Montalegre, capital of Terras de Barroso for 734 years, is located in the northernmost fold of the barrosão plateau. In effect, he assumed this privilege, on June 9, 1 273, by letter granted by King D. Afonso III. This monarch erected, for his safety and that of the whole land of Barroso, the admirable mediévica fortress, circumnavigating it from walls, where millennia before our most remote ancestors had built his oppidum (castro).
The municipality of Montalegre is located between several mountains, and the west has the Peneda-Gerês National Park. The towns of this municipality still preserve the vernacular architecture of this region. The community oven is a fundamental part of these villages. In almost all the villages in the municipality, where this community property existed, there was an obligation to heat the oven, which went around the houses of the village farmers, who were those who had the means to fetch firewood. As, for example, it happened in Alturas do Barroso, “Anyone who had a group of cows to transport the firewood, to heat the oven, was obliged by the use and custom to heat the oven.” He was called the cooker, and he was also responsible for scheduling the turn of the people who cooked after him. Thus, whoever wanted to cook, went to the cooker, asked him for his turn, to find out who he was going to cook with, and put a sign to mark his turn. The sign could be firewood, bush, etc. and as they started to cook, each one took their mark, so people would know who was going to cook next and prepare the dough.
Alto Rabagão Dam, 1897 meters long, and the length of its reservoir is impressive, 2200 Ha. It is a mixed dam, an arc type part and a gravity part.
Carvalhais, a village of altitude, in the municipality of Montalegre. Like other villages in this municipality, it has a people's oven, where rye bread is baked, which, because it lasts less than corn, needed to be prepared more often, and hence t...
Cavado River, has its source in Serra do Larouco at an elevation of 1,520 metres (4,990 ft) above sea level. It runs 135 kilometres (84 mi) from Fonte da Pipa, near the triangulation station Larouco, to its mouth into the Atlantic Ocean next to th...
Meixedo, village of altitude, in the municipality of Montalegre. Like other villages in this municipality, it has a people's oven, where rye bread is baked, which, because it lasts less than corn, needed to be prepared more often, and hence the ne...
Montalegre, capital of Terras de Barroso for 734 years, is located in the northernmost fold of the barrosão plateau. In effect, he assumed this privilege, on June 9, 1 273, by letter granted by King D. Afonso III. This monarch erected, for his saf...
Salto is located in a mountainous environment, which restricts fertility and the extension of arable land, the production of cereals led to the organization of the term of each village in two very distinct spaces whose relations ensured the produc...
It is a well-preserved village, which gives access to a beautiful medieval stone bridge. It has the largest granary (locally called Canastro) in the whole country.
Padroso, village of altitude, in the municipality of Montalegre. Like other villages in this municipality, it has a people's oven, where rye bread is baked, which, because it lasts less than corn, needed to be prepared more often, and hence the ne...
Padornelos, village of altitude, in the municipality of Montalegre. Like other villages in this municipality, it has a people's oven, where rye bread is baked, which, because it lasts less than corn, needed to be prepared more often, and hence the...
At 1200 meters high, with the fragments and peaks of Gerês to the west and northwest, and the Mourela plateau to the east and northeast, Pitões das Júnias is one of the most visited villages in the municipality of Montalegre. In addition to the ri...
The Pitões das Júnias waterfall, in the heart of the Peneda-Gêres National Park, is supplied by the crystalline waters that pass by the Santa Maria das Júnias Monastery. It has a first drop of about 30 meters followed by several others that allow ...
The Pitões das Júnias waterfall, in the heart of the Peneda-Gêres National Park, is supplied by the crystalline waters that pass by the Santa Maria das Júnias Monastery. It has a first drop of about 30 meters followed by several others that allow ...
The Pitões das Júnias waterfall, in the heart of the Peneda-Gêres National Park, is supplied by the crystalline waters that pass by the Santa Maria das Júnias Monastery. It has a first drop of about 30 meters followed by several others that allow ...
This monastery dates back to an old pre-Romanesque hermitage, founded in the 9th century, whose implantation followed isolation criteria. It is located in a narrow valley, difficult to access and far from the paths and inhabited places, inscribed ...
