O Mário
Over time and with fame appear the restaurant with the name of its founder: “Mario.” Today, it is a nook that keeps the flavors and traditions of Portuguese cuisine, well suited to the demands of the times.
SPECIALTIES: Panela no Forno, Carqueja Rice e Fundão kid grilled or in the oven.
OPENING HOURS:
DISTANCE: 11 Km
Casa dos Leitões
Casa dos Leitões is located in a quiet and pleasant place, with a small park for the little ones to enjoy after a good meal.
In the restaurant we have two rooms and a ballroom with capacity for 140 people ideal for gatherings, baptisms, anniversaries and business meetings.
SPECIALTIES: Roast suckling pig in a wood oven stylish Cova da Beira
OPENING HOURS: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
DISTANCE: 10 Km
As Tílias
With more than 18 years, the restaurant “As Tílias” offers a seasonal menu that reinvents traditional recipes, always betting on regional high quality products.
Now in a new environment, the restaurant “As Tílias”, offers you a meal in a spacious and pleasant space, ideal to enjoy fully your meal served with the most genuine hospitality.
SPECIALTIES: Roasted Cod Grilled, Maranhos, Porl tenderloin with cherries e Black pork in garlic sauce.
OPENING HOURS: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Closed on Wednesdays
DISTANCE: 4 Km
Portela da Gardunha Route
“The route links the vital areas of two parishes that since the Middle Ages grew on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Gardunha. The Alcaide crown the last branch of the difficult terrain of the mountain here a softer side. Vale de Prazeres enlivens rooted to the fertile fields of the mountain’s base. The Portela is the major identity marker of these horizons. “
POINTS OF INTEREST: Alcaide, Portela da Gardunha, Biodiversity and Vale de Prazeres
SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer and Autumn
DIFFICULTY:
– Middle Diversity: Very Easy
– Orientation: Very Easy
– Surface: Easy
– Physical Effort: Something Difficult
Marateca Route
“The Marateca Route develops between the village of Soalheira in Fundão, and the northern shores of Santa Agueda Dam in the field of Louriçal do Campo, Castelo Branco. The reservoir of Santa Agueda recalls the name of a medieval chapel, which is now submerged and replaced by another built next to the wall. Marateca is the name of one of the leading farms in the countryside located in the dam’s edge. “
POINTS OF INTEREST: Soalheira, Homesteads grazing fields, Dam of Santa Agueda, Birdlife habitats and Cheese factories
SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer and Autumn
DIFFICULTY:
– Middle Diversity: Very Easy
– Orientation: Very Easy
– Surface: Very Easy
– Physical Effort: Something Difficult
Pedra D’Hera Route
“The Pedra D’Hera Route joining the center of Fundão to the mountain and holding the rock that belongs to the collective memory of the inhabitants of Fundão and that gives name to this footpath. Pedra D’Hera is a natural viewpoint par excellence, surrounded by a vegetation and clear water lines that create habitats conducive to the emergence and development of numerous species of fauna and flora. “
POINTS OF INTEREST: Former Fundão área, Cherry Orchards, Castro de São Brás, Fagaceae Grove, Pedra d’Hera – Viewpoint, Convent and Chapel of Our Lady of Pebble, Convent Park
SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer and Autumn
DIFFICULTY:
– Middle Diversity: Very Easy
– Orientation: Easy
– Surface: Easy
– Physical Effort: Very Easy
Carvalhal Route
“The Carvalhal Route connects the village of Souto da Casa to the emblematic site of Carvalhal, following the fresh banks of streams of Gardunha and the valley of the river of Tormentoso paced by the wise connections between the community, water and earth.“
POINTS OF INTEREST: Souto da Casa, watermills, windmills and “Levadas”, Lady of Gardunha, Carvalhal and Aquifer Flora
SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer and Autumn
DIFFICULTY:
–Middle Diversity: Easy
–Orientation: Easy
–Surface: Easy
–Physical Effort: Something Difficult
Cherry Route
“This route develops from cherry fruit while rooted in a very specific and chromatically changing landscape during the seasons.
In the spring, the cherry trees are dressed in white painting the Gardunha a unique spectacle. In summer, the green of the trees is punctuated by red fruits that delight the palate. In the fall the ocher tones of yellow-orange leaves inundate the mountain range of hues and magnificent colors. The gray of the bare trunks of trees involved the damp mists are confused, in winter, with the rocks from which spring the sounds of pure water sources and renewal of certainties of the land of life that seems to sleep. “
POINTS OF INTEREST: Alcongosta, Cherry orchards, Basketry in Esparto and Viewpoints
SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
DIFFICULTY:
–Middle Diversity: Very Easy
–Orientation: Easy
–Surface: Easy
–Physical Effort: Something Difficult
Chestnut Route
“The Chestnut Route presents a landscape together unified by the presence and the memory of identity and emblematic tree of Fundão: Chestnut.
The route unites two villages, Donas and Alcongosta, whose history and heritage identify the serrano territory “
POINTS OF INTEREST: Donas, Cherry orchards, “Levadas” and Mills, Chestnut Woods and Alcongosta
SEASON ADVISED: Spring and Autumn
DIFFICULTY:
– Middle Diversity: Very Easy
– Orientation: Easy
– Surface: Easy
– Physical Effort: Very Easy
River Beach of Souto da Casa
Souto da Casa, village belonging to the municipality of Fundão, is located next to the Serra Gardunha with a wide geographical area.
It was recently recovered space surrounding the Ribeira da Gardunha, transformed into a river beach. You can also visit several mills.
LOCATION: Souto da Casa
DISTANCE: 10 Km
River Beach of Janeiro de Cima
This river park is an area with an important historical significance for the people of fundanense pine forest on both sides of the river Zêzere. The area is served by numerous infrastructure, ranging from the rank of first aid to a terrace bar, playground, camping and playground, prepared to practice soccer and tennis. At the bar, you can still look for tourist activities company that provides you with bikes for hire and organizes hiking, mountain biking and boat, with visits to the rock carvings, January Low and Baroque, among other activities of interest. On the beach, is also the possibility of renting boats and oars.
LOCATION: Janeiro de Cima
DISTANCE: 45 Km
River Beach of Castelo Novo
It is the new bathing area of Fundão, Portugal overlooking the mountains Gardunha, has 5 different depths, bar with snacks, toilet and lawn solarium. From here, you can go three pedestrian routes: Penha Route , Alpreade Route and the New Castle Historical Path and set out to discover the best of Beira Baixa.
LOCATION: Castelo Novo
DISTANCE: 13 Km
Ecomuseum of Zêzere
This museum structure is intended to give the visitor the history of the Zêzere River and is housed in the former Granary of the Manor House.
Historically the Manor House were the most important family of Belmonte, great owners built this barn in front of your solar has been the building forever known as the Granary of the Manor House.
Directly based on an outcrop of granite is a solid and sober construction of unknown date, which have been however some renovations, the most obvious of which occurred with the opening of the border road at the entrance which forced the construction of access ramps.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISATANCE: 34 Km
Castle of Belmonte
The Castle of Belmonte, in the Beira Baixa, is located in the parish, town and municipality of Belmonte, Castelo Branco District, Portugal.
In a dominant position on a hill on the left bank of the river Zêzere, in the Serra da Estrela region, this medieval castle has its history linked to the Portuguese discoveries and Brazil, since its Alcaides belonged to the navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral family.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISTANCE: 35 Km
Castle of Sabugal
The Castle of Sabugal, also referred to as Castle of the Five Quinas due to the unusual shape of its main tower, located in the parish, city and county Sabugal, in the district of Guarda, in Portugal.
In dominant position over the village, on a small plateau of Malcata saw, controls the crossing of the Coa River on its right bank, hence its importance in antiquity and in medieval times.
LOCATION: Sabugal
DISTANCE: 60 Km
Olive oil Museum
Ancient olive press, built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was recovered in order to teach visitors the olive oil production process as well as its importance in the local economy.
In receiving the visitor can taste tests of olive oil and other products and even a trap door where they were lying olives that went directly to where they were subsequently crushed in the second floor are all machines which produced olive oil.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISTANCE: 34 Km
Museum of Discovery
The Museum of Discovery / Interpretation Centre “New World Discovery (DNM)” comes from the will of Belmonte City Council in making known one of the greatest achievements ever in the history of the Portuguese Discoveries – the finding of Brazil.
This space aims to raise awareness, study and disseminate the achievements of Cabral and explore the history of the nation’s largest Portuguese-speaking, which over five centuries has built up through an extraordinary coexistence of cultures.
Visit DNM is like taking a trip with more than 500 years. It is an approach to the history of the discoveries and Brazil. So this epic was produced with the use of most modern technologies and museographic in order to be understood and understood by all public technical, unsettling them, encouraging them and giving them the opportunity to participate, know and interpret our history .
The DNM is a space of sensations and emotions that make us understand, respect, dream and travel. It is a journey through time as we could never do.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISTANCE: 34 Km
Weavers House
The streets of the village of Janeiro de Cima hide secrets like the House of Tecedeiras, a space where reinvents the linen tradition betting on modern design pieces.
In addition to the store, this space also serves as an interpretive center where visitors get to know the linen cycle and can experience an ancient loom.
The artists of the Weavers House are all local villagers, who have benefited from years of training in textile design. Today can produce a wide variety of items, ranging from clothing and fashion accessories to household linen and decorative pieces.
LOCATION: Janeiro de Cima
DISTANCE: 45 Km
Mushroom House
The mushroom house is installed in the former village primary school. Inside there is a laboratory mycelium spread (fungi) for subsequent distribution to farmers aiming to produce mushrooms. There is also a small explanation room / training visitors / students. Outside, there is a greenhouse whose function is self-production, research / demonstration and training.
LOCATION: Malhada Velha
DISTANCE: 30 Km
Wheel House
In the Wheel House of Caria it is open to the public an exhibition of the wheel houses, where you can see some objects used by exposed, as well as some documents relating to children enjeitadas the county.
LOCATION: Caria
DISTANCE: 29 Km
Bass Drum House
Its estate focuses on the history of bass drum, while musical instrument and structuring element of the local identity of the area, recovering it through new technologies and high trial rate equipment.
LOCATION: Lavacolhos
DISTANCE: 17 Km
Honey House
The Honey Interpretation Centre, or House of Honey, is housed in the former village school. There can be seen the history of beekeeping in 2 times. An L-shaped corridor, there is an exhibition on beekeeping (history, utensils and materials, melliferous flora, anatomy bee, among other related topics). In this same corridor, it can still be seen through a glass wall, a honey extraction unit with the existing modern equipment, from receipt of the hive with honey, the whole process of extraction, storage, packaging, labeling and expedition.
LOCATION: Bogas de Cima
DISTANCE: 31 Km
Ethnographic House of Valverde
Representative space of old family cottage with the focus on household items and traditional clothing.
LOCATION: Valverde
DISTANCE: 4 Km
Big House of Barroca
Housed in a former eighteenth century manor, the spoils of this museum space focuses on representations and pieces of information and interpretation of rock art manifestations in the melting pit on the banks of the river Zêzere, and relates them to the ancestral and current realities that characterize the territory specific Pinhal Interior. It belongs to the Network of Schist Villages.
LOCATION: Barroca
DISTANCE: 32 Km
House Museum of São Jorge da Beira
This House Museum exposes furniture and old utensils; utensils and references to mines, including from there extracted stones; old clothes and mannequins old; musical instruments; cellar and respective tools; agricultural implements.
LOCATION: São Jorge da Beira
DISTANCE: 43 Km
House-Museum D. João de Oliveira Matos
Space corresponding to musealization of the birthplace of D. João de Oliveira Matos (1879/1962), Auxiliary Bishop of the Guard (1922), founder of the League of the Servants of Jesus (1924) by opening several houses in the country, namely the Outeiro S. Miguel, on which installed a school–workshop. Dedicated to the spiritual and educational assistance concerned. Founded education centers, shelters, children’s colonies and gave support to needy families. The exposed estate concerns every stage of your life.
LOCATION: Valverde
DISTANCE: 4 Km
House-Museum of Children’s Folklore of Unhais da Serra
This House-Museum exposes ethnographic collections and the work of field tools. You can also see the reconstruction of an old kitchen and a typical old wine cellar.
LOCATION: Unhais da Serra
DISTANCE: 31 Km
House Museum Typical Tavern de Paul People’s House
The House Museum is a living portrait of an old house and the way of life that people had in Paul. The rehabilitation of the house was done keeping it in the early traces, either outside or inside. The Typical Tavern is a living space, dominated the warmth of the fireplace, roast smoked sausage and wine jug.
LOCATION: Paúl
DISTANCE: 25 Km
House Museum Monsignor Alves Brás
Aiming to perpetuate the memory of the person, life and work of Monsignor Joaquim Alves Brás, an illustrious son of Casegas as Father and Founder, the House-Museum provides the background picture of the life and work of this man. So, the collection includes pieces with ethnographic / ethnological, humanistic and religious information, such as agricultural and domestic activity elements, personal clothing, liturgical vessels, some sacred art elements, bibliographic elements, books and digital media illustrating the various institutions he founded, and give continuity to his charisma.
LOCATION: Casegas
DISTANCE: 33 Km
Patrimonial Space of Teixoso
Baroque chapel, with panels painted in oil on wood, representing the life, death and resurrection of Christ.
LOCATION: Teixoso
DISTANCE: 28 Km
Interpretation Center of Santiago Church
Romanesque temple of the thirteenth century, has changed over time, with Gothic and Mannerist elements. In the fourteenth century, it was built the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy, forming an interesting gothic set. In the late fifteenth century, the Pantheon of Cabrais him–was attached, restored in the seventeenth century, which today are the remains of Pedro Alvares Cabral. In the eighteenth century, its facade was remodeled and built the bell tower. It presents sixteenth century fresh inside. It was foothold to pilgrims of Santiago, a topic also addressed in the Interpretation Centre.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISTANCE: 35 Km
Centum Cellas
The Centum Cellas Tower have been, according to studies done after the excavations made in the 90s, a Roman first century AD villa, Lucius Caecilius property and their descendants who dedicated themselves to farm and exploitation of tin that abounded in this region. The tower, which was the most important building of the whole structure, consisted of two floors, with the ground floor several rooms and being the area of services.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISTANCE: 35 Km
Museum Circuit of Souto da Casa
There are various ethnographical spaces that physically independent, correspond to a visiting tourist circuit: the Alembic, the Workshop of Tinker, the House of Weaver, a carpenter‘s workshop, the workshop of the shoemaker, the blacksmith workshop, the Watermill , the House of Ganhão and the Tedder Chestnut.
LOCATION: Souto da Casa
DISTANCE: 9 Km
Castros Route
The route of the Castros is an organized route with signs on the ground, and each of the nine pre-roman villages. There is a guidebook about Roadmap of the Castros with geographic information, cartographic, historical and various utilities. It is anticipated the installation of the Interpretation Center of the Castros of Fundão Council, in Castro de S. Brás.
LOCATION: Fundão
DISTANCE: 5 Km
Domus Mundi Museum Center António Guterres
Domus Mundi is a museum center designed from the patrimony that engineer António Guterres bequeathed to the city of Fundão, whose collection consists of pieces that have been tendered during the performance of his duties as Prime Minister of Portugal. This space, essentially educational nature, aims to promote the democratic spirit, solidarity and human cooperation in a universal and universalist message of ethnic, ideological and confessional coexistence. This true “World House” is an invitation to a journey through the different world cultures, promoting human manifestations in different latitudes of the globe as wealth of modern civilization.
LOCATION: Donas
DISTANCE: 2 Km
Municipal Archaeological Museum José Monteiro
In this museum are exposed archaeological artifacts from the Neolithic period, Protohistory, Roman and Medieval. The two main collections concern the the Protohistoric and Roman epigraphy.
LOCATION: Fundão
DISTANCE: 5 Km
Museum of Art and Culture of Covilha
Set in a E. Korrodi building with allegorical tile panel and elements relating to the Discoveries, this museum contains works of art from religious and architectural nature, from prehistoric times to the present day that depict part of the patrimonial history of the council. It is divided thematically: historical and archaeological heritage; religious heritage; religious painting; civil art and contemporary art.
LOCATION: Covilhã
DISTANCE: 23 Km
Sacred Art Museum of Alpedrinha Parish
This museum space, which works in the Church of Alpedrinha, presents a set of sacred art objects from various eras, as numerous liturgical vessels, vestments and imaginary.
LOCATION: Alpedrinha
DISTANCE: 12 Km
Sacred Art Museum of Mercy of Fundão
The Sacred Art Museum presents imaginary parts, painting, jewelery, liturgical vestments, liturgical vessels and other objects.
LOCATION: Fundão
DISTANCE: 5 Km
Museum of Sacred Art of Casegas
Installed in high choir on top of the Church of Casegas, this museum has several images of the XV to XVIII, which include the Holy Spirit, Our Lady with Child, St. Peter and St. Anthony. In addition to these pieces presents a document of the seventeenth century, when Pope Urban VIII establishes, in Casegas, the Stewardship of the Blessed Sacrament. Can be seen, also a Sanctum and Baroque carving of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many objects and religious ornaments.
LOCATION: Casegas
DISTANCE: 33 Km
Wool Museum at the University of Beira Interior
This museum, dedicated to the history of wool, it is also an industrial museum of archeology, anthropology and science and technology. In 2002, won the award for “Best Portuguese Museum“, the Portuguese Association of Museology. It is a poly-nucleated Museum: the nucleus of the Royal of Textile Factory, dated 1764, shows the archaeological and preserved architectural structures and resulting spoils of archaeological interventions in the area, as well as several manufacturing textile equipment, especially in support of spinning, weaving and dyeing; Râmolas do Sol core, next to the Ribeira da Carpinteira, on the site of Sineiro, shows, in situ, the tenter of wool and Ramôlas do Sol important in wool transformation process in tissues; the core of the Royal Veiga Factory is the headquarters of the Museum.
This museum belongs to the Portuguese Network of Museums.
LOCATION: Covilhã
DISTANCE: 22 Km
Museum of Silvares D. Ilda Valentina Mesquita
This museum has as colletion the following themes distributed by its three floors. Ground floor: Path Flax; 1st floor: various traditional costumes; 2nd floor: representative area of old family cottage with the focus on household items.
LOCATION: Silvares
DISTANCE: 24 Km
Museum of Printing and Typography
This museum works in Fundanense Casino and is mostly composed of the typographical collection donated by the family of Joaquim Valente Serra, whose professional life was always linked to the graphic activity. On site it can make a incursion by the print beginnings to the present and meet some printing machines and objects related to graphic arts. The set of elements on exhibition, highlight a replica of a Gutenberg press.
LOCATION: Fundão
DISTANCE: 5 Km
Museum of Castelejo
Representative space of the old family cottage, with the focus on domestic utensils and traditional clothing.
LOCATION: Castelejo
DISTANCE: 12 Km
Cheese Museum
Unique in the region, the Cheese Museum, located in the village of Peraboa, allows the visitor to know the process of making one of the best cheeses in the world, delicacy appreciated and recognized internationally. The new museum space, opened on 14 May 2011, has two parallel paths: a museum and a gastronomic, allowing different sensory experiences to visitors. Through a real journey and multimedia [2D and 3D projection], didactic and interactive games, visitors can learn the environment involving art and the process of cottage industry of Queijo da Serra as well as the techniques and tools used to over the years for making this delicacy. At Museu is still it possible to know the Kosher sheep’s cheese characteristics, produced in Peraboa, according to the precepts of the Jewish religion. In the House of the Masters, small restaurant associated with the gastronomic route of the Cheese Museum, visitors also have the opportunity to taste dishes made-up with cheese and other regional products, allowing the dissemination and preservation of local cuisine and cheese from Serra da Estrela.
LOCATION: Peraboa
DISTANCE: 26 Km
Museum of Folklore and Ethnographic Ranch of Refúgio
Museum of “memories and collections” regarding the life of the Ranch; includes in its formation a typical house, with kitchen, bedrooms, living room and spaces for storage, diverse colletion of suits and other clothes, decorative items and agricultural tools.
LOCATION: Refúgio
DISTANCE: 21 Km
Museum of Built-in of António Santos Pinto House
The museum consists of built-in furniture style Louis XIV and Louis XV: outsole chairs, utensils to record at sole and original furniture designs in built-in; and other elements like clocks, lamps and vases.
LOCATION: Alpedrinha
DISTANCE: 11 Km
Ethnographic Museum of Liga dos Amigos de Alpedrinha
Installed in the ancient Town Hall, the Museum illustrates the past of alpetrinienses: how they worked, how they cooked, what they wore, how they lived. It features single use utensils such as black pottery, dishes, combs, toys; old clothing such as ladies underwear, dresses, baptism suits, ladies hats; utensils of typical professions such as barber and carpenter; sewing machines; a collection of irons from the earliest to the electrical; musical instruments of the old Philharmonic Band of Alpedrinha; typography, which belonged to José Antonio Mota Salvado, where printed the “Monografia de Alpedrinha“, among other books also of his own and still shows old books.
LOCATION: Alpedrinha
DISTANCE: 11 Km
Archaeological Centre of Castelo Novo
This Center, settled in a former House of Castelo Novo Chamber, presents spoils of Medieval and Modern times by integrating the resulting archaeological collection of the full excavation of the castle of this Historical Village: ceramics of the centuries XIV to XVI, for the confection, preservation and consumption food, personal hygiene and of other recreational purposes. It also presents an extensive numismatic and metal artifacts collection.They can see also artifacts related to war and hunting.
LOCATION: Castelo Novo
DISTANCE: 13 Km
Museum of Lavaria
The Museum of Lavaria is a vast collection of industrial machinery related to the ore wash (wolfram) here took place, recovering unique elements of industrial archeology, establishing strong parallels with the social and human dimension that this activity had, including equipment of ore separation (physical and chemical), laboratories and the documentation center.
LOCATION: Silvares
DISTANCE: 23 Km
Museum of Pastoralism
The Museum has musical instruments and utilities fruit of the creation under the pastoral art or related to it; audiovisual recordings of interviews with pastors in relation to their memories, their practices and transhumance routes and photographic surveys in the form of exposure.
LOCATION: Salgueiro
DISTANCE: 21 Km
O Lugar da Banda
This space was opened on 13 September 2009. Its assets various instruments of the Philharmonic União Santa Cruz, as well as the history and photographs of the Regents who passed through the band. It also has a picture of St. Cecilia (patron saint of music).
LOCATION: Aldeia Nova do Cabo
DISTANCE: 7 Km
River Beach of Paúl
Land of strong agricultural and cultural traditions, the village Paul adapted in 2001, the margins of the river that drive through the village, to be used in the hottest time of year. The Ribeira do Paul born in Taliscas, by the merger of two major rivers of the county of Covilhã: Ribeira das Cortes and Unhais da Serra. Down the cliffs and hills of the Serra da Estrela mountain range, the clear waters of this tributary of the Zêzere gives life to the river beach. Near the fifth century bridge and surrounded by ancient Levadas and water mills, the area available to its users, in addition to refreshing spaces, the possibility of discovering the river surface rental boats.
LOCATION: Paúl
DISTANCE: 24 Km
Palácio do Picadeiro
Palácio do Picadeiro includes different thematic areas, namely a space focused on the history of Alpedrinha and one of his historical characters with greater projection; also has a space that focuses on the geographical peculiarities of the municipality of Fundão.
LOCATION: Alpedrinha
DISTANCE: 11 Km
Museum Room of Adega Cooperativa da Covilhã
Are in this room antique pieces that were used in the production / preparation of wines, from the foundation of the cellar in 1954.
LOCATION: Covilhã
DISTANCE: 24 Km
Villa da Quinta Fórnea
Roman villa centuries AD I to III, with several structures that demonstrate the self-sufficiency of the place; an oil mill, wine, processing of cereals, iron foundry, stables for animals. It was also placed uncovered a spa and several compartments, probably related to housing owners and their dependentes.
LOCATION: Belmonte
DISTANCE: 35 Km
Castle of Monsanto
The Castle of Monsanto, Beira Baixa, is located in the parish and village of Monsanto, Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco District, Portugal.
The granite top Monsanto Hill, on the right bank of the river Pônsul this frontier medieval castle dominates the Historical Village, architectural complex which sets out some manors mansions and temples, such as the ruins of the Chapel of St. Michael in Romanesque style.
LOCATION: Monsanto
DISTANCE: 48 Km
Castle of Sortelha
The Castle of Sortelha is located in the eponymous village, Sabugal municipality, Guarda district in Portugal.
Erected on a granite massif in a dominant position over the valley of Riba-Coa, pass-through area between the Iberian Meseta and depression of Cova da Beira, part of the whole which is considered one of the best preserved historic villages of Beira Interior.
LOCATION: Sortelha
DISTANCE: 48 Km
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![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fpedra-dhera-route%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F11%2Frota_pedradhera1.jpg&description="The Pedra D'Hera Route joining the center of Fundão to the mountain and holding the rock that belongs to the collective memory of the inhabitants of Fundão and that gives name to this footpath. Pedra D'Hera is a natural viewpoint par excellence, surrounded by a vegetation and clear water lines that create habitats conducive to the emergence and development of numerous species of fauna and flora. " POINTS OF INTEREST: Former Fundão área, Cherry Orchards, Castro de São Brás, Fagaceae Grove, Pedra d'Hera - Viewpoint, Convent and Chapel of Our Lady of Pebble, Convent Park SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer and Autumn DIFFICULTY: - Middle Diversity: Very Easy - Orientation: Easy - Surface: Easy - Physical Effort: Very Easy){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fcarvalhal-route%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F11%2Frota_carvalhal1.jpg&description="The Carvalhal Route connects the village of Souto da Casa to the emblematic site of Carvalhal, following the fresh banks of streams of Gardunha and the valley of the river of Tormentoso paced by the wise connections between the community, water and earth." POINTS OF INTEREST: Souto da Casa, watermills, windmills and "Levadas", Lady of Gardunha, Carvalhal and Aquifer Flora SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer and Autumn DIFFICULTY: -Middle Diversity: Easy -Orientation: Easy -Surface: Easy -Physical Effort: Something Difficult){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fcherry-route%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F11%2Frota_cereja1.jpg&description="This route develops from cherry fruit while rooted in a very specific and chromatically changing landscape during the seasons. In the spring, the cherry trees are dressed in white painting the Gardunha a unique spectacle. In summer, the green of the trees is punctuated by red fruits that delight the palate. In the fall the ocher tones of yellow-orange leaves inundate the mountain range of hues and magnificent colors. The gray of the bare trunks of trees involved the damp mists are confused, in winter, with the rocks from which spring the sounds of pure water sources and renewal of certainties of the land of life that seems to sleep. " POINTS OF INTEREST: Alcongosta, Cherry orchards, Basketry in Esparto and Viewpoints SEASON ADVISED: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter DIFFICULTY: -Middle Diversity: Very Easy -Orientation: Easy -Surface: Easy -Physical Effort: Something Difficult ){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fchestnut-route%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F11%2Frota_castanheiros0011.jpg&description="The Chestnut Route presents a landscape together unified by the presence and the memory of identity and emblematic tree of Fundão: Chestnut. The route unites two villages, Donas and Alcongosta, whose history and heritage identify the serrano territory " POINTS OF INTEREST: Donas, Cherry orchards, "Levadas" and Mills, Chestnut Woods and Alcongosta SEASON ADVISED: Spring and Autumn DIFFICULTY: - Middle Diversity: Very Easy - Orientation: Easy - Surface: Easy - Physical Effort: Very Easy){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fmuseum-of-discovery%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F11%2Fdescobrimentos001.jpg&description=The Museum of Discovery / Interpretation Centre "New World Discovery (DNM)" comes from the will of Belmonte City Council in making known one of the greatest achievements ever in the history of the Portuguese Discoveries - the finding of Brazil. This space aims to raise awareness, study and disseminate the achievements of Cabral and explore the history of the nation's largest Portuguese-speaking, which over five centuries has built up through an extraordinary coexistence of cultures. Visit DNM is like taking a trip with more than 500 years. It is an approach to the history of the discoveries and Brazil. So this epic was produced with the use of most modern technologies and museographic in order to be understood and understood by all public technical, unsettling them, encouraging them and giving them the opportunity to participate, know and interpret our history . The DNM is a space of sensations and emotions that make us understand, respect, dream and travel. It is a journey through time as we could never do. LOCATION: Belmonte DISTANCE: 34 Km){kind=link}
 for subsequent distribution to farmers aiming to produce mushrooms. There is also a small explanation room / training visitors / students. Outside, there is a greenhouse whose function is self-production, research / demonstration and training. LOCATION: Malhada Velha DISTANCE: 30 Km){kind=link}
. In this same corridor, it can still be seen through a glass wall, a honey extraction unit with the existing modern equipment, from receipt of the hive with honey, the whole process of extraction, storage, packaging, labeling and expedition. LOCATION: Bogas de Cima DISTANCE: 31 Km){kind=link}
, Auxiliary Bishop of the Guard (1922), founder of the League of the Servants of Jesus (1924) by opening several houses in the country, namely the Outeiro S. Miguel, on which installed a school-workshop. Dedicated to the spiritual and educational assistance concerned. Founded education centers, shelters, children's colonies and gave support to needy families. The exposed estate concerns every stage of your life. LOCATION: Valverde DISTANCE: 4 Km){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fdomus-mundi-museum-center-antonio-guterres%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2F6511176671_59f61e7bb2.jpg&description=Domus Mundi is a museum center designed from the patrimony that engineer António Guterres bequeathed to the city of Fundão, whose collection consists of pieces that have been tendered during the performance of his duties as Prime Minister of Portugal. This space, essentially educational nature, aims to promote the democratic spirit, solidarity and human cooperation in a universal and universalist message of ethnic, ideological and confessional coexistence. This true "World House" is an invitation to a journey through the different world cultures, promoting human manifestations in different latitudes of the globe as wealth of modern civilization. LOCATION: Donas DISTANCE: 2 Km){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fwool-museum-at-the-university-of-beira-interior%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2Fmuseulanificios005.jpg&description=This museum, dedicated to the history of wool, it is also an industrial museum of archeology, anthropology and science and technology. In 2002, won the award for "Best Portuguese Museum", the Portuguese Association of Museology. It is a poly-nucleated Museum: the nucleus of the Royal of Textile Factory, dated 1764, shows the archaeological and preserved architectural structures and resulting spoils of archaeological interventions in the area, as well as several manufacturing textile equipment, especially in support of spinning, weaving and dyeing; Râmolas do Sol core, next to the Ribeira da Carpinteira, on the site of Sineiro, shows, in situ, the tenter of wool and Ramôlas do Sol important in wool transformation process in tissues; the core of the Royal Veiga Factory is the headquarters of the Museum. This museum belongs to the Portuguese Network of Museums. LOCATION: Covilhã DISTANCE: 22 Km){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fmuseum-of-folklore-and-ethnographic-ranch-of-refugio%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2F6511014423_bd0f8c7a97.jpg&description=Museum of "memories and collections" regarding the life of the Ranch; includes in its formation a typical house, with kitchen, bedrooms, living room and spaces for storage, diverse colletion of suits and other clothes, decorative items and agricultural tools. LOCATION: Refúgio DISTANCE: 21 Km){kind=link}
![Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fa3-portfolio%2Fethnographic-museum-of-liga-dos-amigos-de-alpedrinha%2F&picture=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercadesignhouse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2F6511257991_81c029c28e.jpg&description=Installed in the ancient Town Hall, the Museum illustrates the past of alpetrinienses: how they worked, how they cooked, what they wore, how they lived. It features single use utensils such as black pottery, dishes, combs, toys; old clothing such as ladies underwear, dresses, baptism suits, ladies hats; utensils of typical professions such as barber and carpenter; sewing machines; a collection of irons from the earliest to the electrical; musical instruments of the old Philharmonic Band of Alpedrinha; typography, which belonged to José Antonio Mota Salvado, where printed the "Monografia de Alpedrinha", among other books also of his own and still shows old books. LOCATION: Alpedrinha DISTANCE: 11 Km){kind=link}
 here took place, recovering unique elements of industrial archeology, establishing strong parallels with the social and human dimension that this activity had, including equipment of ore separation (physical and chemical), laboratories and the documentation center. LOCATION: Silvares DISTANCE: 23 Km){kind=link}
. LOCATION: Aldeia Nova do Cabo DISTANCE: 7 Km){kind=link}
River Beach of Lavacolhos
Just 13 kilometers from Fundão, the village of Lavacolhos renowned nationally for its drums group, which found the origins of pastoralism and in the Mediterranean region a unique identity.
The bathing area, despite serving a small town, is well endowed with infrastructure, with large grassy area for sunbathing and children’s games, playground, grills and tables area, changing rooms and a terrace bar. The Gardunha river waters allow swimming, diving and fun with canoes.
LOCATION: Lavacolhos
DISTANCE: 17 Km