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Panorama from Balcony of Carqueijais (**) (Covilhã)

January 3, 2012 by Castile
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"Panorama

Balcony of Carqueijais

The Balcony of Carqueijais is a stopping place for those who crossed the dazzling array of sights and geomonuments the Natural Park of Serra da Estrela (****). Drinking water travelers here very fresh, light and pleasant and target the eyes of endless horizons to the east Beirão of Portugal and the far reaches of the Spanish mountains (Gata, Gredos), we saw this irmanas Star continuadoras the Cordillera Central and the Iberian Peninsula .
Let us just like almost everyone and let's stop here a little on the Balcony of Carqueijais to admire this magnificent panoramic view. At the bottom of the escarpment of the Serra da Estrela, the city spreads out Covilhã occupying, as unfortunately in some areas, agricultural land of great fertility. In addition to Real Wool Factory (*) which took advantage of narrow creeks and gorgeous.

varanda dos carqueijais 300x168 Panorama da Varanda dos Carqueijais (**) (Covilhã)
As on the north side, near Seia, here too the Serra da Estrela rises abruptly by huge geological faults of Alpine tectonics are essential for the vertical arribamento of our Serra de Estrela. Let's emphasize also the Serra Gardunha with a genesis similar to Serra da Estrela mountains, or the islands (inselbergs) housing on top of the historic villages of Belmonte (**) or Monsanto (****), or the fertile level surface of Cova da Beira.
If you have time, before reaching the Balcony Carqueijais who come to the West, the EN 339, I advise you to park and go see the curious geomonumento Stone Bear, zoomorphic granite outcrop (plate exists).
Stay with a snippet of our bible for travelers who describes the balcony of Carqueijais.
"It's the most beautiful view of the Author. Torres, of white houses, clusters of roofs in an orange, even waterfalls that will crash on some wheels, survivors of the old industry, farms and gardens on the outskirts, tapes road meandering through the hillside, some train in downtown Riverside, the looks tiny, it descends to the valley of the Zêzere and diluted in the distance, the path of the Guard-all is an amazing sight. The horizon is vast. The West is limited to the screen of hills, NE, draws up the hill of Hope, coma acastela village of Belmonte (**), extending through the villages of the mountainous heights Sortelha (***) and Malcata up Gardunha toothed profile (*), who hold our views in the extreme south. Beyond this line, a little right of Sortelha, and behind the border line of Malcata, appears in the clear days of winter or autumn, the mass of towering mountains of Gata, already in the land of Spain. Within this huge basin stretches to the Zêzere, just out of the bosom of the mountain, and it fit the counties of Belmont, Covilhã and Fu8ndão. The houses of the latter looks like a white ribbon at the foot of Gardunha. It is a great and fruitful Cova da Beira ".1
1-Guide to Portugal - Beira, II Beira Baixa and Beira Alta, pp 891-9184

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