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The main attraction of the town.

Beautiful both inside and out. A must-visit if you're in the area. The hike up the mountain is a bit strenuous, so it's better to go by car or bus. Parking is free.

Bridge over the Lima

From the bridge, you have a good view of the Lima River and the city of Viana. However, the pedestrian lane (only the one downstream is open) is very narrow and not really designed for two-way traffic. In Eiffel's time, the entire upper bridge was probably intended for pedestrians and oxcarts. The railway runs one level below: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Eiffel

Ponte de Lima - Portugal's oldest town 🏠

The linguistic proximity of the "Puente Eiffel" here in Portugal and the Eifel mountain range in western Germany is no coincidence: The family of the designer – whose world-famous "Twilight of Paris" (named after its builder) is probably familiar to everyone – has German roots. The ancestors of the Eiffel Tower and bridge builder Gustave EIFFEL come from the Eifel town of Marmagen (in the Euskirchen district, North Rhine-Westphalia). The village square there – if you're interested, see the following hiking highlight https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/1830307 – is named after him.

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The ex-libris of Ponte de Lima, which together with the river that bathes the town, gave the town its name, is its bridge. In reality, it is a group formed by two bridges: a larger medieval section, which begins on the left bank and extends to the Church of Santo António da Torre Velha and also passes through it in two arches. Then, the remaining section of the Roman bridge. There are only five arches from the large arch that is on a dry bed. If you go down you will also see the foundations of the Old Tower, perhaps the first of the medieval defensive system. The Roman bridge probably dates back to the 1st century, since it was at that time that the route of one of the military roads of the former "Conventus Bracaraugustanus", which connected Braga to Astorga, was opened, in this case Via XIX, ordered to be opened by the Emperor Augustus. As regards the medieval part, although we can go back in time, at least to the reigns of D. Pedro I and D. Fernando, due to a direct connection to the construction of the walls and towers that fortified the town, a work completed in 1370 , or even D. Dinis, taking into account documentation that mentions a bridge, which could also, at that time, be made of wood, we know of its existence during the reign of D. Manuel I, more precisely in 1504, because this monarch had new paving was ordered and merlons were installed to decorate the bridge, as they were no longer justified as a defensive and military option.