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Dona Paterna | Monção e Melgaço
The Dona Paterna brand, created in 1990, is intertwined with the entrepreneurial nature of Carlos Codesso, one of the pioneers in planting continuous vineyards of the Alvarinho variety in Melgaço. The name is intrinsically associated with Quinta da Carvalheira, located in...
Dom Ponciano | Monção and Melgaço
Don Ponciano is an appellation associated with the slopes of Paderne, in the territory of Melgaço. But Don Ponciano is also a leitmotif that allows us to travel deep into history, all the way back to the founding of Portugal. It is a tribute to Ponciano de Abreu, son of José Joaquim...
CityNature | Wear
Be a Transformative Mind is the motto of We Want Green. It's a slogan that projects forward, that stimulates the imagination, that believes in the future as a malleable and open possibility. With the "Slow Tourism" strand we seek to explore...
Little Sprouts | Monção & Melgaço
Pequenos Rebentos is a designation created by Márcio Lopes, a curious and talented winemaker. A "researcher and an experimentalist", says Nuno Guedes Vaz Pires from Revista de Vinhos. "One of Portugal's most ingenious wine creators," says Fernando Melo of...
Encosta da Capela | Monção and Melgaço
Encosta da Capela is a wine designation from the territory of Monção and Melgaço, in the Vinhos Verdes sub-region. It is the product of a decades-long family history that consisted of the progressive conversion of land dedicated to growing corn and vines, a...
Fishing grounds of the River Minho | Heritage for the Future
The fishing grounds of the River Minho are a precious treasure, due to their ingenuity, antiquity and the survival support they have represented for centuries. Between Monção and Melgaço, on a 37-kilometre stretch where the waters are wilder, there are around 900 fishing grounds....
Quinta das Alvaianas | Monção e Melgaço
Quinta das Alvaianas is located in Melgaço, in the wine sub-region of Monção and Melgaço, the territory par excellence of the precious Alvarinho grape variety. It's a project created by José Rodrigues, who planted the first vines in 1996 and four years later began...
Sistelo, cultural landscape and national monument
Sistelo, in the municipality of Arcos de Valdevez, is a village as remote as it is special. It is a Cultural Landscape and National Monument, a sanctuary of biodiversity, a luxuriant garden on the slopes of the crystal-clear and inspiring River Vez. The best way to discover this place...
Quinta de Soalheiro | Monção e Melgaço
Quinta de Soalheiro is one of the most glittering emblems of the Monção and Melgaço wine region. Located in Valadares, Melgaço, in the heart of the countryside, it has been able to grow and innovate without ever losing its family character and ties to its origins. And this has made all the...
Live Love Ride - Portugal Bike Tours
In Slow Tourism Portugal we don't just want to give visibility to the experiences we promote and carry out in our area of action, the Minho Highlands. We also want to write about projects that carry out activities in other parts of the country, with the...
Highlands | Peneda Gerês National Park
From the Minho River Valley, Monção or Melgaço to the Peneda Gerês National Park, the distance is less than nothing, such is the splendour of the landscape along the way. And that's why it's important to include a stop to contemplate the villages of the Mouro Valley. It's inexcusable not to...
Minho River fishing grounds
The Minho River, a cross-border river that rises in the Meira mountain range in Galicia and establishes the border between Portugal and Spain from Melgaço to Caminha. An inspiring river, steeped in culture and history, where we find those ancestral relics that are the fishing grounds, in...
