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Guarda

Guarda

Discover the 43 parishes that make up the municipality of Guarda, Guarda district.

43 Parishes
40,117 Inhabitants
763m Avg. Altitude
Suggested route

The Route of Guarda

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

Guarda 1

Guarda

26,441 inh.

Panoias de Cima 2

Panoias de Cima

568 inh.

Aldeia do Bispo 3

Aldeia do Bispo

198 inh.

Ramela 4

Ramela

181 inh.

João Antão 5

João Antão

126 inh.

Santana da Azinha 6

Santana da Azinha

528 inh.

Adão 7

Adão

258 inh.

Pega 8

Pega

121 inh.

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

02

Parishes
of Guarda

43 parishes
Adão
Guarda

Adão

258 souls, 300-million-year-old cliffs, cheese caves and camino trails above Guarda

258 787m
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Aldeia do Bispo
Guarda

Aldeia do Bispo

Stone lanes climb to shuttered cottages, espigueiros and Via Lusitana pilgrims.

198 817m
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Aldeia Viçosa
Guarda

Aldeia Viçosa

Evening light ignites schist lanes where 267 villagers still trade tomato seeds and stories

267 545m
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Alvendre
Guarda

Alvendre

Guarda village where noon bell, thigh-burning PR4 loop and kid stew still rule the day

186 764m
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Arrifana
Guarda

Arrifana

Slate walls, smoke-cured sausages and Serra da Estrela cheese guard this high stone village

555 881m
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Avelãs da Ribeira
Guarda

Avelãs da Ribeira

Roman paving, chestnut camino and moss-lipped fountains cling to a 604 m Guarda ridge

142 604m
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Benespera
Guarda

Benespera

Guarda’s sky-high hamlet, where slate roofs cling to granite and lamb crackles in wood-fired ovens

281 710m
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Casal de Cinza
Guarda

Casal de Cinza

Custard stone, bonsai oak and sheep bells in Guarda’s loneliest parish

483 850m
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Castanheira
Guarda

Castanheira

In Guarda’s high shale parish, cheese ripens in potato cellars and the Caminho’s lost arrow tests pi

298 805m
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Cavadoude
Guarda

Cavadoude

Lichens, granite wind & goat roast perfume: life on a 498 m Estrela spur

243 499m
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Codesseiro
Guarda

Codesseiro

At 800 m in Serra da Estrela Geopark, 160 souls share shepherd paths, glacial domes and cumin-laced

160 800m
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Faia
Guarda

Faia

Guarda’s cliff-edge hamlet where cattle outvote people and every footpath files a complaint

180 706m
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Famalicão
Guarda

Famalicão

Granite hamlet inside Serra da Estrela where goat tracks outnumber roads and cheese ripens in mounta

458 620m
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Fernão Joanes
Guarda

Fernão Joanes

Walk straight from the village into Serra da Estrela fog, then follow the scent of oak-smoked Serra

186 1099m
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Gonçalo
Guarda

Gonçalo

805 m above Guarda, Roman lanes slice schist hamlets, scenting air with mountain cheese and frost-bi

960 806m
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Gonçalo Bocas
Guarda

Gonçalo Bocas

Barnacled granite roofs, mouth-puckling requeijão and wind-bitten heather at 852 m in the Serra da E

204 853m
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Guarda
Guarda

Guarda

854 m above the Beira plain, Guarda’s granite lanes, triple walls and Gothic cathedral guard the fro

26K 854m
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Jarmelo São Miguel
Guarda

Jarmelo São Miguel

Climb cobbled mule tracks above Guarda where Serra da Estrela cheese matures in rock caves

276 766m
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Jarmelo São Pedro
Guarda

Jarmelo São Pedro

At 846 m, Guarda’s quietest parish reveals Iron-Athillfort, auburn cows and June mist

276 846m
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João Antão
Guarda

João Antão

Open-plenary elections, glacial trails and oak-smoked lamb in Guarda’s highest parish

126 839m
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Maçainhas
Guarda

Maçainhas

Guarda village where muleteers once traded salt for snow, now famed for peppery olive oil and Serra

977 839m
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Marmeleiro
Guarda

Marmeleiro

UNESCO Estrela Geopark village where glacial boulders outnumber people 3:1

297 774m
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Meios
Guarda

Meios

Sheep, hail and a moody café—life on the roof of Guarda where cheese hides behind blue curtains

150 991m
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Panoias de Cima
Guarda

Panoias de Cima

Wind-scoured hamlet in Serra da Estrela, where thistle-set cheese ages below 8 °C

568 851m
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Pega
Guarda

Pega

Tread the 1523 single-arch span over the fog-soft Tâmega, hike trails among cork-oak espigueiros, ta

121 783m
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Pêra do Moço
Guarda

Pêra do Moço

Climb to 816 m for glacial valleys, wood-fired lamb and granite-cooled cheese in Guarda’s hidden par

793 817m
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Porto da Carne
Guarda

Porto da Carne

Schist lanes, Serra cheese and 338 neighbours who invite you to supper

338 452m
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Ramela
Guarda

Ramela

Shepherd trails, glacial scars and thyme-laced cheese at 776 m in Guarda

181 777m
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Santana da Azinha
Guarda

Santana da Azinha

Hike granite escarpments, smell oak-wood ovens and taste Serra da Estrela cheese at 873 m.

528 873m
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Sobral da Serra
Guarda

Sobral da Serra

Granite balconies, chestnut groves and wax-flowered chapels hush Guarda’s high village

213 516m
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União de freguesias de Avelãs de Ambom e Rocamondo
Guarda

União de freguesias de Avelãs de Ambom e Rocamondo

Walk the Inner Way, sip marble-font water, lunch on lamb booked by phone

154 730m
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União de freguesias de Corujeira e Trinta
Guarda

União de freguesias de Corujeira e Trinta

Walk granite levadas, swim 14 °C river-beaches and buy DOP cheese at Trinta’s doorsteps

408 900m
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União de freguesias de Mizarela, Pêro Soares e Vila Soeiro
Guarda

União de freguesias de Mizarela, Pêro Soares e Vila Soeiro

Walk glacial cirques, sip snowmelt fountains, taste DOP cheese in Guarda’s near-empty union

200 687m
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União de freguesias de Pousade e Albardo
Guarda

União de freguesias de Pousade e Albardo

One parish, two hamlets, 214 souls on a high ridge inside Portugal’s Estrela Geopark

214 789m
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União de freguesias de Rochoso e Monte Margarida
Guarda

União de freguesias de Rochoso e Monte Margarida

Stone hamlets fused by glacier-polished granite, Roman waterlines and olive terraces at 770 m.

211 770m
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Vale de Estrela
Guarda

Vale de Estrela

Sheep tracks replace signposts, cheese ripens in stone cellars and 355 souls share Guarda’s rooftop.

355 902m
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Valhelhas
Guarda

Valhelhas

Granite-cold church, glacier-scarred trail, cheese aged in a cellar: Guarda's mountain village 582 m

303 582m
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Vela
Guarda

Vela

Walk silent schist paths, taste DOP Serra cheese in a 423-soul Serra da Estrela village.

423 550m
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Videmonte
Guarda

Videmonte

Guarda village where a 1906 swaying bridge, thistle-rennet cheese and soaring vultures rule the ridg

388 868m
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Vila Cortês do Mondego
Guarda

Vila Cortês do Mondego

Cheese ripened in rock cellars, oak-smoked goat and frost-bitten olives in Guarda’s tiniest parish

283 527m
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Vila Fernando
Guarda

Vila Fernando

Guarda’s ridge-top hamlet crafts Serra da Estrela cheese, grazes commons by 1933 charter and offers

396 815m
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Vila Franca do Deão
Guarda

Vila Franca do Deão

Guarda’s quiet hill parish: Roman trail, oak ridges, café that sells out by 11

134 746m
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Vila Garcia
Guarda

Vila Garcia

Ride the Beira Alta Line to a Guarda border hamlet that swapped valley for ridge in 1250

304 820m
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