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Rui Costa planned a hike
June 17, 2020
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June 17, 2020
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June 17, 2020
"The “Amoreira” Valley Route is strongly marked by human influence, allowing the walkers to explore the natural, cultural and landscape patrimony of the parish.
Its landscape is characterized by a huge variety of mosaics interspersed with thickets, sloughs, vegetation spots, paths, walls, schist buildings
Rui Costa planned a hike
June 17, 2020
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"The Sun Route owes its name to the particular solar exposure. It’s a route with different and emblematic scenarios.
The walker may contemplate a landscape marked by a traditional agriculture influence, with vineyards, terraces, small horticulture, marshes and watercourses, be dazzle by the typical mountain
Rui Costa planned a hike
June 17, 2020
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"Walking by the Sameiro Route we plunged in a tradition and history atmosphere. Along the trail we can observe monuments of popular and religious use that allows us to absorb the whole singular existence. In terms of urban heritage, buildings of genuine projects appear, being the highlight the St John
Rui Costa planned a hike
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"On the Reboleira Route you can admire landscapes marked by the human presence, through the villages dotting the intense green horizon with white houses, sculpted by the flaps on the ground, terraces, marshes, leafy forests and uncultivated grazing areas. It is still possible to witness the influence
Rui Costa planned a hike
June 17, 2020
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"This route stretches, partly, in an area called “Quartelas”, which corresponds to a multiplicity of agriculture plots that allows the walker to dive in an environment that carries you throughout the history and traditions of agriculture and grazing that characterize Manteigas.
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Rui Costa planned a hike
June 16, 2020
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"The Poios Brancos Route owes its name to the fact of crossing, in the highest point, granitic aggregation of Poios Brancos, which in the first snow of the year dresses white, giving a clear sign to the Manteigas population that the winter has arrived.
The Poios Brancos correspond to a Tor – typical granitic
Rui Costa planned a hike
June 16, 2020
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"By going through the Inferno Well Route we can see a dualism of landscape, humanized and natural, marked by different kinds of vegetation, with hardwoods and softwoods forests, where the senses arouse different emotions along the trail.
Due to the higher schistose peaks, formed by corneal rocks (phenomenon
Rui Costa planned a hike
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"“Precipitated ravines, gloomy Covões, chaotic cliffs, giant hills, several fantasies of an grotesque creation, which accumulate, in disordered throng, there it has also those notes of delicate contrasts, withal nature of the roaring lion to the nightingale twittering, and the dreadful thunder storm
Rui Costa planned a hike
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"The Boar Route allow us to see the humanized landscape with a panoramic view over Manteigas village, to cross the heart of magnificent forests, to climb to the top of the Leandres stream and to feel the waterfall of “Inferno Well”.
Walk through the road made by Horácio when he launched himself in the
Rui Costa planned a hike
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"Finalist of the 7 Natural Wonders of Portugal, the Zêzere Glaciar Valley makes its path through its interior along the Glaciar Route, blazing a path of unique beauty. The route follows the refreshing Zêzere River, between paintings that frame the blue sky and the green valley.
Along the Glaciar Route
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"The Beech Route enables the discovery of something new and exciting at each moment, from splendid landscapes to glowing vegetation that along with agriculture and grazing provides a perfect ride for those who wants to know the mountain, its costumes and people.
More than a pedestrian trail, the Beech
Rui Costa planned a hike
June 16, 2020
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"The Saint Mary Covão Route is bathed by the Mondego river, which runs fast and crisp in a natural amphitheatre, surrounded by marshes, where grows the graze and the herds feed. Along the trail the walker comes into direct contact with the culture and traditions of the Manteigas County, submerging in
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"The Moors Corridor Route, gifted with an unsettling mystical and beauty, is full of biodiversity, allowing the discovery of an extraordinary chromatic and morphologic variety.
Filled out with interesting attractive points to observation, the practice of outdoors activities and to rest, the trail offers
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"The Coal Route tells a part of the history of Manteigas, closely related to grazing, rye and forest. From the zone with the higher altitude of the course, beside the use of the natural pastures for the cattle, that is still grazed nowadays, the coal was produced through the burning of heather root for
June 17, 2020
"The Village of Manteigas it’s located in the middle mountain range of Serra da Estrela, embedding itself in the River Zêzere Glacier Valley.
By contemplating the landscape the visitor is confronted with typical streets, traditional houses and monuments of faith and religion, urban and natural heritage