Guarda

Fornos de Algodres

Discover the 12 parishes that make up the municipality of Fornos de Algodres, Guarda district.

12 Parishes

4,403 Inhabitants

561m Avg. Altitude

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The Route of Fornos de Algodres

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

Fornos de Algodres

1,433 inh.

Infias

262 inh.

Casal Vasco

218 inh.

Algodres

290 inh.

Matança

215 inh.

União das freguesias de Cortiçô e Vila Chã

166 inh.

Maceira

245 inh.

União das freguesias de Sobral Pichorro e Fuinhas

227 inh.

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

Parishes
of Fornos de Algodres

12 parishes

Fornos de Algodres

Algodres

Feel five centuries of chill in the same grey stone that built church, pillory and palace

290 662m

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Fornos de Algodres

Casal Vasco

Woodsmoke, Serra cheese and 2003 wine served behind half-open doors at 573 m

218 574m

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Figueiró da Granja

Guarda village where oak smoke drifts past the foundlings’ wheel and Serra cheese arrives by tractor

344 469m

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Fornos de Algodres

Granite mills, 32 lime-kilns and a wood-fired goat tradition breathe life into this Beira village.

1K 422m

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Infias

Cobblestone lungs of the Serra da Estrela, where church bells echo across thyme-scented silence.

262 619m

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Maceira

Meet 245 souls, thistle-rennet cheese and crackling kid goat in Guarda’s loftiest village

245 687m

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Matança

Bronze-Age tombs, granite sarcophagi and river-side saints mark this high-plateau village.

215 626m

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Muxagata

São Pedro’s bell still rings over granite churches, wild-boar streams and cardoon-curd Estrela chees

223 373m

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Queiriz

Stone, cheese and starlight in Guarda’s forgotten plateau village

227 694m

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Fornos de Algodres

União das freguesias de Cortiçô e Vila Chã

Romanesque stone and rye-scented lanes link Cortiçô and Vila Chã in Guarda’s highlands

166 679m

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Fornos de Algodres

União das freguesias de Juncais, Vila Ruiva e Vila Soeiro do Chão

Three Guarda villages stitched by river light, schist walls and azulejo echoes

553 442m

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União das freguesias de Sobral Pichorro e Fuinhas

Where Trancoso’s stream murmurs past slate-cheese cellars and 1730 candle-lit chapels

227 487m

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Fornos de Algodres

Fornos de Algodres

Infias

Casal Vasco

Algodres

Matança

União das freguesias de Cortiçô e Vila Chã

Maceira

União das freguesias de Sobral Pichorro e Fuinhas

Algodres

Casal Vasco

Figueiró da Granja

Fornos de Algodres

Infias

Maceira

Matança

Muxagata

Queiriz

União das freguesias de Cortiçô e Vila Chã

União das freguesias de Juncais, Vila Ruiva e Vila Soeiro do Chão

União das freguesias de Sobral Pichorro e Fuinhas

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