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Esposende

Apúlia Beach 🏖️ – Fão Bridge loop from Esposende

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Portugal

Braga

Esposende

Apúlia Beach 🏖️ – Fão Bridge loop from Esposende

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Apúlia Beach 🏖️ – Fão Bridge loop from Esposende

05:32

69.3km

990m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 11, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 25.1 km for 5 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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272 m

Esposende Maritime Museum ⛵

Highlight • Historical Site

It's always good to remember old times

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4.63 km

Ofir Park 🌲

Highlight • Forest

Large coastal fir forest

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6.55 km

Historic coastal windmills park 🌬️🌀 Apúlia 🏖️

Highlight • Monument

A boardwalk curves around a group of six well preserved historic coastal windmills on the dunes of Apúlia beach.

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6.84 km

Apulian Windmills

Highlight • Monument

The windmills of Apúlia, located in the parish of Apúlia, municipality of Esposende, are an iconic landscape of the northern coast of Portugal.

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7.04 km

Apúlia Beach 🏖️

Highlight • Beach

Lovely ensemble of wide sandy beach with an esplanade in front of the old castle and town. The fishing village with its beautiful boats peacefully wrapped around the old castelo.

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25.2 km

Fão Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Metal bridge from 1892 over the river Cávado. Before its construction, locals and pilgrims had to cross on the Barca do Lago.

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28.7 km

Rio Cávado

Lake

64.4 km

Church of Santa Maria dos Anjos (Esposende Parish Church)

Highlight • Religious Site

The main church of Esposende, dedicated to Santa Maria dos Anjos, was built in 1758 to replace an older chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Graça, dating from 1566. It was expanded in the neoclassical style between 1885 and 1896.

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69.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

26.9 km

21.7 km

13.1 km

3.84 km

2.52 km

1.26 km

Surfaces

24.5 km

18.2 km

15.7 km

9.12 km

1.05 km

746 m

Elevation

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Highest point (340 m)

Lowest point (0 m)

Weather

Sunday 7 June

24°C

11°C

0 %

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Max wind speed: 19.0 km/h

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Apúlia Beach 🏖️ – Fão Bridge loop from Esposende

Esposende Maritime Museum ⛵

Ofir Park 🌲

Historic coastal windmills park 🌬️🌀 Apúlia 🏖️

Apulian Windmills

Apúlia Beach 🏖️

Fão Bridge

Castro of São Lourenço

Church of Santa Maria dos Anjos (Esposende Parish Church)

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