Arrival to Porto.
You will meet your driver and your guide 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 Régua, in a scenic train.
You will meet your driver at Régua Train station.
Then you will be transfered to the hotel.
Drop off at hotel and check in.
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Accommodation: Country Hotel
This trail starts and finishes in your hotel in Mirandela.
In this day, you will enjoy a charming walk, surrounded by the natural beauty of the region. Along the way, you will discover stunning landscapes and have the opportunity to learn about local history and traditions.
To complete the experience, you will visit the Museum “da Oliveira e do Azeite”, where you can taste and learn about one of the most valuable products in the region. Get ready to connect with nature and be amazed by the local culture.
Distance: 6 Km | 3,7 mi
Cumulative Gap: +81 m / -81 m
Duration: 5h
Duration of trail: 1h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Easy
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.
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: 4h
Duration of trail: 3h45min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Very Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your guide will take you to Valongo das Meadas, where the trail begins.
In this day you will walk Portuguese Way of St. James in the East.
The Portuguese Way of St. James in the East crosses a fantastic territory, with an enormous diversity in landscape, from idyllic wooded and verdant sceneries to more arid and rustic areas, equally beautiful and inspiring. It crosses hospitable localities, well served by pilgrim support services, and also with an enormous patrimonial, cultural, and gastronomic wealth. People may have different purposes (spiritual, religious, for the pleasure of walking, or curiousness) for walking it, it continues to be the right challenge to live a memorable experience.
The trail finishes at your hotel in Valpaços, where you will go to the spa for leisure.
Distance: 13,9 Km | 8,6 mi
Cumulative Gap: +249 m / -181 m
Duration: 7h30mi
Duration of trail: 4h + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Moderate
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: 4 Stars Country Hotel
Optional Experience: Olive spa and pumpkin spa
At the beginning of the day your driver will take you to the beginning of the trail.
This trail starts in the Rabaçal River Beach and finishes in the village of Lilela. After traveling a short distance we will find the “do Agostinho” Bridge, a roman bridge from the first century a.d. We will also get to know the Village of Cachão, an uninhabited village, but which continues to host the pilgrimage of São Genésio in August. This village is is today a garden of various fruit trees and also various types of secondary vegetation, such as giestais. It is possible to find new habitats such as olive groves and vineyards. Along the Rabaçal river you will reach the Foz do Rio Torto, the most hollowed out part of the river, where you can find otters and a dam forming a mirror of water. Here you will find naiads (freshwater mussels) concentrated on the banks with the vegetation. Continue the Rabaçal is more alluvium until the village of Lilela, but before the village by the mouth of the Torto River meet the observatory, where you can observe and learn all about the birds present in the territory, such as the Grey Heron.
Finished the hike your driver will take you back to your hotel in Valpaços.
Distance: 15,3 Km | 9,5 mi
Cumulative Gap: +336 m / -363 m
Duration: 6h45min
Duration of trail: 4h30min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Difficult
Meals: Picnic
Accommodation: 4 Stars Country Hotel
At the beginning of the day your driver will take you to the beginning of the trail.
The trail starts and finishes in Santa Valha. While you walk down the trail you will visit a group of rupestrian winepress, where the wine is made like the Romans made it. There you will get to know Calcatorium, the first wine of rupestrian winepress that revives the ancient Roman technique.
Afterward your driver will take you back to your hotel in Valpaços.
Distance: 12,4 Km | 7,7 mi
Cumulative Gap: +411 m / -411 m
Duration: 6h
Duration of trail: 3h30min + 30 min
Difficulty of Walk: Easy
Meals:Picnic
Accommodation: 4 Stars 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 Régua Train station.
There you will have 1.5 hours of free time to explore this beautiful city.
At the end you will return to Régua Train station to 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: 10h30min
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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