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NATURAL LIFE
On the slopes that connect the peak of Marão to the river Douro, marked by valleys "powerfully dug", where some water lines such as those of Ovil, Valadares, Zêzere, and Teixeira, draw one of the greenest municipalities of the region...
LAND OF FLAVOURS
The gastronomy of Baião is so special that even some people say that Eça de Queiroz fell in love with both the landscape of this land and the flavors of their traditional cuisine when he wrote The City and the Sierras, referring to the magnificent rice ...
ANCIENT LAND
The oldest occupation of this territory is concentrated in the central plateaus of the Aboboreira and Castelo mountains and goes back to the recent prehistory that extends over a long chronological period of four thousand years (V to I millennium BC) ...
LAND OF CULTURE
The municipality of Baião presents remarkable heritage values, surprising panoramas, customs and traditions that enrich and particularize
this part of the country.
MAGIC LANDS
In this land of mountains and rivers - which rips to the skies -, territory of water, life, sculpted in shale and granite covered with the green of the forest, we walk through shadows and fogs, unraveling the mysteries that hide in the imagination of his people.
LAND OF ADVENTURE
There is a place, which incites us to embark on an adventure, with sites that inspire us, where the breeze becomes an ally, emotions come true and reality is transformed into sensations. There is a place where we can be ourselves and dared…
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Half-sized dolmen, probably closed, and amputated by the road, as well as the mamoa that covered it to the east. The slab found on the roof was found about 30m northeast of the monument, serving as a ...
During the Roman occupation of this territory the populations already inhabited preferentially in the slopes and in the valleys of the main waterways, with natural highlight for those of Ovil and Douro. There are traces of trails ...
Until the middle of the century. XX, the bakery was a much more urban reality than it is today. In the countryside, in the villages, the bread that was eaten was the bread, the dark bread, which was made fairly regularly at home, for own consumption. There were...
Large monument, built on a natural elevation, standing out strongly in the landscape. It is an open dolmen, without corridor, with an elongated polygonal shape, and composed of seven supports. Unfortunately,...
Although better known as Visconde de Vila Moura, his full name was Bento de Oliveira Cardoso and Castro Guedes de Carvalho Lobo, having been born in the House of Eira, place of Vila Moura, parish of Grilo, municipality of Baião, where ...
The occupation of the region continues throughout the medieval period, standing out the hill of the Castle of Matos. Strong brand in the landscape and the identity of Baião because it was the place chosen by the lord of this territory for the construction of ...
The Mother Church of Ancede was obviously the church of the monastery of St. Andrew of Ancede, built at the beginning of the twelfth century, since the first known documentary reference date back to 1120 ....
Walk with us on the rails of the Serra da Aboboreira. Take a deep breath and feel the fresh air of the mountain range or the scents of the sun-scorched earth. Look at the sky of an incomparable blue and prepare to discover the hidden villages, the sympathy ...
A source of inspiration for the novel "The City and the Mountains", Casa de Tormes, now home to the Eça de Queiroz Foundation, has a strong museological component, preserving the writer's estate and keeping alive the scene that Eça met and ...
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