Arrival to Porto.
You will meet your guide at the arrivals area with a sign board. He will take you for check in at the hotel in Chaves.
Later your guide will take you out for lunch.
After which you will walk to the location where the activity of the day will start.
Explore Chaves a “flaviense” city that was the stage for the most varied civilizational reminiscences in the history of Portugal, such as the Roman, Visigoth, and Muslim.
Land of enchantments and monumentality, Chaves offers to those who visit it an encounter with the history and culture of the people of Alto Tâmega and its dazzling scenic nature.
You will also have a taste of the characteristic “Pastel de Chaves” and visit the Aquae Flaviae Museum, the Church of Misericordia and the Museum of the Flaviense Region and the Homage Tower - Military Museum.
At the end of this experience your guide will walk with you back to your hotel.
Distance: NA
Cumulative Gap: NA
Duration: 5h45min
Duration of trail: NA
Difficulty of Walk: NA
Meals: Traditional Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the village of Pitões das Júnias, where the trail begins.
This trail is located in the National Park of Peneda-Gerês.
Having as a backdrop the relief of Gerês, the Mourela plateau and the extensive valley of the Beredo stream, the trail presents landscapes of great beauty and high scenic value.
The main point of interest of this trail is the monastery of Sta. Maria das Júnias.
In its walls now live some lizards.
It is noteworthy the presence of the largest lizard of our fauna, the sardão (Timon lepidus) that can reach about 1 m in length.
In the small stream of Campesinho and in other water lines it is easy to find the viperine water snake (Natrix maura). Continuing the trail, in dry and open areas you can find the Montpellier snake (Malpolon monspessulanus), the largest snake in our fauna and even in Europe, which can reach 2 m in length.
These are just a few examples of species that can be found in the area. All of them are harmless.
After you will get to visit the "Ecomuseu de Barroso" of Montalegre and the Montalegre Castle.
Afterward your guide will take you back to your hotel in Chaves.
Distance: 4,3 Km | 2,7 mi
Cumulative Gap: +221 m / -221 m
Duration: 8h30min
Duration of trail: 1h30min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Moderate
Meals: Traditional Lunch
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the village of Soutelo de Aguiar, where the trail begins.
In this trail we crosse a cultural mosaic composed of chestnut groves, oak groves, and mountain swamps.
If we follow a short deviation we can visit the imposing Castle of Aguiar de Pena, erected in a splendid scenery and listed as monument of national interest.
Besides the visit of the rich historical, ethnographic and archaeological heritage of Terras de Aguiar, the trail is inserted into the Natura 2000 Network, in the Site of Community Importance of the Alvão/Marvão where one of the most important and best-preserved populations of the Veronica micrantha species can be found.
We will also have a taste of the sweets of Aguiar.
After this experience your guide will take you back to your hotel in Chaves.
Distance: 10,4 Km | 6,5 mi
Cumulative Gap: +363 m / -363 m
Duration: 6h45min
Duration of trail: 3h + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the location where your activity of the day will begin.
The activity of this day will be a choice between the options via ferrata and walking in Ecovia do Rabaçal.
And, to conclude the day, you will visit an emblematic winery - the "Casa do Vinho" - where you will experience wine and olive oil tasting.
After your guide will take you back to your hotel in Valpaços.
Distance of Via Ferrata: 120m
Distance: 10,3 Km | 6,4 mi || 4 Km | 2,5 mi
Cumulative Gap: +289 m / -325 m | +15 m / -187 m
Duration: 6h30min | 6h30min
Duration of trail: 3h + 30 min | 1h15min + 30 min
Duration of Via Ferrata: 1h30min
Difficult of Via Ferrata: Difficult
Difficulty of Walk: Difficult | Easy
Meals: Picnic, Dinner
Accommodation: 4 Stars Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the beginning of the trail.
This day trail follows through the village of Murça toward Tinhela river, one of the most well-preserved rivers in Europe, with an exceptional fauna and flora richness in which the “Passadiços do Tinhela” allow to enjoy safely and experience more intensely all the natural surroundings of its banks.
The urban section of this hike follows through various points of heritage and cultural interest, namely the cooperative winery of the village, the Praceta Soldado Milhões and the iconic Porca de Murça (Sow of Murça).
To finish we will have a tasting experience of wine, olive oil and conventual sweets in "Quinta Monte São Sebastião".
Finished the experience your guide will take you back to your hotel in Valpaços.
Distance: 6,5 Km | 4 mi
Cumulative Gap: +190 m / -190 m
Duration: 6h15min
Duration of trail: 1h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Easy
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: 4 Stars Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the village of Passos, where the trail begins.
The trail takes place in the Serra de Santa Comba where we find the largest concentration of recent Prehistoric schematic painting in Portugal. In this mountain we can highlight 3 places: the Regato das Bouças, which contains rock shelters, seats in schist and quartzite and that were occupied between the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic.
Inside there are schematic paintings, with anthropomorphic and arboreal figurations, executed in red ochre; the Cruzeiro Belvedere, where you can see the quartzite ridges, "Cascalheira" (a particular type of gravel) and Buraco da Pala; the Buraco da Pala, which is a prehistoric rock shelter with a single room.
In this shelter, three moments of human occupation took place between the middle of the III millennium BC and the beginning of the II millennium BC.
After the hike we will go olive oil taste in “da Oliveira e do Azeite” Museum.
At the end of this experience your guide will walk you back to your hotel in Mirandela.
Distance: 13,1 Km | 8,1 mi
Cumulative Gap: +549m / -549m
Duration: 7h30min
Duration of trail: 3h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult
Meals: Picnic, Dinner
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to Varge, where the trail begins.
The trail encompasses the protected area of the Montesinho Natural Park, focusing on the mountain meadows and old windmills situated by the banks of the Aveleda Stream which are identity elements of the landscape and production practices of the villages of this community, favouring the direct contact with nature and the vernacular heritage of the north-eastern border.
To finish the day you will visit "Casa do Touro" and a typical mill and forge.
After your guide will take you to your hotel in Mirandela.
Distance: 11,4 Km | 7,1 mi
Cumulative Gap: +290 m / -290 m
Duration: 8h15min
Duration of trail: 3h15min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Moderate
Meals: Picnic, Dinner
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the Albufeira of Azibo, where the trail begins.
By walking this trail we will see the Portuguese Oak and Sweet Chestnut coexist with Olive Tree, Vineyard, Cork Oak, brushwood and marshlands, in a mosaic enriched by the presence of spontaneous orchids.
The large mass of water allows the existence of several species of wild bird and fauna and is a nesting place to the Great Crested grebe, the symbol of the Azibo Protected Landscape.
If avaiable we will have the opportunity to boat tour the river and there have a traditional lunch.
Regardless, after we will visit the "Casa do Careto" of Podence with the activity of the elaboration of a traditional careto mask.
Finished this experience your guide will take you to your hotel in Carrrazeda de Ansiães.
Distance: 7 Km | 4,4 mi
Cumulative Gap: +171 m / -122 m
Duration: 9h | 8h30min
Duration of trail: 2h + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Easy
Meals: Lunch at “Sun Azibo Cruise” / Traditional Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the village of Vila Boas, where the trail begins.
This day trail starts near the Sanctuary of our Lady of the Assumption, it passes through the village of Vila Boas, and ends in Vilarinho das Azenhas.
The village of Vilas Boas is marked by the richness of its artistic, architectural, and religious heritage that manifest itself in the parish church of the Saint Mary Magdalene.
The trail follows the half slope of the imposing granite massif of the Faro Mountain.
It is a landscape of morphological, lithological, floristic and faunistic contrast with the lowlands of the Terra Quente Transmontana plateu.
Before arriving at Vilarinho das Azenhas there is a deviation to the Sanctuary of our Lady of Remedies.
The end of the trail is marked by the varied heritage of this village, including the church of Santa Justa.
After your guide will take you to your hotel in Carrazeda de Ansiães.
Distance: 11,8 Km | 7,3 mi
Cumulative Gap: +296 m / -757 m
Duration: 7h45min
Duration of trail: 3h30min + 30min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the beginning of the trail.
This day starts in Provesende.
The trail passes near the Torguiano viewpoint of São Cristóvão do Douro and goes down to the mouth of the river Pinhão through paths between terraces which shapes a vineyard landscape classified as World Heritage by UNESCO.
At the end of the trail one is overwhelmed with the unique view that stretches ahead, having reached the Douro river and mouth of the river Pinhão and one of the main shipping docks of splendid wines produced in the region.
After enjoy a boat tour on the magnificent Douro river.
For last we will visit an emblematic winery - the "Quinta do Bomfim" - and there have a taste of the regional wine.
After your guide will take you back to your hotel in Alijó.
Distance: 6,4 Km | 3,9 mi
Cumulative Gap: +39 m / -560 m
Duration: 7h30min
Duration of trail: 1h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Moderate
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the beginning of the trail.
This day trail goes towards Alijó passing through Castelo de Vilarelho, a fortified settlement where the first inhabitants of the region lived during the Iron Age.
Their remains survived the posterior Roman, Suebi and Arab occupations of the territory. In Alijó the trail passes through the historical centre of the town, where an imponent century-old sycamore tree can be found.
In Favaios, do not miss its rich historical and cultural heritage: admire its fountains, chapels, churches, manors and stately homes, several granite milestones, which used to demarcate the former Douro Demarcated Region.
We will also visit the "Favaios, Pão e Vinho" Museum Nucleus, whrere we can travel in time and and see the confection of the traditional and internationally recognized Favaios wine and the bread tradition, and the street known for its artisans bakers in Favaios.
At the end of this experience your guide will take you to your hotel at Porto.
Distance: 10,5 Km| 6,5 mi
Cumulative Gap: +307 m / -307 m
Duration: 7h45min
Duration of trail: 3h + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to Pinhal do Douro, where the first trail of the day begins.
This day trail is divided in two. In the first half, we encounter a natural landscape, formed by escarpments covered with the rich and diversified vegetation of the Douro Valley, that still subsists under the imposing Fraga da Ola.
This trail heads north, towards the village of Pinhal do Douro, where we can observe a set of scattered structures, identified as some apiary´s walls, ovens used to dry figs, and a set of mills, which make up and characterize the rural landscape.
On the second half, we will head to a different short-distance walking trail where we will observe several traditional mill structures, with their flumes and dams, as well as various other functional buildings, such as ovens to bake bread, barns, dovecotes, and houses.
All these are still well preserved, bearing witness to the traditional way of life of this population at the end of the 19th century and mid of the 20th century.
This walking ends by the information panel located next to Rural Memories Museum of Vilarinho da Castanheira that we will visit.
Afterward your guide will take you to your hotel in Alijó.
Distance: 9 Km | 5,6 mi && 5,7 Km | 3,5 mi
Cumulative Gap: +543 m / - 543 m & +183 m / - 61 m
Duration: 8h15min
Duration of trail: 2h30min + 30min & 1h45min + 30min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult & Easy
Meals: Picnic, Dinner
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the beginning of the trail.
The trail begins in Póvoa de Varzim and finishes in Apúlia.
Along the Coastal Way you will find spirituality, experienced in a different manner by each pilgrim, which transforms each trip through nature into a serene and emotional journey.
You will also witness the personification of many moments in life through the sceneries which help us to make sense of many things.
The sea breeze with a characteristic smell of seaweed that is drying on the sands, brought in and taken out again by the waves is the setting for a perfect painting. Stories are told in the historical centers about those who have already made their way.
After your guide will take you back to your hotel in Porto.
Distance: 10,1 Km | 6,3 mi
Cumulative Gap: +92 m / -86 m
Duration: 7h
Duration of trail: 3h + 30min
Difficulty of Walk: Easy
Meals: Traditional Lunch
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to the location where your activity of the day will begin.
Porto is the main economic, university and cultural center of the Northern Region.
It watched several of the moments of Portugal history and its Historic Center was classified as a World Heritage Site.
Its also well known in the world for its wine.
We will begin this day with a visit to the Historic Center of Porto, which include a visit to São Bento Station, Porto Cathedral and an emblematic winery with a sessin of wine tasting.
After you will visit this city at your own pace.
Afterward your guide will take you back to your hotel in Porto.
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Cumulative Gap: NA
Duration: NA
Duration of trail: NA
Difficulty of Walk: NA
Meals: NA
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
This is the day of the departure, so when your ready your guide will drop you at the airport.
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Cumulative Gap: NA
Duration: NA
Duration of trail: NA
Difficulty of Walk: NA
Meals: NA
Accommodation: NA