Bragança

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Discover the 30 parishes that make up the municipality of Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança district.

30 Parishes

14,251 Inhabitants

596m Avg. Altitude

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The Route of Macedo de Cavaleiros

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

Macedo de Cavaleiros

6,137 inh.

União das freguesias de Castelãos e Vilar do Monte

457 inh.

Grijó

351 inh.

Vale Benfeito

159 inh.

Carrapatas

153 inh.

Cortiços

237 inh.

União das freguesias de Bornes e Burga

342 inh.

Chacim

227 inh.

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

Parishes
of Macedo de Cavaleiros

30 parishes

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Amendoeira

Schist walls, mirrored orchards and slow-smoked sausages at 772 m in Trás-os-Montes

400 772m

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Arcas

Mist lifts above stone tanks, accordion-led feasts & oak-smoked chouriça in Arcas, Bragança’s tinies

215 470m

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Carrapatas

Medieval tick-land village, 153 souls, 1689 calvary, Manueline pillory, olive-oil December

153 544m

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Chacim

Nine-century watchtower, smoke-cured sausages, Bastardo wine: northern Portugal’s hidden village

227 486m

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Cortiços

At 475 m, Macedo de Cavaleiros hamlet keeps 237 voices, stone paths & DOP cheese alive

237 476m

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Corujas

Above the Douro basin, the village of Corujas keeps its sausage-scented schist heart beating

143 668m

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Ferreira

Village of 192 souls, 573 m high, where Azibo’s Jurassic shore meets smokehouse scents

192 574m

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Grijó

Village life revolves around chestnut fires, baroque chapel bells and Friday kid goat in Bragança’s

351 591m

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Lagoa

Where a dam drowned olive terraces and 271 souls now live between water and granite sky

271 505m

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Lamalonga

River-cooled hamlet in Macedo de Cavaleiros where winter fog outstays spring and DOP chestnuts crack

339 448m

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Lamas

At 765 m, Macedo de Cavaleiros' smallest parish keeps corn in stilted vaults and winter in the lungs

238 765m

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Lombo

Echoing Entrudo drums, 1753 gold altars and blood-red maize seed vaults on a chestnut ridge.

304 487m

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

6K 561m

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Morais

Macedo village where no one leaves, maize rattles 700 yrs, São Pedro beans smoke

530 625m

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Olmos

Stone cottages, cork-oak shadows and Bisaro-pig feasts on Portugal’s starlit plateau.

149 624m

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Peredo

Terrincho cheese, smoked chouriça and lake-mirrored silence in Macedo de Cavaleiros

191 535m

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Salselas

Moorland village in Bragança where goat crackles and oak-smoke flavours winter

284 587m

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Sezulfe

At 668 m in remote Trás-os-Montes, wolves survive only in cafés, goat roasts nine hours in a wood-ov

271 669m

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Talhas

In Talhas, Macedo de Cavaleiros, only 256 souls share 4,380 ha of olive groves and smoke-cured PGI h

256 493m

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União das freguesias de Ala e Vilarinho do Monte

Smoke-cured sausage, €8 Terrincho cheese and wolf-printed trails at 594 m

412 594m

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União das freguesias de Bornes e Burga

12th-century tilted church, wind-launch ridge, zero-café trails—Macedo’s high plateau twins

342 831m

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União das freguesias de Castelãos e Vilar do Monte

Granite hamlets share slate roofs, Templar echoes and chestnut-scented winters in Trás-os-Montes.

457 583m

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União das freguesias de Espadanedo, Edroso, Murçós e Soutelo Mourisco

Six souls per km² share schist ridges, osprey skies & black-clay *cozido*

386 871m

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União das freguesias de Podence e Santa Combinha

February’s schist alleys erupt with rainbow-fringed Caretos, sin-burning bonfires and Azibo’s cool s

258 613m

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União das freguesias de Talhinhas e Bagueixe

Where two plateau villages share a bell, a feast and rye-scented air above Macedo de Cavaleiros

262 586m

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Vale Benfeito

Hear 159 voices echo across granite alleys, Azibo glass and Ordovician stone.

159 663m

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Vale da Porca

Wake with the baker’s pão misto, walk Moorish thyme-scented tracks above nameless stream

239 569m

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Vale de Prados

Granite scarps, 472 souls, UNESCO schist and a reservoir the locals call “the beach”

472 640m

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Vilarinho de Agrochão

Winter mist clings to schist houses while olive oil flows at Lagar Muralhas in this Trás-os-Montes h

216 493m

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Vinhas

Rooted in schist terraces, Vinhas keeps its barefoot harvest and fading pulse alive.

160 569m

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Macedo de Cavaleiros

União das freguesias de Castelãos e Vilar do Monte

Grijó

Vale Benfeito

Carrapatas

Cortiços

União das freguesias de Bornes e Burga

Chacim

Amendoeira

Arcas

Carrapatas

Chacim

Cortiços

Corujas

Ferreira

Grijó

Lagoa

Lamalonga

Lamas

Lombo

Macedo de Cavaleiros

Morais

Olmos

Peredo

Salselas

Sezulfe

Talhas

União das freguesias de Ala e Vilarinho do Monte

União das freguesias de Bornes e Burga

União das freguesias de Castelãos e Vilar do Monte

União das freguesias de Espadanedo, Edroso, Murçós e Soutelo Mourisco

União das freguesias de Podence e Santa Combinha

União das freguesias de Talhinhas e Bagueixe

Vale Benfeito

Vale da Porca

Vale de Prados

Vilarinho de Agrochão

Vinhas

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