Guarda

Celorico da Beira

Discover the 16 parishes that make up the municipality of Celorico da Beira, Guarda district.

16 Parishes

6,583 Inhabitants

538m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Celorico 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 Celorico (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Vila Boa do Mondego

União das freguesias de Celorico (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Vila Boa do Mondego

2,067 inh.

Casas do Soeiro

Casas do Soeiro

468 inh.

União das freguesias de Cortiçô da Serra, Vide entre Vinhas e Salgueirais

União das freguesias de Cortiçô da Serra, Vide entre Vinhas e Salgueirais

362 inh.

Prados

Prados

146 inh.

Linhares

Linhares

213 inh.

Carrapichana

Carrapichana

180 inh.

Mesquitela

Mesquitela

203 inh.

União das freguesias de Rapa e Cadafaz

União das freguesias de Rapa e Cadafaz

242 inh.

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

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Parishes
of Celorico da Beira

16 parishes

Baraçal

Celorico da Beira

Baraçal

Granite manors, vanished gallows and mountain cheese in Celorico da Beira’s hill village

Carrapichana

Celorico da Beira

Carrapichana

At 521 m in Serra da Estrela, Carrapichana hosts Portugal’s most fragrant lamb weekend each October.

Casas do Soeiro

Celorico da Beira

Casas do Soeiro

Paris wages built pastel villas where rye once grew, 1217 stone still murmurs

Forno Telheiro

Celorico da Beira

Forno Telheiro

Celorico da Beira’s hidden hamlet where lime-kiln ghosts scent the air

Lajeosa do Mondego

Celorico da Beira

Lajeosa do Mondego

Eight-century ford clings to the Mondego, wood-smoke curling above baroque gold and chanfana pots.

Linhares

Celorico da Beira

Linhares

Climb the 13th-century keep, taste Serra cheese at 715 m, then watch paragliders leap from the same

Maçal do Chão

Celorico da Beira

Maçal do Chão

Wander empty trails, knock for DOP cheese, sleep by glacial river beach in Celorico’s forgotten haml

Mesquitela

Celorico da Beira

Mesquitela

Oak-smoke drifts above granite cottages where 300-year-old ovens bake gossip into crusty loaves.

Minhocal

Celorico da Beira

Minhocal

Leaf-cutting ants, Roman bridge, 12 °C spring—tiny Minhocal swapped hillsides and kept its stories.

Prados

Celorico da Beira

Prados

Celorico da Beira’s loftiest parish hides Iron-Age forts, smoke-curling ovens and forests you can ta

Ratoeira

Celorico da Beira

Ratoeira

Olive-rooted hamlet, slate-roofed gossip and snow-smoke under Estrela’s shoulder

União das freguesias de Açores e Velosa

Celorico da Beira

União das freguesias de Açores e Velosa

Celorico da Beira’s twin parishes cradle Visigothic slabs, Iron-Age cliffs and Serra da Estrela chee

União das freguesias de Celorico (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Vila Boa do Mondego

Celorico da Beira

União das freguesias de Celorico (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Vila Boa do Mondego

Serra da Estrela views, thistle-curd cheese and torch-lit medieval parades in Celorico da Beira–Vila

União das freguesias de Cortiçô da Serra, Vide entre Vinhas e Salgueirais

Celorico da Beira

União das freguesias de Cortiçô da Serra, Vide entre Vinhas e Salgueirais

Cortiçô da Serra, Vide entre Vinhas & Salgueirais keep 800 years of cork smoke, war hoofprints and g

União das freguesias de Rapa e Cadafaz

Celorico da Beira

União das freguesias de Rapa e Cadafaz

In Celorico da Beira’s merged parish, November olive burns throats, ants rerouted a church and 800 e

Vale de Azares

Celorico da Beira

Vale de Azares

Meet the 328 villagers who press liquid gold, ladle Serra cheese and call themselves “clod-hoppers”.

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