Rural Portugal | Wandering Portugal

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• Ponte de Lima Travel Guide

  Ponte de Lima is Portugal’s oldest town, with a beautiful historic center to visit.

• Bom Jesus Sanctuary

  Visit Portugal’s most photographed church outside of the town of Braga in the north of Portugal.

• Ancient Rock Art found on Terceira Island

• Rural Portugal and the Farmer's Life

  Interest is growing in the rural life and traditional agriculture. As America has been run out of real farmers by publicly traded industrial crap food corporations, tasty food has also left the building. The profit is in seeing how close these corporations can come to an industrially-modified animal-based tofu—the other white meat. Cheap and tasteless. Food you don’t say grace for, you ask forgiveness. Find out how Portugal is countering this notion…

• Rock Houses in Portugal

  Houses made of huge boulders, Flintstone style, can be found in Monsanto and in the Serra da Estrela mountain range near Manteigas.

• Arouca and Its Geopark

  Arouca Geopark, in Portugal’s Norte region (see: Region Map) was the site of a recent conference on Geotourism in Action.

• Rural Portugal - A Video

  There are compelling reasons to visit the rural villages of Portugal, but the life, as shown in the video, isn’t necessarily slow.

• Aldeias de Magaio - Discover Portugal's Rural Heritage

• Casas do Coro

• Handicrafts and Healthy Food in the Serra de Estrela

  Burel is an old industry given new life by João Tomás at the Casa das Penhas Douradas.