Pousada simple and familiar, especially targeted to the younger ones, in the mining village of Cabeço do Pião. The House was built in 1934, running as a mess hall, where dozens of employees of mines. Offers four bedrooms, kitchen, lounge and toy library. From here, you can visit the old mines would wash the Panasqueira, some villages of shale and the Paleolithic cave figures do Zêzere.

In the Valley of the Mondego and in the middle of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, you will find the Quinta do Seixo, an ancient agricultural property dating from the 18th century recently restored. Offers five double rooms with private bathroom and views of the Valley. Close to the river beach of the village Viçosa (awarded with blue flag), is the perfect place to enjoy the time in tune with nature, its people and traditions.

This Rural Hotel is surrounded by about ten thousand square meters of magnificent gardens and a refreshing swimming pool of fallen border. Is situated on a farm whose buildings dating from the 18th century, having served as summer residence of the Archbishop of Évora. While maintaining its classic style, and surrounded by olive trees with more than three hundred years, impressed by the combination of good taste and modernity.

Garden set on a place where the Convento de São Francisco used to be, from which remains only the marble blazonry with the arms of Franciscans and the kingdom of Portugal, exposed in one of the grassed areas of the garden. Here are some works of art namely two statues and three busts. There is also a small lake with swans, ducks, fishes and an auditorium where several cultural activities take place.

The views it offers over the historic area of Castelo Branco and the region greatly reward the effort required to reach it. It is located close to the Castle and opened in 1941, built to “hide” the water supply tanks and later reclassified during the Polis program. The garden benches and shadows invite you to take a well-deserved rest, while contemplating the panoramic view that goes from Serra da Estrela to the border.

Between Peso da Régua and Pinhão, exit at Covalinhas to reach the top of São Leonardo and its chapel. From this site, known for having inspired Miguel Torga, you can glimpse the Douro Valley. The river, far below, flowing slowly toward its mouth, the rugged slopes and sharp peaks, and the verdant greenery of the nearby vineyards, which try to disguise the prevailing grayness.

In this park located at an altitude of 900 meters, you can observe the flora and fauna of the forest originating in Madeira, the Laurissilva Forest, as well as trees from the temperate regions of Europe, Asia and America. In addition to a picnic area and a parking lot, there is the Queimadas shelter house, which maintains the original characteristics of the typical Santana houses with their thatched roofs. It is halfway to Pico Ruivo, the highest point on the island.

A medieval mountain castle with schist walls. Inside, it has a quadrangular tower and a single-nave church with a narrower chancel and bell tower, the Church of Saint John the Baptist. The castle was abandoned for centuries and was only rebuilt in 1998. The tower and some sections of the schist wall remain from the original monument. The founding of this fortification is attributed to Sertorius. It was rebuilt by Count Henry and, in 1174, was donated by his son to the Hospitallers.

Fortified village located in a small shed at the bottom of the East mound of monte da Croa stump. It is a rugged spur where noticeable faint traces of a line of walls and a deep moat from the West side, currently used as a path. Inside are ceramic fragments of Roman chronology and indigenous. It is believed that was associated with the Castro of Croa stump, being possibly later and occupation also in the Roman era.

Castro dating back to the Bronze age, more exactly from the 7th century BC. This is located in a hilly elevation, on top of which stands a chapel of Oracle to Nossa Senhora da Guia. At the same site were also found archaeological remains denoting the existence of a fortified village. Of the latter, very little can be seen because it was grounded in 1995, during the construction of an access road.