Aveiro

Santa Maria da Feira

Discover the 28 parishes that make up the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro district.

28 Parishes

136,674 Inhabitants

170m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Santa Maria da Feira

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

União das freguesias de Santa Maria da Feira, Travanca, Sanfins e Espargo

União das freguesias de Santa Maria da Feira, Travanca, Sanfins e Espargo

19,788 inh.

Fornos

Fornos

3,433 inh.

Mosteirô

Mosteirô

6,481 inh.

São Miguel de Souto

São Miguel de Souto

Arrifana

Arrifana

6,311 inh.

Milheirós de Poiares

Milheirós de Poiares

3,594 inh.

Escapães

Escapães

3,315 inh.

Pigeiros

Pigeiros

1,844 inh.

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

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Parishes
of Santa Maria da Feira

28 parishes

Argoncilhe

Santa Maria da Feira

Argoncilhe

White-clad girls parade edible crowns through clay-earth lanes where Manueline granite still stands.

Arrifana

Santa Maria da Feira

Arrifana

Village women shoulder newborn-sized Fogaça loaves to São Sebastião, scenting Atlantic air with lemo

Caldas de São Jorge

Santa Maria da Feira

Caldas de São Jorge

Steam drifts from a coffee-coloured spring, shuttered spa corridors echo wartime stories, and Januar

Canedo

Santa Maria da Feira

Canedo

Aveiro parish where Atlantic light meets granite cottages and Arouquesa beef simmers in tascas.

Escapães

Santa Maria da Feira

Escapães

Dawn sugar-loaves rise in stone lanes above Caima mills and baroque crosses

Fiães

Santa Maria da Feira

Fiães

Granite terraces, Art-Nouveau balconies and a 1596 church glow in this Aveiro village.

Fornos

Santa Maria da Feira

Fornos

3,433 neighbours share stone walls, fogaça cake and Arouquesa steak near Aveiro

Gião

Santa Maria da Feira

Gião

Sweet fogaça loaves, Arouquesa beef and silent horizons in Santa Maria da Feira’s smallest parish.

Guisande

Santa Maria da Feira

Guisande

Granite hamlet above Aveiro where wood-smoke, yeast and unlisted stew mark the week.

Lobão

Santa Maria da Feira

Lobão

Yeasty smoke drifts past São Sebastião as women knead saffron dough for the centuries-old bread proc

Louredo

Santa Maria da Feira

Louredo

Granite lanes smoulder with oak smoke, fogaça processions and Arouquesa beef under pewter skies.

Lourosa

Santa Maria da Feira

Lourosa

White-cloaked daughters parade 3-kg sculpted loaves to São Sebastião chapel each 20 January

Milheirós de Poiares

Santa Maria da Feira

Milheirós de Poiares

Follow 120 girls carrying IGP Fogaça loaves, then picnic on trucked Ovar sand beside the Ul River.

Mosteirô

Santa Maria da Feira

Mosteirô

Watch white-clad girls balance blessed fogaça bread through fog-lifted streets in Mosteirô.

Mozelos

Santa Maria da Feira

Mozelos

January fog lifts as sixty Fogaceiras carry 800 g loaves from São Sebastião chapel through the Aveir

Nogueira da Regedoura

Santa Maria da Feira

Nogueira da Regedoura

Village keeps 1572 vow with saffron fogaceiras and river-cooled air

Paços de Brandão

Santa Maria da Feira

Paços de Brandão

Follow the ghost-scent of pulp to a 17th-century manor, Arouquesa meadows and candle-scented fogaça.

Pigeiros

Santa Maria da Feira

Pigeiros

Granite chapel, sweet-bread vows and wood-oven beef crown this 188 m Feira hamlet.

Rio Meão

Santa Maria da Feira

Rio Meão

Bare-headed women carry five-kilo sweet-loaves to Feira castle, tracing a 1561 plague vow through Ri

Romariz

Santa Maria da Feira

Romariz

Granite eaves drip dew as fogaça processions weave between boulder-walled meadows.

Sanguedo

Santa Maria da Feira

Sanguedo

Watch January’s first dough rise in Sanguedo bakeries while the Festa das Fogaceiras parade rehearse

Santa Maria de Lamas

Santa Maria da Feira

Santa Maria de Lamas

Wood-fired *fogaça* loaves parade through dawn mist to honour a 1554 promise in Aveiro’s most aromat

São João de Ver

Santa Maria da Feira

São João de Ver

Brick lanes, July fogaça smoke and 300 °C devotion in Santa Maria da Feira

São Miguel de Souto

Santa Maria da Feira

São Miguel de Souto

Ox-dragged church, oxide soil and Zé Manel’s tavern serving Feira’s sweetest fogaça

São Paio de Oleiros

Santa Maria da Feira

São Paio de Oleiros

Village ovens fire at 6 a.m., baking golden loaves that march to St Sebastian on 20 Jan

União das freguesias de Santa Maria da Feira, Travanca, Sanfins e Espargo

Santa Maria da Feira

União das freguesias de Santa Maria da Feira, Travanca, Sanfins e Espargo

Taste brioche towers, tenth-century pots and torch-lit processions in Aveiro’s most theatrical fregu

Vale

Santa Maria da Feira

Vale

São Sebastião’s gilded church, abandoned mills and midnight fogaça bake in Aveiro’s hidden parish

Vila Maior

Santa Maria da Feira

Vila Maior

Taste saffron fogaceiras, grill vintage beef, hike moss-clad mills in this Feira village

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