Thursday, February 9, 2012

Valley Vilariça (Bragança) (**)

The Valley Vilariça has an approximate area of ​​34,000 hectares, constituting a small alluvial plains of 5000 hectares, the river that gives it its name, and which rises to about 25 kms in the Serra de Bornes. The Valley Vilariça corresponds to an active mega fracture, which traverses the district of Bragança in the direction N / S, coming from Galicia and extends the district of Guarda. This failure has widened in the lower river and stream Flavor of Vilariça. It is this great structure (Read Full Article)

7 touristic wonders (Local notables) of the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo

Tower Moncorvo is a municipality within an ancestral landscape, has its headquarters in the center of a district council in the region transmontana modernity. The landscape can still be distorted by the construction of the dam the river Sabor. Moncorvo Tower is also known for the excellence of its oil from its nuts and its excellent gastronomy with the sheep and the famous churra put. 7 Notable Places in the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo-Church Tower Moncorvo (**)-Church (Read Full Article)

Baldoeiro village of Belvedere and St. Gregory (*) (Bragança) - Did you know ... in Portugal is practiced the cult of Ophiusa?

Who goes that beautiful winding road to the Plateau Adeganha stop around the corner, because the landscape is very beautiful. After going to see the magnificent Romanesque church of Adeganha (**), linger awhile in Belvedere where St. Gregory observes the thriving Valley Vilariça (**), the isolated hill of the legendary Santa Cruz Vilariça of the mouth of the beast Sabor river, the Douro and the curve that surrounds Mount Meão, and on the opposite side note the great block tectonic uplift, the Village (Read Full Article)

Overview of Our Lady of the Castle Urros (Bragança) (*)

"The Serra da Forca is far and ugly. It has grass but it's worth? The past has left here lost both scream, both unburied corpse, so lost soul, that even the litanies of spring turn away and go wide. But it is in places like the cursed people, perhaps for the reason of preserving the gossip, legends like planting beautiful and attractive. And go he had to invent a wild treasure that curse. It is that it was difficult. Buried between (Read Full Article)

Panorama of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Castle Adeganha (Bragança) (*)

After having described the spectacular Romanesque church of Adeganha, we went to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Castle (*). We walked the edge of the Plateau in Adeganha estradão desengonça that our poor car! Of the three "castles" shown by the people-Moorish Castle, Junqueira and this, go to the most convenient, yet, I repeat, poor car! The environment is harsh with granite Carvalhas, junipers and executioners sometimes skips ahead a partridge. Location (Read Full Article)

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption-matrix Tower Moncorvo (**) - Did you know ... is one of the most beautiful monuments of the Mannerist style Portuguese?

Friends readers, Tras-os-Montes is not only beautiful scenery, because in her lap houses an impressive array of churches, as are examples of the parish church tower Moncorvo and still in the same county as the Romanesque church of Adeganha (**). "The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, matrix Moncorvo Tower, stands on the spot where once there was a Romanesque temple. The monument was built from 1544. It is a Mannerist work, austere and harsh lines, with (Read Full Article)

St. James Church headquarters Adeganha (Bragança) (**)

"This road leads to the village of Estevais, and then Cardanha Adeganha. The traveler can not stop everywhere, can not knock on every door to ask questions and to heal the lives of those who live there. But it does not know or want to detach themselves from their tastes and has the fascination of the work of men's hands, goes to Adeganha where he said there was a precious Romanesque chapel, this big. Go and ask, but amazed at the great and unique granite slab that (Read Full Article)

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