Guarda

Sabugal

Discover the 30 parishes that make up the municipality of Sabugal, Guarda district.

30 Parishes

11,280 Inhabitants

797m Avg. Altitude

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The Route of Sabugal

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

União das freguesias do Sabugal e Aldeia de Santo António

2,604 inh.

Quintas de São Bartolomeu

171 inh.

Águas Belas

167 inh.

União das freguesias de Pousafoles do Bispo, Pena Lobo e Lomba

390 inh.

Bendada

473 inh.

Sortelha

320 inh.

União das freguesias de Santo Estêvão e Moita

327 inh.

Malcata

322 inh.

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

Parishes
of Sabugal

30 parishes

Sabugal

Águas Belas

Remote Sabugal parish of 167 souls threaded by ice-cold mountain water amid wolf-country silence

167 824m

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Aldeia da Ponte

262 souls, one nail-less bullring, a granite bridge where smugglers once hurried

262 811m

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Aldeia do Bispo

Chanfana stew, Roman bridge, shale pools—village life in Guarda’s hidden schist corner

239 959m

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Aldeia Velha

At 851 m, granite lanes echo with capeia drums and chouriço smoke in Sabugal’s high border village.

413 851m

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Alfaiates

Walk wolf-country lanes, unlock a 13th-century chapel, eat wood-fired kid beneath schist roofs

360 853m

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Baraçal

Walk lynx tracks from this 747 m Sabugal hamlet to Malcata’s cliffs, then eat kid goat in nearby Sab

208 748m

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Bendada

In this border parish of Sabugal, Capeia Arraiana turns granite streets into a living bullring every

473 569m

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Bismula

Where rye terraces cling to 813 m and bulls rule August

190 813m

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Casteleiro

Dawn wood-smoke over Casteleiro’s cliff-edge roofs, wine-scented kitchens, January ox-dance & lynx-h

311 669m

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Cerdeira

Sculptors and ceramicists revived this Serra da Lousã hamlet after it flat-lined in the 1990s

188 802m

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Fóios

At 975 m this granite hamlet keeps Atlantic oaks, goat-fed thyme smoke and eagle-owl nights.

310 976m

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Malcata

Granite ridge, lynx-haunted woods and a village whose 322 souls keep time by church bells.

322 808m

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Nave

At 814 m on the Sabugal plateau, Nave trades traffic for church bells and Malcata eagles

230 814m

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Quadrazais

In Guarda’s loneliest parish, one May bull-run awakens 380 souls and centuries-old borderland pride

380 828m

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Quintas de São Bartolomeu

Taste warm topaz oil, hear bulls pound granite lanes, swim dragonfly pools in Sabugal

171 787m

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Rapoula do Côa

Swim the Côa’s sandy banks, sip spring water, dance August nights in a Guarda village reborn

268 723m

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Rebolosa

At 802 m, join the blue-ticket scrum for chouriço, stone ovens and a vanished Côa valley

205 803m

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Rendo

Hear hoofbeats echo off granite cottages in a tiny Sabugal border village that still wrestles bulls

212 734m

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Sortelha

Walk 13th-century walls where 32 souls guard Templar crosses and Manueline stone

320 795m

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Souto

Granite arches, 14th-century church and crackling kid: tiny Souto guards Guarda’s quietest corner

1K 904m

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União das freguesias de Aldeia da Ribeira, Vilar Maior e Badamalos

Easter chants, Bronze-Age petroglyphs and lynx-haunted ridges above the Côa headwaters

266 796m

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União das freguesias de Lajeosa e Forcalhos

Where capeia thunder meets clay-oven kid goat on the granite-shale frontier of Malcata

219 877m

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União das freguesias de Pousafoles do Bispo, Pena Lobo e Lomba

Sabugal’s merged border parishes echo with Capeia bulls, Roman shards and 1940s tungsten tunnels

390 855m

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União das freguesias de Ruvina, Ruivós e Vale das Éguas

Granite hamlets share silence, wood-smoke and a single cock-crow above Sabugal

195 761m

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União das freguesias de Santo Estêvão e Moita

Santo Estêvão and Moita share schist ridges, wolf-haunted Malcata trails and summer bull-running rit

327 613m

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União das freguesias de Seixo do Côa e Vale Longo

Walk schist lanes, hear wolf-country silence, taste Dão wine at Capeia Arraiana

182 721m

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União das freguesias do Sabugal e Aldeia de Santo António

Stone border town where Iberian lynx still prowl beneath a five-sided castle tower

3K 766m

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Vale de Espinho

Bull-dust streets, lynx-haunted ridges and crackling roast kid at 900 m in Sabugal’s high village

308 896m

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Vila Boa

Above Guarda, schist alleys echo three-o’clock bells while French vans hunt a vanished centre.

238 770m

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Vila do Touro

Jesuit gold, August bull-runs and vine-smoked goat at 789 m in Beira’s quietest village.

177 789m

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Sabugal

União das freguesias do Sabugal e Aldeia de Santo António

Quintas de São Bartolomeu

Águas Belas

União das freguesias de Pousafoles do Bispo, Pena Lobo e Lomba

Bendada

Sortelha

União das freguesias de Santo Estêvão e Moita

Malcata

Águas Belas

Aldeia da Ponte

Aldeia do Bispo

Aldeia Velha

Alfaiates

Baraçal

Bendada

Bismula

Casteleiro

Cerdeira

Fóios

Malcata

Nave

Quadrazais

Quintas de São Bartolomeu

Rapoula do Côa

Rebolosa

Rendo

Sortelha

Souto

União das freguesias de Aldeia da Ribeira, Vilar Maior e Badamalos

União das freguesias de Lajeosa e Forcalhos

União das freguesias de Pousafoles do Bispo, Pena Lobo e Lomba

União das freguesias de Ruvina, Ruivós e Vale das Éguas

União das freguesias de Santo Estêvão e Moita

União das freguesias de Seixo do Côa e Vale Longo

União das freguesias do Sabugal e Aldeia de Santo António

Vale de Espinho

Vila Boa

Vila do Touro

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