Visit the Typical Village of Azinheira - Benquerenças

The typical village of Azinheira, located in the parish of Benquerenças, consists of a small house of small size, mostly in ruins, of one or two floors, predominantly the construction in shale. The houses are distributed along two paths that cross north and east-west. The landscape around the village is composed essentially of pines, holm oaks, birches, olive trees and holly trees. There is a close relationship that architecture maintains with the natural environment, which is mainly responsible for the supply of raw materials that served to build the buildings.
The materials used in the roofs are the straw roof tile, the schist slabs and the stem, and shale was also used in the construction of walls and in the walls of the dwellings. In the elaboration of the walls were also used rolled stones that appear interspersed with blocks of shale arranged horizontally, which were then mortared with red clay collected in the place.
The facades usually have an access door and one, or more windows.
In the interiors of some dwellings, usually in low light, the common room with a nook to the fireplace area where it was cooked on the floor stood out. Aldeia da Azinheira, like so many others in the area of ​​Beira Baixa, was marked by a life with a great sense of community, still remaining vestiges of elements very important for the subsistence of the population that once lived here like the well, the source and the oven.

Visit the Shale Path of Martim Branco - Almaceda

The stunning Martim Branco Shale Path, located in the Feast of Almaceda, has two variants. The main, and longer, crosses the village to get into paths and forest paths that cross dams, streams and a deeply rural agricultural landscape.
The course begins in the Martim Branco Shale Village, crosses the stream and, taking the paths that cross the floodplain, it is possible to follow along the levadas contemplating a weir and mixtures of olive groves, medronhal and azinhal.
Further on, it crosses the stream on the Volta bridge again, entering a new track that accompanies a levada coming from a top weir.
Climb the Levada Nova to your weir where a path leads to a forest path. In Porto da Vila, the riparian corridor of the stream of Almaceda appears. You will cross the stream in a few poldras, which leads to the forest trail to the village of Almaceda.
The shorter variant leads to the water mills passing through the old milling core. After crossing the bridge of the Volta, it crosses the "Levada dos Moinhos" passing through the old milling nucleus towards Martim Branco.

Visit the Martim Branco White Shale Village - Almaceda

Martim Branco is a small village, located in the parish of Almaceda and situated between penedias of schist and quartz. The village develops from two longitudinal paths having a longitudinal configuration. One of these streets runs parallel and closer to the Ribeira de Almaceda.
It presents itself as a rural settlement where buildings destined for housing, haystacks, community ovens and dams, stand out for their modest layout architecture and with an interesting particularity: the fact that in the materials used predominate, without adulterations in most cases, the shale and mud. The predominant building material is shale.

Visit the Typical Village of Rio de Onor

The village of Rio de Onor is inserted in the Natural Park of Montesinho being crossed by the border with Spain. On one side, Rio de Onor, on the other, Rihonor de Castilla. This community village is one of the best preserved of the Natural Park of Montesinho, with typical houses shale serranas in porch with balconies porches, very well recovered. The raian village is crossed by the river Onor, also known as Contensa river, and its river beach invites moments of rest, next to the clear waters of the river!
In Rio de Onor, discover the Roman Bridge, the Mother Church, the oven, the forge and the community mills.
The typical handicraft of the village includes pieces of basketry and carpentry and in the gastronomy the tasty sausages stand out. Of the ancestor traditions of Rio de Onor, mention should be made of the "rionorês", a dialect that was born from the mixture of Castilian and Portuguese and which is still spoken today in the village; and the Feast of the Kings (January 6), a rite of puberty in which single boys participate.

Visit the Typical Village of Guadramil - Rio de Onor

Guadramil is a typical Transmontana village located in the parish of Rio de Onor.
It is a communal village in the Natural Park of Montesinho, which maintains the houses of typical moth and a dialect almost extinct called Guadramilês.
It borders two Spanish villages, Riomanzanas and Santa Cruz de Los Cuerragos and with three Portuguese villages: Rio de Onor, Deilão and Petisqueira.
The relief is quite uneven. Wildlife consists mainly of corsos, wild boars, foxes, rabbits, hares, wolves, partridges, blackbirds, starlings, goldfinches, lizards and snakes.
This village was for many years a communal village, where its inhabitants divided the mill, the forge, the herd and some agricultural tasks. At present, it is inhabited by about thirty people

Visit the Typical Village of Gondesende

Gondesende is a village and parish of the county of Bragança, with 12.94 km ² of area and 194 inhabitants

Visit the Typical Village of Montesinho - France

The village of Montesinho, located in the parish of France, is a typical Transmontana village, located on the foothills of the Sierra de Montesinho, at about 1000 meters altitude, in the Natural Park of Montesinho.

Visit the Village Typical Cuada - Faja Grande

Visit the Village Typical hutch - Varziela

A Typical Village of the hutch, located in the Town of Varziela, is a village of granite houses, located near the peak Caramulinho, is the highest village of Oliveira de Frades.

Visit the Village Typical Keen

Desirous of the typical village living from agriculture, especially grapes. A good wine lover is delighted to visit they will taste the wine and treated.
This village still has a community life. It also produces olive oil, potatoes, cereal rye and wheat. There is a blacksmith in the village and two beekeepers. Those who visit Eager has the opportunity to return home with proof of pure honey.
To highlight the existence in this village, women lace with its world renowned lace.

Visit a typical village of Raia Soutelinho

The village of Raia Soutelinho is a typical village houses transmontana granite, located 18 km northwest of the city of Chaves. Ray calls it because it was developed on the border between Portugal and Spain.

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Visit the Village Typical Adães - Santa Leocadia (Chaves)

Adães The Village, located in the Parish of Santa Leocadia (Keys), is more of a mountain villages facing the agriculture and livestock, old, abandoned house with a lot, but like most, a rural village with traditional houses interesting .

Visit a typical village of Santa Leocadia (Chaves)

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Visit the Village Typical Calvão

The typical village of Calvão is a must see to appreciate not only the typical houses and rural granite stone and wood that grows along its several streets with the warmth of the mountainside.

Visitar a Aldeia Típica de Rebordondo - Anelhe

Visit the Viewpoint of Azenhas Sea - Colares

The Lookout Azenhas Sea, located in the Town of Colares, is built on cliffs that descend to the ocean. It is a place much frequented by the grandeur of the view it provides. There, one can see the Atlantic Ocean in all its splendor.

On the right, one sees the village of the watermills of the Sea, composed of small white houses, trimmed in blue, as if carved into rocks.

Visit the Village Typical Azenhas Sea - Colares

The village of Azenhas Sea is located in the Town of Necklaces along a stream that flows into the Atlantic Ocean and the cliffs of the shore break, and where there were water mills, has an ocean pool at the base.

Apart from the picturesque natural landscape, there are several buildings in Azenhas of interest, particularly in Portuguese Style Smooth.