About Bryan | Exploro Ergo Sum
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- Bryan | Exploro Ergo SumDecember 19, 2025
The final stage of the GR26 is a return to the literal and symbolic roots of the Sicó region. Here, the cork oak dominates, a native and resilient tree, present in the largest continuous area of this species in all of Europe. Walking through these woods is like entering an ancient, fresh, and profoundly
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- Bryan | Exploro Ergo SumDecember 19, 2025
The Windmill Route is dedicated to the most elevated points of the Sicó region, where the wind has shaped the landscape—and life. Scattered across the mountains are the unique rotating windmills, rare structures made of wood and set in stone circles, capable of rotating with the currents. For centuries
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- Bryan | Exploro Ergo SumDecember 19, 2025
On the sixth stage of the GR 26, you'll walk through the gastronomic heart of the Sicó region, where the landscape, shepherding, and time shape one of its greatest symbols: Rabaçal cheese. Produced from sheep and goat milk, slowly cured and faithful to ancestral methods, this cheese is inseparable from
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- Bryan | Exploro Ergo SumDecember 19, 2025
In this stage, the route crosses a territory shaped by time, limestone… and vineyards. The Sicó region reveals its sunniest side here, with gentle slopes covered in vines that give rise to wines of marked character, born from clay-limestone soils and a climate of contrasts: cold winters, hot summers
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- Bryan | Exploro Ergo SumDecember 19, 2025
In this stage, the ground tells stories. The karst landscape of Sicó reveals itself in full, in a territory where water has sculpted the limestone over millennia, creating lapies, sinkholes, and caves that seem to come from another planet. It is here that geology takes center stage: raw, beautiful, and
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- Bryan | Exploro Ergo SumDecember 17, 2025
This stage delves into the deepest origins of the Sicó Lands, a territory shaped by water and time. The Sicó Limestone Massif hides an underground world of caves and sinkholes, ancient galleries opened by rainwater infiltration into the limestone, which served as shelter since the Paleolithic era and
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If you're looking for a long-distance route that remains true to the land it traverses, you've found it.
The Terras de Sicó Great Route (GR 26) takes you to discover a deep and authentic Portugal, where the karst landscape and ancient paths tell stories thousands of years old. You'll cross limestone mountains
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