Description Fundão

Fundão is a Portuguese city in the district of Castelo Branco, in the province of Beira Baixa, in the Centro region (Beiras Region) and Beiras and Serra da Estrela sub-region, with about 8 750 inhabitants.

It is the seat of a municipality with 700.20 km² in area and 29,213 inhabitants (2011), subdivided into 23 parishes. The municipality is limited to the north by the municipalities of Covilhã, Belmonte and Sabugal, to the east by Penamacor and Idanha-a-Nova, to the south by Castelo Branco, to the southwest by Oleiros and to the west by Pampilhosa da Serra.

Tourism is one of the potentialities of the municipality of Fundão. Serra da Gardunha as the main natural element of the municipality, in addition to the unique landscape that awakes, is at the heart of a varied tourist offer that combines visitation programs to the most relevant heritage assets of the municipality, with the history, traditions and identity of the municipality .
 
Noteworthy are the historic village of Castelo Novo, the Schist Villages of Janeiro de Cima and Barroca, the network of Theme Houses spread throughout the county, the Moagem in the city of Fundão as a cultural equipment of excellence, the Municipal Archaeological Museum that guards some of the most important finds in the country, the Palácio do Picadeiro as the seat of the Transhumance Route, associated with an immense culture of popular traditions combined with a truly unique gastronomy always respecting the most authentic features of the municipality.

There are 12 walking routes created in the Serra da Gardunha in a total of 140 km.

These are short courses that can be covered on foot in just one day (less than 30 km).

They are traced along several paths and trails of Serra da Gardunha, providing the observation of the fauna and flora existing in the mountains and the observation of the landscape.

The Historic Villages network is made up of ten old urban settlements with a foundation prior to the Portuguese nation, of great historical importance.