Fancy a revealing road trip, a peaceful lagoon or the chance to explore a deep gorge ? We leave the tourist trail for peace, quiet and jaw-dropping moments
The interior of central Portugal, with its mountain ranges and rivers, ispeppered with castles, hiking and cycling trails, and little villages with houses made from schist. This brownish-grey metamorphic rock has a flat, sheet-like structure and was used to build hamlets up in the hills (it’s also the terroir of the Douro valley and some Azores vineyards). Continue reading...
