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  1. Oleiros
    Towns and Villages
    Oleiros
    The town of Oleiros, situated in a region usually referred to as the Pinhal area, and nearby the Cabril Dam, is an excellent place for a few days of rest in contact with nature. It still preserves from its distant past the vestiges of the presence (...)

  2. Cartaxo
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    Cartaxo
    About 10 kilometres from Santarém, Cartaxo is a village of very ancient origin, and at the time of the Roman occupation it was an important staging post on the road linking Lisbon to Santarém.The region is still basically agricultural, and is known (...)

  3. Museu Municipal de Loures (Qtª Conventinho)
Photo: CM Loures
    Towns and Villages
    Loures
    In the outskirts of Lisbon, the Loures region is traditionally known as the saloia (country) area, because the gardens that used to supply the city of Lisbon with vegetables and fresh produce were situated here.From the former times when it was in (...)

  4. Vila de Rei
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    Vila de Rei
    If you imagine a line crossing Portugal from north to south, and another from east to west, Vila de Rei is situated right in the geodesic centre of the country, a fact that is marked on a peak of a geodesic pyramid in the Serra de Melriça, a point (...)

  5. Towns and Villages
    Barreiro
    Raised to the category of town in the 16th century, the original nucleus of the village of Barreiro was composed of various fishermen from the Algarve, who settled here and worked in the barra (river mouth) of the port of Lisbon, and hence were (...)

  6. Benavente
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    Benavente
    The village of Benavente originates from a group of foreign colonists who settled on the south bank of the Tagus in the 13th century, according to a plan drawn up by King Dom Sancho I for the settlement of these lands, which were practically (...)

  7. Towns and Villages
    Sertã
    According to legend, Sertã owes its name to the wife of a Lusitanian nobleman who, after her husband died in a battle against the Romans, threw a "sertã"  (frying pan) full of boiling oil from the battlements of the castle over the Romans, forcing (...)

  8. Towns and Villages
    Vila Pouca de Aguiar
    Situated near the the Alvão Natural Park, the area around Vila Pouca de Aguiar still contains a number of remains from its very ancient settlement in the Iron Age (Castro de Cidadelhe), as well as evidence of its occupation by the Romans, such as a (...)

  9. Towns and Villages
    Sabrosa
    Situated in the Port wine demarcated region, Sabrosa still retains various features from the time of its settlement in the Neolithic period (dolmens and cromlechs) and some hill-top forts from the Iron Age, amongst them Castro da Sancha, which was (...)

  10. Mondim de Basto
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    Mondim de Basto
    Situated close to the River Tâmega, Mondim de Basto was founded in the twelfth century in the reign of D. Sancho I and it still retains many traces of its occupation over the years by the various peoples that passed through here. Overlooking the (...)

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