Cold Land, Warm Soul

Bragança

Trás-os-Montes mountains, communal villages and Celtic traditions. Bragança preserves an ancestral Portugal in the heart of the Montesinho Natural Park.

226 Parishes

12 Municipalities

123K Inhabitants

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The Grand Route
of Bragança

A journey through the most emblematic municipalities

1

União das freguesias de Sé, Santa Maria e Meixedo

União das freguesias de Sé, Santa Maria e Meixedo

Walk Romanesque halls, hear 800-year rain drip inside the keep at 661 m.

2

Vinhais

Vinhais

Oak-smoked presunto, granite keeps and mountain trails above Spain’s border.

3

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Follow wood-smoke through Trás-os-Montes to a town knighted in chestnuts and crackling kid

4

Mirandela

Mirandela

Romanesque gate, vanished castle and 15th-century sausage secrets in Trás-os-Montes

5

União das freguesias de Vila Flor e Nabo

União das freguesias de Vila Flor e Nabo

Granite arch, river-swing silence, almond snowfields—this is Vila Flor e Nabo

6

Torre de Moncorvo

Torre de Moncorvo

Torre de Moncorvo

Whitewashed lanes, azulejo-clad churches and 200,000 almond trees crown this Trás-os-Montes ridge to

7

Alfândega da Fé

Alfândega da Fé

Alfândega da Fé

Granite balconies, gorge-edge miradouros and February blossom snowfields above the Sabor

8

União das freguesias de Mogadouro, Valverde, Vale de Porco e Vilar de Rei

União das freguesias de Mogadouro, Valverde, Vale de Porco e Vilar de Rei

Mogadouro-Vilar de Rei parish union: castle keep, Caretos’ winter roar, almond terraces above Douro

9

União das freguesias de Freixo de Espada à Cinta e Mazouco

Freixo de Espada à Cinta

União das freguesias de Freixo de Espada à Cinta e Mazouco

Dawn concertinas echo above Palaeolithic horses and Roman mule steps in Portugal’s easternmost villa

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Carrazeda de Ansiães

Carrazeda de Ansiães

Carrazeda de Ansiães

Granite alleys, 1952 bakery scent and tractors dripping Touriga must—village life at 733 m.

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All Municipalities
of Bragança

12 municipalities to explore

Alfândega da Fé

Alfândega da Fé

12 parishes

Bragança

Bragança

39 parishes

Carrazeda de Ansiães

Carrazeda de Ansiães

14 parishes

Freixo de Espada à Cinta

Freixo de Espada à Cinta

4 parishes

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Macedo de Cavaleiros

30 parishes

Miranda do Douro

Miranda do Douro

13 parishes

Mirandela

Mirandela

30 parishes

Mogadouro

Mogadouro

21 parishes

Torre de Moncorvo

Torre de Moncorvo

13 parishes

Vila Flor

Vila Flor

14 parishes

Vimioso

Vimioso

10 parishes

Vinhais

Vinhais

26 parishes

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