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 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 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 Trail of the Mills and traditional irrigation schemes - Charmoim

The Trail of the Mills Traditional Irrigation and runs through the rural villages of Lagoa, dry and Pergoim belonging to the parish of Chamoim. Presents an extension of 9 km with a time of 4 hours and boasts a musical medium to high difficulty. The altimetry maximum of 590m will be achieved at the site of Spike, identified as a lookout, with lower elevation of 140m on the bank of River Man.


This trail leads to a rural route that gives a recognition of the usefulness and value of the old roads have fallen into disuse, such as foot paths and put the agricultural roads paved. Water lines, the grooves, wells, the irrigation and water-mills, on the whole, are authentic relics of popular architecture of ancient times.

The Trail of the Mills Traditional Irrigation and includes a small section of the Via Romana XVIII Military Itinerary of Antoninus, between miles XXI and XXII. The pavement in excellent condition, is walled granite masonry

Visit the Eagle's Trail Pedestrian Sarilhão

The Trail of the Eagle Sarilhão, is located in the town of Campo do Geres. This small footpath route, historical and cultural context, has a length of 9 km, about 3 hours in length and has a medium degree of difficulty.
Traverses land flattened a broad valley, through which the Ribeiro de Rodas, among the Ethnographic Museum and the left bank of Bayou Vilarinho das Furnas, this being its northern end. Runs through the rural settlements of this ancient village and reveals, among the narrow row of houses, the houses and granaries with their crosses summits with woodwork and balconies open to the usual street.
Legacy assets are highlights, with distinction, Via Nova XVIII (Geira), passing through miles XXVII, XXVIII and XXIX and the core of Roman standards. Nearby mile XXIX loom indelible traces of the trench to the Field in the Middle Ages, it served to defend the streak in Portuguese hostile invasion.

Housed in a vital area of the Peneda Geres, this trail is close to other points of interest such as the cliff Sarilhão of the National Forest and the extinct village of Albergaria Community Vilarinho das Furnas.