Vila Real

Montalegre

Discover the 25 parishes that make up the municipality of Montalegre, Vila Real district.

25 Parishes

9,261 Inhabitants

912m Avg. Altitude

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The Route of Montalegre

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

União das freguesias de Montalegre e Padroso

1,772 inh.

União das freguesias de Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe

273 inh.

União das freguesias de Sezelhe e Covelães

229 inh.

União das freguesias de Paradela, Contim e Fiães

245 inh.

Vila da Ponte

167 inh.

Reigoso

130 inh.

União das freguesias de Venda Nova e Pondras

344 inh.

Salto

1,263 inh.

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

Parishes
of Montalegre

25 parishes

Montalegre

Cabril

Hear frost crackle on 958-metre bogs while oak granaries guard tiny terraced maize in Montalegre’s g

512 959m

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Cervos

In Peneda-Gerês, Cervos wakes to wood-smoke, Maronesa cattle and alheira hanging in granite haze

227 828m

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Chã

Bell at 19:30, €2 vat wine on Saturdays and smoked-duck alheira you can hear sizzle.

701 924m

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Covelo do Gerês

166 souls, granite terraces and a silence you can almost touch

166 622m

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Ferral

700 m above the Cávado, communal-oven smoke drifts over wolf-printed oak woods and UNESCO baldios

293 702m

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Gralhas

Tiny Montalegre village clings to 922 m ridge, echoing with pilgrim boots, church bells and Maronesa

186 922m

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Morgade

Morning mist lifts over silent stone, Maronesa cows and smoke-cured alheira in Montalegre’s high mea

195 963m

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Negrões

132 souls above the clouds, curing alheira in oak smoke and altitude

132 963m

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Outeiro

June frost drifts over granite ridges while Maronesa cattle graze rye terraces in Outeiro.

143 977m

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Pitões das Junias

1 000 m village of 65 slate roofs, frozen waterfall & Cistercian ruins

151 997m

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Reigoso

Granite bridges, Sunday-only coffee and goat stew: Montalegre’s high village lives by the wind

130 879m

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Salto

Granite hamlet at 842 m, its schist fumieros perfume wind-scoured ridges inside Peneda-Gerês.

1K 843m

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Santo André

At 839 m, a slate-roofed hamlet rings its 1834 chapel bell while goat drips over kermes oak.

149 840m

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Sarraquinhos

Mist-wrapped stone hamlet where Maronesa cattle graze and smoke-cured sausages age in oak rooms.

300 898m

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Solveira

Corn loaves crack like ice while Maria do Outeiro turns them with a paddle in the Trás-os-Montes mis

150 851m

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Tourém

Bread ovens glow, Maronesa cattle graze and Spain is a fog-bound footpath away

110 1039m

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União das freguesias de Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe

Cambeses do Rio, Donões, Mourilhe—three hamlets inside Peneda-Gerês where Maronesa cattle graze abov

273 981m

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União das freguesias de Meixedo e Padornelos

1,115 m granite hamlets echo with 600-year charters, ox-drawn shrines and Maronesa beef

265 1116m

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União das freguesias de Montalegre e Padroso

Barroso stronghold at 1,194 m: wolves, oak-smoked alheira, Roman coins in rye fields

2K 1094m

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União das freguesias de Paradela, Contim e Fiães

Glacial ponds, smoke-cured alheira and mountain pilgrimages in Montalegre’s highest parishes

245 936m

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União das freguesias de Sezelhe e Covelães

Barroso IGP smokehouses, Baroque chapels and starlit plateaux above 1,100 m

229 1109m

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União das freguesias de Venda Nova e Pondras

Granite hamlets, Maronesa cattle and Barroso IGP feasts above Gerês

344 924m

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União das freguesias de Viade de Baixo e Fervidelas

Manor keys from the tavern, 30-metre frozen falls, smokehouse alheira in Montalegre’s high hills

695 845m

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União das freguesias de Vilar de Perdizes e Meixide

Wander granite lanes where Roman altars, maize-dry walls & heather smoke still speak

463 781m

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Vila da Ponte

Granite bridge, oak-smoked veal, 17th-century Virgin weeping tiles—Vila da Ponte lives at 809 m.

167 810m

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Montalegre

União das freguesias de Montalegre e Padroso

União das freguesias de Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe

União das freguesias de Sezelhe e Covelães

União das freguesias de Paradela, Contim e Fiães

Vila da Ponte

Reigoso

União das freguesias de Venda Nova e Pondras

Salto

Cabril

Cervos

Chã

Covelo do Gerês

Ferral

Gralhas

Morgade

Negrões

Outeiro

Pitões das Junias

Reigoso

Salto

Santo André

Sarraquinhos

Solveira

Tourém

União das freguesias de Cambeses do Rio, Donões e Mourilhe

União das freguesias de Meixedo e Padornelos

União das freguesias de Montalegre e Padroso

União das freguesias de Paradela, Contim e Fiães

União das freguesias de Sezelhe e Covelães

União das freguesias de Venda Nova e Pondras

União das freguesias de Viade de Baixo e Fervidelas

União das freguesias de Vilar de Perdizes e Meixide

Vila da Ponte

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