In this flat, very humid and favorable to snowfall, was developed in the upper Pleistocene geological period, an ice cap stretching from north to Torre to the area of Curral Martins and Vale do Conde, located in a tectonic level below . The cap, w...
This Covão is a remain depression of a glacier. It is a poorly drained and a depressed area, in whose bottom has sediment accumulation, which make possible the development of woody vegetation. This depression is a Glacial Covão, which is about 200...
The village of Vila do Conde is extremely old, dating back to 953 the first documentary reference to the so-called committee villa, relating to the sale of land today called Monte do Mosteiro to the Guimarães Monastery, and where the first inhabit...
Régua is the center of the demarcated Douro region. It is in the central part of the Douro Line, between Porto and Pocinho. The fact that it is the junction point of two railway lines, and that several roads intersect here, made Régua an important...
Convent of Christ aerial view. The whole of these spaces, built over centuries since the beginning of portuguese nationality, makes the Convento de Cristo a grandiose monumental complex that deserves the classification of World Heritage by UNESCO.
Northern Portugal, Ponte de Lima village, aerial view of this beautiful village and it´s medieval bridge, over the Lima river, part of the portuguese Camino de Santiago in northern Spain.
Peniche Fort. Built by D. João III in 1557 and completed in 1645 by D. João IV, who considered it the main key of the Kingdom by the sea, it stands out in the Peniche Fortress, in addition to the typical star moth, the Bulwark Redondo - the first ...
The Abbey of Santa Maria de Alcobaça, is the finest example of Cistercian architecture in Christian Europe. In the course of time, to meet the needs for seclusion, wings were added, but these, for aesthetic reasons, in the then modern architectura...
