Guarda

Aguiar da Beira

Discover the 10 parishes that make up the municipality of Aguiar da Beira, Guarda district.

10 Parishes

5,231 Inhabitants

678m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Aguiar da Beira

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

União das freguesias de Aguiar da Beira e Coruche

União das freguesias de Aguiar da Beira e Coruche

1,785 inh.

União das freguesias de Souto de Aguiar da Beira e Valverde

União das freguesias de Souto de Aguiar da Beira e Valverde

363 inh.

Eirado

Eirado

181 inh.

Carapito

Carapito

423 inh.

Pena Verde

Pena Verde

715 inh.

Dornelas

Dornelas

666 inh.

Forninhos

Forninhos

208 inh.

Cortiçada

Cortiçada

314 inh.

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

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Parishes
of Aguiar da Beira

10 parishes

Carapito

Aguiar da Beira

Carapito

Walk schist lanes to Iberia’s largest dolmen, Manuuelino pillory and sheep-cheese cellars.

Cortiçada

Aguiar da Beira

Cortiçada

Guarda village where granite barns, 1950s Dão vineyards and raw-milk queijarias breathe

Dornelas

Aguiar da Beira

Dornelas

Granite chapels, chestnut woods and communal ovens scent the high-plateaux parish of Dornelas.

Eirado

Aguiar da Beira

Eirado

Guarda’s highest hamlet where thistle-set Serra da Estrela wheels age over oak while broom reclaims

Forninhos

Aguiar da Beira

Forninhos

Walk olive terraces to ruined São Pedro lagar, taste thistle-set Serra da Estrela in sleepy Forninho

Pena Verde

Aguiar da Beira

Pena Verde

Granite ridge village where Dão wine is trodden in stone lagars and cheese is sliced for tractor dri

Pinheiro

Aguiar da Beira

Pinheiro

Granite lanes, thistle-curdled Serra da Estrela cheese and a mill trail through cork oak shade

União das freguesias de Aguiar da Beira e Coruche

Aguiar da Beira

União das freguesias de Aguiar da Beira e Coruche

Manueline doorway, bronze bells, Serra cheese—eight-kilometre loop links two quiet villages.

União das freguesias de Sequeiros e Gradiz

Aguiar da Beira

União das freguesias de Sequeiros e Gradiz

Granite ridges, rye fields and 345 souls in Aguiar da Beira’s sky-high border parish

União das freguesias de Souto de Aguiar da Beira e Valverde

Aguiar da Beira

União das freguesias de Souto de Aguiar da Beira e Valverde

Stone chapels, chestnut woods and vanished saints: everyday sacred in Guarda’s high country

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