Renaissance and Baroque church to present a porch supported by arches back full to surround the ship. The interior has a single nave, a choir-high with balustrade, a pulpit foursquare and traces of frescoes with the figure of a friar. Featured for the side altars in the gilded triumphal arch, decorated with polychrome painting.

This is one of the landmarks of the municipality of Paredes de Coura. A calm and bucolic place, with excellent fresh water from the Coura River, although it is cold. It has a sports field and a café-restaurant. During the summer, with the Paredes de Coura Festival, the beach is full of rock music lovers.

Petiscaria Preguiça, in Vila Nova de Foz Coa, hides in the Douro valley, overlooking the river, and is much more than a place just for snacking. Here serve up meals, full of regional flavors, highlighting what the river, so very close, has to offer.

The village, with origins in an old hillfort occupied by the Romans, seen from afar is an authentic fortress, surrounded by a wall and two turrets at the entrance. However, Castelo Mendo is, nowadays, practically doomed to abandonment. Its population, which barely exceeds one hundred and a half inhabitants, is dedicated to livestock and agriculture. However, if today the village's location (800 meters above sea level) is an obstacle to growth, in the past this would have been the crucial factor in its development and guarantee of the defense of the lands on the left bank of the Coa River. …

Built in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 17th century, this quadrangular castle retains only the original walls and low turrets. It features a carved stone portal, forming a pediment with two spires and a crown. The courtyard has a central cistern without water, two abandoned cannons, and buildings all around.

Monumental Church, sober, unadorned exaggerated. The plan is rectangular, has different covers and inside are 2 floors. Began to be built in 1700 and was completed in 1741. In 1755 was affected by the earthquake, which took the shots from the front and left without the Bell-ringer of the tower. In 1988 he became Foundation.

The proximity of the water table of the Lagoa de Albufeira provides a refreshing view while having your meal. The gastronomic specialities are the stew and the iroses stew, mussels and clams and various kinds of fresh fish (without forgetting the horse mackerel and sardines at the time). For dessert there's pudding and homemade rice pudding.

Building ordered by D. Luís de Meneses, lord of Pancas and Ponte da Barca, foreiro of the Comendadeiras de Santos-o-Novo in the second half of the XVII century. In the middle of the XIX century it was sold to the judge of the high court José Pereira Palha. In 1968 the City council buys it to the Van Zeller family. It is a manor house with open yard for the carriages and the noble staircase. Inside there’s a small room decorated with rural motifs – the frescos room – dated probably from the XIX century, the chapel, the gardens and …

The perfect Alliance between the lands of Alentejo and the charm of modernity emerges the MonReal. To bet on the preservation of traditions, on the quality of its products and services in the nature of family attendance are the commitments that this recent space assumes. Here, colour and comfort are key elements of architecture and decoration. You can taste the products of the region, through the re-creation of ancestral dishes and the creation of new delicacies, like the turnedó of crocodile and Kangaroo loaf, always in the company of the famous NECTARS of the region. It also has a gourmet …

It is believed that the tower and the church were constructed on the 13th century. The church with longitudinal plan was reconstructed by the end on the 17th century. On the tower it stands out the door stonework, the niche, the round opening and the bell tower which is an older construction. On the church it stands out the pulpit settled in volute corbels and for the vault with stylized vegan motifs.