Guarda

Trancoso

Discover the 21 parishes that make up the municipality of Trancoso, Guarda district.

21 Parishes

8,413 Inhabitants

673m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Trancoso

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

União das freguesias de Trancoso (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Souto Maior

3,191 inh.

Tamanhos

175 inh.

União das freguesias de Vila Franca das Naves e Feital

876 inh.

Moimentinha

173 inh.

Póvoa do Concelho

248 inh.

União das freguesias de Vale do Seixo e Vila Garcia

186 inh.

Cótimos

188 inh.

Cogula

168 inh.

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

Parishes
of Trancoso

21 parishes

Trancoso

Aldeia Nova

Granite lanes, 1537 church silver, ridge-top pilgrim path—October fires crackle.

276 685m

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Castanheira

From spiny burr to DOP gold, the 709-metre ritual of Trancoso’s tiniest grove

165 710m

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Cogula

Above Guarda’s plateau, slate walls funnel Atlantic gusts into stone cottages and lamb-fat air.

168 604m

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Cótimos

Stone lanes, smokehouses and shepherds keep this Trancoso parish alive above the clouds

188 469m

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Fiães

Cistercian stones, fading pilgrim cistern and DOP chestnut groves in Guarda’s emptiest parish.

181 738m

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Granja

Serra-ridge village of 109 souls, rye terraces and oak-smoke, home to lava-soft DOP cheese

109 588m

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Guilheiro

126 souls, 1,367 hectares of chestnut, goat bells and frost-scented smoke

126 864m

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Moimentinha

Stone mills, chestnut groves and four EU-stamped delicacies lace a 173-soul plateau village.

173 564m

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Moreira de Rei

At 796 m, this Guarda hamlet offers DOP chestnuts, silent pastures and two houses to sleep in

411 797m

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Palhais

Echoing gates, 710-m stream, granite calvaries; a Trancoso parish that moved banks for straw lofts.

154 711m

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Póvoa do Concelho

Walk the Via Lusitana, taste shale-aged cheese, hear boots echo on 594 m granite

248 594m

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Reboleiro

Sheep outnumber folk in this wind-scoured Beira village where Serra cheese melts on rye

247 667m

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Rio de Mel

Granite troughs, thistle-cheese pantries and 279 villagers who still plough by ox in Trancoso’s sky-

279 709m

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Tamanhos

In Trancoso’s edge-village, cheese cures in earth-scented cellars while rye fields outnumber folk

175 795m

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Trancoso

União das freguesias de Freches e Torres

Freches e Torres hides Iberian boar paths, locked baroque chapels and weekend-only kid feasts

450 606m

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Trancoso

União das freguesias de Torre do Terrenho, Sebadelhe da Serra e Terrenho

Torre do Terrenho, Sebadelhe da Serra e Terrenho guard watch-tower ruins, goat-only Fridays and lock

345 779m

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Trancoso

União das freguesias de Trancoso (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Souto Maior

Walk the 2.2 m gates, hear the 1718 bell, taste chanfana in Portugal’s highest walled town

3K 859m

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Trancoso

União das freguesias de Vale do Seixo e Vila Garcia

Granite boulders sing above Vila Garcia, where Roman bridges carry goat bells and chapel doors open

186 567m

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União das freguesias de Vila Franca das Naves e Feital

Share altitude, vines, chestnuts and wood-fired goat crackling in Trancoso’s twin Beira hamlets

876 704m

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União das freguesias de Vilares e Carnicães

Where Serra da Broca splits Mondego from Douro, shepherds still tread transhumance paths

307 471m

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Valdujo

Stone hamlets, whey-fresh Serra cheese and a 3-km ridge walk above Trancoso

158 655m

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Trancoso

União das freguesias de Trancoso (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Souto Maior

Tamanhos

União das freguesias de Vila Franca das Naves e Feital

Moimentinha

Póvoa do Concelho

União das freguesias de Vale do Seixo e Vila Garcia

Cótimos

Cogula

Aldeia Nova

Castanheira

Cogula

Cótimos

Fiães

Granja

Guilheiro

Moimentinha

Moreira de Rei

Palhais

Póvoa do Concelho

Reboleiro

Rio de Mel

Tamanhos

União das freguesias de Freches e Torres

União das freguesias de Torre do Terrenho, Sebadelhe da Serra e Terrenho

União das freguesias de Trancoso (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Souto Maior

União das freguesias de Vale do Seixo e Vila Garcia

União das freguesias de Vila Franca das Naves e Feital

União das freguesias de Vilares e Carnicães

Valdujo

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