Description Castanheira de Pera

Castanheira de Pera is a Portuguese village in the district of Leiria, in the province of Beira Litoral, integrating the Intermunicipal Community of the Region of Leiria, in Central Portugal, with about 1 300 inhabitants

It is the seat of a small municipality with an area of ??66.78 km² and 3,191 inhabitants (2011). The municipality is limited to the northeast by the municipality of Góis, to the southeast by Pedrógão Grande, to the west by Figueiró dos Vinhos and to the northwest by Lousã. The municipality was created in 1914, previously belonging to Pedrógão Grande. About 74 km from the city of Leiria, its district capital and 57 km from the city of coimbra and 104 km from the city of Castelo branco

Castanheira de Pera deserves to be visited for countless reasons, located in the Center of the Country, located in the heart of Serra da Lousã, where beautiful green landscapes predominate.

We find in Castanheira de Pêra innumerable memorable viewpoints, a territory that has maintained its traditional and rural line over the centuries to the present day

The beauty of Serra da Lousa marks the landscape of Castanheira de Pêra, which offers several points of mandatory passage, if we want to know the history of this region of the country. Without losing contact with nature, visit the Fluvial Pools of Espelho de Água, built in schist, the beautiful Ribeira de Pera Valley, the Poço Corga Beach, to enjoy its waterfalls. The most known
 is the Fluvial Beach of Rocas, transformed into a leisure space with about 1Klm of area.