Arrival to Porto.
You will meet your driver at the arrivals area with a sign board.
You will be transfered to Campanha Train station.
You will enjoy a fantastic journey, from Campanha to Pinhão, in a scenic train.
You will meet your driver at Pinhão Train station.
Then you will be transfered to the hotel.
Drop off at hotel and check in.
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Accommodation: Country Hotel
You can begin this trail from your hotel in Alijó.
It starts and ends in Alijó.
One of the highlights of Alijó is its mother church which dates back to the 18th century.
There one can still find the baptismal font, two chalices (respectively from the 14th and the 16th century), an image of “Santa Maria Maior” in Ançã stone (16th century), the “Paços do Concelho” (Town Hall), the Pillory, the chapel of “Senhor do Andor” or “Senhor dos Passos”, and the granary of Alijó.
The trail continues towards Castedo passing through Granja.
In the village of Castedo, the parish church, which dates back to the 18th century, is of particular interest due to the richness of its interior decoration, its fully coffered ceiling as well as a beautiful monstrance - chalice from the same period of the construction of the church.
The return to Alijó is marked by the presence of vineyards and the possibility of taking a deviation to the chapel and viewpoint of São Domingos, both located on the “Monte de São Domingos”.
You can also end your hike at the hotel.
Distance: 19 Km | 11,8 mi || 12,8 Km | 7,9 mi
Cumulative Gap: +486 m / -486 m | +277 m / -277 m
Duration: 7h15min | 5h30min
Duration of trail: 5h30min + 30 min | 3h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult | Moderate
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Country Hotel
You can begin this trail from your hotel in Alijó.
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.
Later 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.
Finished the trail your driver will take you to your hotel in Carrazeda de Ansiães.
Distance: 10,5 Km| 6,5 mi
Cumulative Gap: +307 m / -307 m
Duration: 6h
Duration of trail: 3h + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your driver will take you to the village of Pinhal do Douro, where the trail begins.
This day will take you on a walk with landscapes and adventures of dazzle and fall in love!
You will start by going to Pinhal do Douro, a village rich in beauty and culture, in Carrazeda de Ansiães. In addition to its subsistent natural landscape, you will find the imposing viewpoint of Fraga da Ola, giving the opportunity to observe the vineyard of the main historic estates of the Port wine production.
To recover the energy, nothing better than a traditional picnic in the historic water mills in Vilarinho da Castanheira.
To end this day, you will visit the Museum of Rural Memories, is a museum unit designed to work themes related to Rural Culture and Intangible Heritage of the Douro and Trás-os-Montes region.
At the end of this experience your driver will take you back to your hotel in Mirandela.
Distance: 18,7 Km | 11,6 mi
Cumulative Gap: +806 m / - 716 m
Duration: 7h15min
Duration of trail: 5h15min + 30min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
At the beginning of the day your driver will take you to the Sanctuary of our Lady of the Assumption in Vilas 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.
Finished the trail your driver will take you to your hotel in Mirandela.
Distance: 11,8 Km | 7,3 mi
Cumulative Gap: +296 m / -757 m
Duration: 6h45min
Duration of trail: 3h30min + 30min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your driver 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.
Finished the experience your driver will take you 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
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your driver will take you to Murça, where the trail begins.
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).
At the end of the trail your driver will take you to Pinhão Train station, from where you will take a scenic train to Porto.
When you arrive at Porto your driver will be waiting there to take you to your hotel.
Distance: 6,5 Km | 4 mi
Cumulative Gap: +190 m / -190 m
Duration: 8h15min
Duration of trail: 1h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Easy
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Four Stars Hotel
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. In this day you will visit this city at your own pace.
This is the day of the departure, so when your ready your drive will drop you at the airport.
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