Description of Experience
Walking as a Way of Listening
This experience unfolds in the heart of the Peneda-Gerês National Park. Marked trails of the Grande Rota are used not as routes to be completed, but as orientation supports that allow walking with time, attention and listening. The signage ensures direction; the rhythm is inward.
In a mountain environment, the walk crosses imposing granite landscapes, traces of medieval heritage and the deep marks of an ancestral rural culture shaped by isolation, climate and persistence.
Here, walking is not about arriving.
It is about being.
About dissolving into the landscape, recovering a sense of inner stillness and experiencing a broader time — one in which the world stops demanding and simply exists.
“The walking body has no history; it is only a flow of immemorial life.”
Frédéric Gros, Walking – A Philosophy
Experience details
EXPERIENCE DURATION
● A whole day lived at an unhurried pace
WAY OF EXPERIENCING
● An accompanied journey through a mountainous landscape
● A calm, mindful pace, with extended pauses for observation, listening, silence, and reading the landscape
DAY UNFOLDING
● Route following existing trails, adapted to the group’s pace and daily conditions
● Walking punctuated by moments of pause, silence, and interpretation of the territory
EXPERIENCE CONDITIONS
● Experience available from a minimum of 2 participants
MEETING POINTS
● Ponte de Lima
● Monção
● Melgaço
VALUE OF THE EXPERIENCE
• €120 per person (2 to 4 participants)
Larger groups: price upon request
— The listed rate serves as a reference; final pricing may be adjusted according to group size
WHAT IS INCLUDED
● Territory mediation, led locally
• Transport
• Civil liability and personal accident insurance
• VAT
BEFORE PARTICIPATING
● Mountain walking, following routes of approximately 7–9 km
● Moderate difficulty, including some demanding climbs and descents
● A calm, accompanied rhythm, prioritizing observation, listening, and time attuned to the territory
● Recommended: appropriate footwear and clothing for uneven terrain and mountain weather conditions
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