Aveiro

Ovar

Discover the 8 parishes that make up the municipality of Ovar, Aveiro district.

8 Parishes

54,953 Inhabitants

49m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Ovar

Don't visit just one. Here's a route of 8 parishes ordered geographically for a perfect weekend getaway.

Esmoriz

Esmoriz

11,922 inh.

Cortegaça

Cortegaça

3,746 inh.

Maceda

Maceda

3,380 inh.

Arada

Arada

7,358 inh.

São João

São João

7,358 inh.

Válega

Válega

6,474 inh.

Ovar

Ovar

7,358 inh.

São Vicente de Pereira Jusã

São Vicente de Pereira Jusã

7,357 inh.

This route is calculated geographically to minimise travel. Perfect for discovering the municipality at your own pace.

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Parishes
of Ovar

8 parishes

Arada

Arada

Corn-coloured plots, café clocks, pilgrims’ bread: life at 62 m in Ovar’s Arada

Cortegaça

Cortegaça

Salt, pine-sap and woodsmoke ride the Atlantic wind into this Ovar village.

Esmoriz

Esmoriz

Ride the boardwalk above Barrinha’s mirrored marshes, spoonbills overhead

Maceda

Maceda

From barrel-scented lanes to pine-scented dunes, Maceda blends craft, chapel and empty surf.

Ovar

Ovar

Salt mist, baroque chapels and vanishing cliffs in Portugal’s barely-above-sea-level town

São João

São João

Between Ria de Aveiro’s briny mist and resinous pines, São João breathes slow, eel-rich days.

São Vicente de Pereira Jusã

São Vicente de Pereira Jusã

Hear cocks, smell turned earth, spot the Ria glint—this Ovar parish still rules its own horizon

Válega

Válega

Quarries silent, schist cottages glow; eel stew & rockets in Ovar’s pilgrim hamlet

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