Santarém

Alcanena

Discover the 7 parishes that make up the municipality of Alcanena, Santarém district.

7 Parishes

12,472 Inhabitants

189m Avg. Altitude

Suggested route

The Route of Alcanena

Don't visit just one. Here's a route of 7 parishes ordered geographically for a perfect weekend getaway.

União das freguesias de Alcanena e Vila Moreira

União das freguesias de Alcanena e Vila Moreira

4,854 inh.

Bugalhos

Bugalhos

963 inh.

Moitas Venda

Moitas Venda

781 inh.

Monsanto

Monsanto

700 inh.

União das freguesias de Malhou, Louriceira e Espinheiro

União das freguesias de Malhou, Louriceira e Espinheiro

1,633 inh.

Serra de Santo António

Serra de Santo António

633 inh.

Minde

Minde

2,908 inh.

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

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Parishes
of Alcanena

7 parishes

Bugalhos

Bugalhos

Lagar de Varas still presses olives as villagers return from Paris & Porto for harvest toast

Minde

Minde

Baroque bells, weavers’ love-stones and a secret haggle-language linger in Alcanena’s hilltop villag

Moitas Venda

Moitas Venda

Stone lanes, fading mills and olives thick as ink: a Santarém parish ageing in real time.

Monsanto

Monsanto

In Alcanena’s hill-cradled Monsanto, locals live between olive presses, dusty schist lanes and Dona

Serra de Santo António

Serra de Santo António

Watch Egyptian vultures circle above 340 m limestone ridge where limekilns still glow

União das freguesias de Alcanena e Vila Moreira

União das freguesias de Alcanena e Vila Moreira

Limestone amphitheatres, silent Celbi mills and the Alviela’s whisper knit two parishes into one sto

União das freguesias de Malhou, Louriceira e Espinheiro

União das freguesias de Malhou, Louriceira e Espinheiro

Follow the 14 °C river from its cavern to laurel-scented presses and a 17-arch aqueduct beach.

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