Description Fornos de Algodres

The Municipality has an area of ??131 km spread over a total of 12 parishes that give this region great tourist potential, due to the value of its natural, archaeological, architectural, ethnographic and gastronomic heritage.

Discovering this Municipality of Beira Alta, located at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, will quickly become a pleasure.

Combined with an indescribable natural heritage, we find an archaeological and architectural heritage that gives us the possibility to travel back in time, with more than 5000 years.

The Dolmen; the Castro de Santiago; the Fraga da Pena; the sidewalk sections and Roman bridges; the Necropolises; the Churches and Chapels; the Pelourinhos; the emblazoned houses, palaces and manor houses, as well as interesting architectural elements, mirror the grandeur of the vestiges that are a historical and cultural testimony of the civilizations that inhabited or transited here.

If all these arguments are not enough to entice you, the rich gastronomic and ethnographic heritage that characterizes the surrounding reality also stands out.

All Parishes in the Municipality of Fornos de Algodres are an integral part of the area of ??the Serra da Estrela Cheese Demarcated Region. Enjoying good cheese and good wine in a rustic environment, and enjoying the magnificent landscape and the calm of our farms, are unique moments.

To visit the Municipality of Fornos de Algodres is to contemplate the past and the present, the landscape and heritage, the uses and customs of the best that our country has to offer.

Visit us and see!