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Guarda

Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Discover the 14 parishes that make up the municipality of Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Guarda district.

14 Parishes
6,304 Inhabitants
475m Avg. Altitude
Suggested route

The Route of Vila Nova de Foz Côa

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

Vila Nova de Foz Côa 1

Vila Nova de Foz Côa

3,101 inh.

Freixo de Numão 2

Freixo de Numão

519 inh.

Seixas 3

Seixas

312 inh.

Numão 4

Numão

210 inh.

Custóias 5

Custóias

191 inh.

Horta 6

Horta

161 inh.

Cedovim 7

Cedovim

284 inh.

Sebadelhe 8

Sebadelhe

215 inh.

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

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Parishes
of Vila Nova de Foz Côa

14 parishes
Almendra
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Almendra

UNESCO twins the Côa Valley carvings with Douro vines in Guarda’s quiet 309-soul plateau.

309 415m
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Castelo Melhor
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Castelo Melhor

Hear silence echo off 13th-century shale ramparts above the Côa’s Palaeolithic engravings

168 420m
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Cedovim
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Cedovim

Sip 60-cent coffee while tractors cross a six-arch bridge and vines sag above the Sabor gorge.

284 447m
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Chãs
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Chãs

Stone-walled Chãs, Guarda, clings to hand-hewn terraces above the Douro, echoing with goat stew, pil

234 433m
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Custóias
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Custóias

Stone, silence and violet wine in a Guarda village of 191 souls

191 567m
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Freixo de Numão
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Freixo de Numão

Sephardic wool-merchants, Roman stones & rosemary-scented kid on a 418 m Douro ridge

519 418m
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Horta
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Horta

Taste 240-pipe stone-pressed red, hike Roman tanks, ring Easter cowbells in Guarda’s hidden Horta.

161 539m
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Muxagata
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Muxagata

A 1609 bell, goat stew at Dona Lurdes’ table and dawn-picked asparagus in a granite-border hamlet ab

267 321m
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Numão
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Numão

Morning light on granite, chestnut steam from Dona Aurora’s pot, Côa gorge below—Numão slows every c

210 563m
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Santa Comba
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Santa Comba

One Romanesque key, 457 m of schist glare, smoked-lard baps before 3—then silence

145 458m
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Sebadelhe
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Sebadelhe

Vila Nova de Foz Côa hamlet where stone bridges, baroque gilt and foot-trod Touriga outlive Bordeaux

215 480m
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Seixas
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Seixas

13th-century charter village in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, still scented with almond and bonfire smoke.

312 460m
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Touça
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Touça

Slate-walled Touça, Guarda, keeps its goat-roast Fridays, torch-lit romaria and €5 pilgrim albergue

188 645m
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Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Walk Palaeolithic rock galleries at sunrise, sip Douro reds at dusk in Portugal’s double-UNESCO vill

3K 482m
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