Visit the Castle Trail Pedestrian - Santa Isabel do Monte

The Castle Trail with a pedestrian route, of 16,376 meters, reaches an elevation of 990 meters altimetric and runs with medium difficulty for natural paths, flanked by massive mountain of yellow and Gerês.Ao throughout its route presents notably, the organizational arrangements of the natural and built, coming from time medieval.Não surprisingly the natural clash with everything that appears in its place. Man here is not broke!
0 Rail Castle covers the territory of three parishes: Santa Isabel, and Chamoim Covide. 0 your track has two starting points:
Church of Santa Isabel do Monte to the Castle Hill and Place of Calvary in Covide up to Castle Hill.
Thus, walkers or visitor has two options to stroll through the Castle Trail: the first, longer, provides a direct contact with the architectural richness rural, community and traditional agro-forestry and pasture in the parish of Santa Isabel and the second , the shorter you can enjoy the natural landscape and the Castle of Covide.

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.

Visit Fraga of Chalcedon - Covide

The Fraga of Chalcedon is an ancient fortified town of the Iron Age, called Chalcedon located in Town of Covide.
Presumably the Roman occupation, this flagship location, which was created by toponym fable of some classical scholars of the century. XVI indicates a classical origin founded by the Argonauts.
This route, part of history and landscape, it develops within the parish of Covide and presents a distinct cultural-historical repertory, its community traditions and archaeological remains.
The area is dominated by the Geres granite, which has a texture made up of medium to coarse grain.
At the site of the Chalcedon Fraga and surrounding area, oak and pear-tree mark a healthy presence in the mountainous landscape.
The shrub and herb layer is characterized in a different way and with high floristic value enhancing to erica, heather, gorse-arnal, gorse-molar, the Torga, violet, thyme, foxglove, and others.

Visit the footpath of the City of Chalcedon - Covide

The footpath in the City of Chalcedon is a footpath known as short route (PR), with an actual distance of 9.3 km to go - the average time is approximately 5 hours - consisting of sloping paths, making it highly difficult .
The Trail runs through the parishes of Covide and Field Gerês, which present a plot historical-cultural landmark, its community traditions and archaeological antiquities.
This circular route, to achieve the mythical archaeological site called "Fraga City," which scholars seiscentistas immortalized with classic toponym of Chalcedon.

Visit the Church of Santa Marinha - Covide

The Church of Covide with patron saint of Santa Marinha, is constructed with about four centuries shows an altar in the Renaissance style.

Visit the village Typical Covide

The typical village of the Municipality of Covide Bouro Land is located 10 km from the seat of County and 40 kilometers from the city of Braga. Is inserted in the rural area of the Peneda-Geres (PNPG), with markedly rural and mountain, where lie the nuclei mountain, fields of culture that serve as their support and pasture land, ie places where all humans is more pronounced.
Covide has a great location landscape, environmental and tourism, can be observed throughout the surrounding of the stream of Man with its green farmland, predominantly designed in terraces, the fruit of man's adaptation to the environment in the practice of traditional agriculture, which still currently keeps a momentum predominantly oriented polyculture, for self-consumption, increasingly sought after by visitors and tourists who prefer traditional products (eg meat barrosã, kid, honey, sausages and smoked medicinal and aromatic plants) much appreciated for a niche urban consumers concerned about food quality and safety.

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.