Cascade Stone Wound (Penela) (*) - The scourge of singular beauty
March 10, 2011 by Castile
Categories: Municipalities , District, Coimbra , More , Penela , All items , Natural Areas
Although Portugal Continental be territory of morphological contrasts do not have many notable waterfalls. Remember a sudden the following: Pêgo of Hell (Tavira) (*), Pulo do Lobo (Beja) (*), Fraga da Pena (Arganil) (*), Cabreia (Sever do Vouga) (*), the Frecha M i Sarela (**), Plough (Lands of Bouro) (*), Fisgas Ermelo (Mondim de Basto) (*), there are still others who deserve our star, but let us wait on the most beautiful waterfall in the district of Coimbra, the Cascade Stone Wound in the parish in the county of Spinal Penela, in the Mill creek, whose visit to us is always a cause for delight.
The origin of the Cascade Stone Wound
The cascade of Wound Stone owes its origin to the relief of hardness caused by the existence of corneal rocks (rock harder) the amount in respect of schistose rocks (rock milder) downstream. This difference in hardness originated lithological a set of small waterfalls that materialize the sharp slope of the Mill creek in this area. Only two more notes before we change the paragraph: the corneal exist due to the small granite body that intruded in the region (Vila Nova granite) and that resulted in a metamorphic aureole, the largest waterfall, is not so minorca, because it affects the 25 meters.
From the village there sinalizção Spinal how to get there, after leaving the paved road will pass through a large cork and is following the right bank of the Mill creek, continue driving, the path turns left and up the hillside drive slowly, you do not want to dent your cart let you down here, I always follow because I have lead feet, and wham, passing tighter the curve, we reached a small square, from here on the dirt road gives rise to a wet, winding footpath.
Let us begin now to walk the walk and notice that the flora is lush and rich, at times we think we are in the Forest of Hostels (***) in Geres, are alders, willows, elms (these endangered), Pyrenean oak , chestnut, holly, ferns, real, and especially St. John's wort do Geres laurels ... - maybe even a picture taken on the island of Madeira, is more accurate than the image of the forests of the Serra do Geres, but get ahead because it is late. Also here the man made several mills and fulling mills and water scattered here and there are the hard millstones; the abandoned mills are always romantic places for us and remind us of the old miller's toil, the basic bread cycle provecto when Man has interacted positively with nature.
After a few hundred meters, we come to the Mill stream by a wooden bridge recently and started to climb a staircase and rough so we will reach the first waterfall smaller and finally the largest, the cascade of Stone Wound emerges imposing and seductive mix of respect and admiration, which falls raptured, the height of 25 meters, having built a huge pit and building a smaller downstream of that - permanent attention friends humidity makes walking very slippery, but patience and care, taking into account that the best things are those that are more difficult to achieve.
The cascade is associated with few illusions of youth that it does not count here, because it is reserved to close and because the reader would think me insane, I can look up, but such thinking is unfounded, because I'm almost crazy with a judgment does not finally oak gives black pudding.
In National Highway 347 between the Spinal and Castanheira de Pera there is a viewpoint that helps to contemplate this gift of nature still untouched.
One day back again, often use the "Stone of Wound, cascade / Mystery of pure water / The water never dries there / The wound never heals," the trauteiam espinhalenses basis.
