Slowing Down to Discover Local Culture, Landscape, and Time
Between accelerated time and lived time Underlying the concept of Slow Tourism is the conscious slowing down of time and pace in a world that tends towards vertigo and continuous acceleration. This slowness, however, is far from meaning boredom or inertia....
Between Stone, Rural Memory and Mountain Time
The whisper of history On this morning of inaugural clarity, high up among the ruins of the castle, we sensed the slow breathing of history in the murmur of the wind. With our eyes still trembling with amazement, we realised that this is not just a place to see, but to...
The mountain as the first impact
Castro Laboreiro: Arriving is already beginning It's best to enter this route at once, for the first impact - for what you feel when you arrive at the starting point. On a magnificent summer's day, what happens is a sudden rush of wonder: the...
