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Towns and VillagesParedes de CouraSituated in a region that has many sites of great archaeological interest, Paredes de Coura was particularly important during the Wars of Restoration fought between Portugal and Spain in the seventeenth century. In recent years, the town has begun (...)
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Towns and VillagesPenafielIn a region that is known to be of very ancient origin, it is said that there were once two castles here, one by the name of Aguiar de Sousa and the other known as the castle of Pena. When the Moors occupied this region, they tried to invade the (...)
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Towns and VillagesPenedonoPenedono´s mediaeval castle stands on a huge rock, a unique example of military architecture that dominates the surrounding countryside. There is plentiful evidence of the region´s occupation in prehistoric times, in particular the dolmen in the (...)
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Towns and VillagesPenicheIn Peniche, the fortress that D. João IV ordered to be built in the seventeenth century was, like the forts on Consolação beach and the S. João Baptista fort on the Berlenga Islands, an important military complex for protection against invasions (...)
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Towns and VillagesPeso da RéguaIt is thought that the town´s name originated from the name of a Roman house that once stood here - the "Villa Reguela". Its great development was, however, only to begin after 1756 with the creation of the Real Companhia Geral da Agricultura das (...)
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Towns and VillagesPinhãoPinhão is considered to be the geographical centre of the Douro demarcated wine region, and it is here that many of the Port wine estates are to be found, some of which offer accommodation under the system of rural tourism. Worthy of particular (...)
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Towns and VillagesPiódãoBuried deep in the Serra do Açor (a protected landscape area), which is full of breathtaking views, springs and pastureland, the historical village of Piódão is reminiscent of a crib because of the harmonious way in which its houses are arranged in (...)
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Towns and VillagesPombalIt was the Master of the Templars Dom Gualdim Pais who, in the 12th century, ordered the building of the Pombal Castle (which the town developed around), in a region that was then the dividing line between the territory already reconquered by the (...)
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Towns and VillagesPonta DelgadaPonta Delgada began as a simple fishing village whose fishermen were once attracted by its safe coves, but soon began to play the role of main port of the São Miguel Island.The city grew and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the convents, (...)
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Towns and VillagesPonte da BarcaSituated in a luxuriant green region by the banks of the River Lima, Ponte da Barca is thought to have taken its name form the boat (barca) that connected the two banks before the bridge (ponte) was built in the fifteenth century. Previously, this (...)
