Prominent summit of the western Trás-os-montes is the Serra do Marão. It is one of the highest mountains in northern Portugal with 1415 meters dividing the basins of the rivers Tâmega and Corgo. Far from the summit, to the southeast in a place overlooking the Douro Valley.
This ancient town, older than the founding of Portugal, owes its name to the abundance of vineyards that covered the slopes and produced excellent wine. Today the production of wine has almost disappeared. In the time of the Romans there was a settlement called Veniatia, through which passed the road that linked Braga to Astorga. Suebi, Visigoths, Vandals, […]
At the time of the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the primitive streak Limits Portucalense county with the lion kingdom was developing along the left bank of the river Sabor to its confluence with the creek Angueira. This streak was guarded by four main sentinels: Castle Million, Castle Santulhão (both have since disappeared), the […]
Mafómedes is a small village inside the Marão Mountain Range. Mafómedes used to be complete inaccessible in the winter
