In this traditional village of the Lands of Barroso, one can still view typical cul covered houses. A special note to the church and the ruins of the beneditin convent of Saint Maria, a national monument, whose existence may date back to the 9th century and still has the romanesque portico of the old church by the convent. Near Pitões das Júnias there is a natural waterfall of rare beauty.

Localizada no vale do Cávado, esta pequena e pitoresca aldeia subsiste dos férteis terrenos agrícolas que servem o setor agropecuário.

A village on the border, with granite houses, famed for its monumental oven. This communal oven is made o stone and has walls reinforced by counterforts. On the other side of the Tourém dam it is Spain.

This is an area located north of the serra do Larouco intermediate basin of the River, Rooms in Galicia (Spain), in the current province of Ourense which borders Tourém. His institution was connected, since the late Middle Ages, the castle of Piconha, and later to the House of Braganza. With an area of approximately 27 km2, had an organization itself and was not connected or Portugal or Spain. Its inhabitants had the privilege of being able to give asylum to the escapees of Portuguese or Spanish justice, to provide soldiers for a Kingdom or the other, not to pay taxes, …

Village inserted in the Peneda-Gerês National Park, characterized by its granite houses. Currently, only three families reside at this location, and is almost abandoned. There is a huge number of abandoned houses, filled with dense vegetation which rises through the granitic structure. Managed to keep, however, the beauty of the village, where is only allowed the construction of buildings in granite.

The few dozens South of Chapel of SR. dos Aflitos, in a sheltered, between the ribeira chã de Lamas of Miro and Corga of Hanged remain visible traces of old buildings. Are still evident several houses of rectangular plant and foursquare, in ruins, some of them with more than half a meter tall. Part of the structures were based on granitic outcropping. Access was made by a road coming from North empedrado. The plague is one of the reasons for the abandonment of this site, it is said that part of the inhabitants died and the remaining founded the village …

Typical village in the National Park of Peneda-Gerês, framed in a granite frame, on the hillside of serra. His wealth, with much dark granitic as beautiful, gives this site a unique and very attractive mysticism. One of the ex-libris of this location is the so-called Bolideira Stone, a rock that rocks the slight jerk of the human hand.

Typical village located between Cabril and Paradela, hidden among towering granite monoliths, which overlap with the housing. The locale remains conserved the typology of rural buildings encrusted in rocks, which give them shelter and protection.

It belongs to the group of traditional villages of Montalegre and is includ in the Artisans Route.