Castelo Branco

Fundão

Discover the 23 parishes that make up the municipality of Fundão, Castelo Branco district.

23 Parishes

26,503 Inhabitants

487m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Fundão

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

União das freguesias de Fundão, Valverde, Donas, Aldeia de Joanes e Aldeia Nova do Cabo

União das freguesias de Fundão, Valverde, Donas, Aldeia de Joanes e Aldeia Nova do Cabo

12,639 inh.

Alcongosta

Alcongosta

416 inh.

Souto da Casa

Souto da Casa

746 inh.

Castelejo

Castelejo

562 inh.

Lavacolhos

Lavacolhos

180 inh.

Silvares

Silvares

968 inh.

Barroca

Barroca

378 inh.

Bogas de Cima

Bogas de Cima

328 inh.

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

02

Parishes
of Fundão

23 parishes

Alcaide

Alcaide

Granite alleys, cherry-white orchards and wood-oven kid in a Beira Interior hideaway

Alcaria

Alcaria

Fundão’s hilltop hamlet wakes to blossom-counting farmers, wood-oven kid and Camino silence.

Alcongosta

Alcongosta

Fundão’s tiny parish wakes to Camino boots, DOP oil presses and cherry-red Cova da Beira harvests

Alpedrinha

Alpedrinha

Granite lanes, palace ghosts & cherry-scented smoke in Gardunha’s ridge-top village

Barroca

Barroca

378 souls, zero souvenir shops—just schist walls, cherry orchards and a Camino bed

Bogas de Cima

Bogas de Cima

Scent of oil, iron-tasting spring, 49 pre-1919 houses clinging to Gardunha’s high ridge

Capinha

Capinha

Queue with villagers at the 1923 communal mill, unlock a chapel for a June picnic, weave a rug and s

Castelejo

Castelejo

Wander Fundão’s hill-perched Castelejo where late cherries blaze against granite and church bells ec

Castelo Novo

Castelo Novo

Hear water trickle through stone before Castelo Novo’s terracotta roofs appear

Enxames

Enxames

Oak-smoked sausages, DOP cherries and schist terraces cling to Fundão’s quietest parish.

Fatela

Fatela

Tramontana wind, 16th-c. church shadows and midnight-black chanfana at 520 m in the Gardunha.

Lavacolhos

Lavacolhos

Beat goat-skin bombos, swim 18 °C river-beach, taste chanfana in 180-strong Lavacolhos

Orca

Orca

Scatter of schist hamlets, cherry orchards and 539 souls between Gardunha and Spain

Pêro Viseu

Pêro Viseu

Slate-scented Fundão hamlet where 80 kg of cherries vanish into five cans and flood-scarred arches s

Silvares

Silvares

Trace Castelo Branco’s legion slabs, sip schist reds at Quinta do Cardal, taste clay-baked chanfana.

Soalheira

Soalheira

In Fundão’s high village, Galega trees, DOP oil and pilgrim footfalls share the same hot light

Souto da Casa

Souto da Casa

Where chestnut boughs creak above terraced valleys and pilgrims tread the quiet Via Lusitana

Telhado

Telhado

Sleep in shale cottages, sip <0.3 % acidity oil, walk pilgrim arrows above Ribeira da Meimoa

Três Povos

Três Povos

Walk the silent Santiago stones, taste oak-smoke kid and cloud-fresh oil in Fundão’s triple hamlet

União das freguesias de Fundão, Valverde, Donas, Aldeia de Joanes e Aldeia Nova do Cabo

União das freguesias de Fundão, Valverde, Donas, Aldeia de Joanes e Aldeia Nova do Cabo

From ox-blood fruit to quartzite ramparts, Cova da Beira’s stitched-together villages live slow and

União das freguesias de Janeiro de Cima e Bogas de Baixo

União das freguesias de Janeiro de Cima e Bogas de Baixo

In Fundão’s forgotten corner, Janeiro de Cima & Bogas de Baixo breathe stone and water

União das freguesias de Póvoa de Atalaia e Atalaia do Campo

União das freguesias de Póvoa de Atalaia e Atalaia do Campo

Whitewashed lanes, olive-scented air and Eugénio de Andrade’s childhood muse in Fundão’s quiet plate

União das freguesias de Vale de Prazeres e Mata da Rainha

União das freguesias de Vale de Prazeres e Mata da Rainha

Follow bell-echoing paths between schist terraces and a 1724 six-spout fountain in Fundão.

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