. The ceiling of this place is decorated with religious paintings.

Visit the Chapel of S. Sebastian's Geira - Chorense

The Chapel of St. Sebastian's located in the Town of Geira Chorense, is dated 1687. Every year a festival is held in honor of St. Sebastian on the first Sunday following the day on August 15. Along the base of the supporting wall of the chapel becomes Geira Via XVII, linking Braga to Astorga.

Visit the Trail Geira Romana in St. John's Balance

The Trail Geira, a small footpath route (PR), part of history and landscape, has a length of 9.5 km, with a duration of 4 hours, and the average degree of difficulty. This route stretches along the paths of agricultural parishes Chorense and Balance, which contain both historical remains high tourist and cultural interest. This interest stems mainly from the existence of marks of Roman activity, the Geira and Miles in the Parish of St. John's Balance are the miles: XV, the site of Bico's Cantos or Geira, XVI in place of the Teixugos Penedo.
The same region of interest extends to the architectural environment of the typical villages of granite, where there is still a rural environment and welcoming, and the physical and natural environment that is easily noticeable in many places the trail.



Fauna

In this way one can see a diversity of animals, from amphibians, reptiles, birds and livestock in their natural habitats. In areas most exposed to sunlight appear reptiles such as lizard (Lacerta schreiberi), the Bocage's wall lizard (Podarcis bocagei) and lizard-do-mato (Psammodromus algirus). Much like the snake-ratter (Malpolon monspessulanus).
Sight can be the eagle-winged-round (buteo Buteo), the crow (Corvus corone) the CIA (Emberiza cia), a robin (Carduelis cannabina) and White Wagtail (Motacilla alba).
The route of the trail crossed the Roman road, has habitats frequented by the wolf (Canis lupus), fox (Vulpes vulpes), fisher (Martes foina), squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), horse (Equus caballus).

Amphibians such as the Iberian Frog (Rana iberica), the newt-bellied orange (Triturus boscai), the Marbled Newt (Triturus marmoratus), there are places with water like ponds, streams, etc..

Flora

At the beginning and along the stretch of Roman road (Geira), topping a field of weeds typically comprising Ericaceas, Legumes and Cistaceas.

In the most waterlogged by the end of the section of Geira, appear several species, like the buttercup (Ranunculus repens) and paw (peplos Portula).

After Chaos Vilar, appear shrub species such as oaks (Quercus suber) and the herbaceous Troviscais-female (Daphne Gnidium) and honeysuckle-of-apothecaries (Lonicera periclymenum). Church of the river, there is a gallery of fine specimens of ash, willows, oaks, alders and escalheiros. Associated with tree species, there are the accompanying riparian, as the fetus Royal (Osmunda regalis) and five-in-rama (Potentilla erecta). Continuing up, as in rural villages, predominantly an agricultural environment with a tree layer implanted by man.

Returning to the Roman road looms large area of woods Atlantic, including tojais (Ulex europaeus and Ulex minor), white-Giesteira (Cytisus scoparius) and owl-eye (Tolpis barbata). By the end of the trail, the route is accompanied by the kind Daboecia Cantabrian, emerging flax (Linum biennis), sage-bastard (Teucrium scorodonia) and-the-Geres hypericum (Hypericum androsaemum.)

Visit Geira (XVIII Via Antonino di Itinerary) - Land Bouro

Via Nova known Geira XVIII or via the Itinerary of Antoninus, is a Roman Road linking two major cities in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (the former Bracara Augusta, now the city of Braga, and the ancient city of Augusta Asturica today Astorga, in Spain.) This road connected the two major cities in a journey of 215 miles, about 318 km. The Geira or Via Nova opened, probably in the late first century AD, around the year 80, under the auspices of Titus and Dominiciano. It is believed that construction of the Via Nova reinforced the Roman road network, has given most mobile armies, led a reorganization of the territory and led to increased mining activity and transition of these assets (especially the movement of the gold mines of Las Medulas, set World Heritage of Humanity).

Via Nova knows a diagonal route that links the triangle of administrative policy and road established by Augustus, with vertices in the three cities: Bracara Augusta, Lucus Augusti and Asturica Augusta.

In the Land of Bouro Geira covers the parishes of Souto, Libra, Chorense, Vilar, Charmoim, Covide, Campo do Geres and arrives finally at Portela do Homem, thence into Spanish territory.

The archaeological remains in the Land of Bouro are impressive: there are over 150 miliaris, which marked the miles on Via and gave to it, the traveler, the distance to the nearest town. In addition to the milestones in Land Bouro is possible to discern traces of Roman Bridges (on the Ribeiro da Maceira, Ribeira do Forno, Ribeiro Monsoon and Ponte de S. Miguel, Man of the River), shod with run-marks, quarries where milestones were extracted and stone blocks to build bridges. Start also to be discovered archaeological remains of small indigenous settlements or support the construction of Via, which attest to the importance of Via.