The Peneda Gerês Great Route (GR50) is one of the largest walking routes in Portugal. It takes place entirely in mountainous areas and is a route full of sensory attractions, heritage legacies and marks of ancestral rural culture. In its...

Inland, remote, inspiring landscapes, cultural singularities, traces of ancient history and many tales of life in the past. That's what we have to offer with this full-day experience in the Castro Laboreiro area, in the heart of...

We Want Green promotes slow-paced discovery at the pace of another time, in the far north-west of the country, on the border with Galicia. Join us and explore this corner of the country deeply moulded by rurality. And discover imposing mountains, serene forests,...

Cultural landscape, natural beauty, world biosphere reserve and hillside villages. The cycle of maize and bread in a projection shown at the Casa do Castelo in Sistelo, which highlights the terraced land, the hard and painstaking work, the...

Monção & Melgaço, in the Minho Valley, is the most exciting of the Vinho Verde sub-regions. Come and discover this fascinating wine-growing landscape, broken up into small plots, where the emblematic Alvarinho grape variety is a dominant presence. And enrich yourself with the history...

Underlying the concept of Slow Tourism is the slow pace and deceleration of time, when everything tends towards vertigo and acceleration. But the slowness it embodies is the exact opposite of boredom. In fact, it's meant to be an alternative to the rush of travelling...

On this morning of inaugural clarity, high up among the ruins of the castle, our eyes flickering with amazement, we sensed the slow breathing of history in the murmur of the wind. And we feel it palpitate as we run our hands over the stones that make up what remains of the...

It's best to jump right into the text, because of the first impact when you arrive at the starting point of this route. And what happens, on a magnificent summer's day like this one, is a rush of pure wonder: the mountains cut out in the clear sky, the veils of shadows...

The Peneda trail is one of the most exciting walking routes in our region. It starts and finishes near the sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Peneda and is just under 9 kilometres long, requiring sturdy legs This morning the sky is thinly overcast, with millimetres...

Lamas de Mouro - Peneda is the third stage of the Great Peneda Gêres Route (GR50). It's around 8 kilometres of pure sensory dazzle and complete psychic soothing. Superb therapy for those with intellectually demanding and permanently connected working lives....

We got back on the trail, passed a small branda, a fresh forest, herds of cattle, risky horses and entered the return route. Out there, one foot after the other on the uneven stones, we watched the wide Minho Valley, the distant Galician lands, the peculiarly shaped rocky massifs and the steep slopes of the Vez, gaining fury and vertigo there.

The route starts from Branda da Aveleira, an idyllic mountain village, and crosses the still incipient River Vez to Branda do Furado. It then climbs up to the Alto Vez Glacier viewing point and continues along a track that bravely resists the advance...