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The Best Attractions In Trancoso

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Trancoso is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The municipality population in 2011 was 9,878, in an area of 361.52 km². The city population is about 3.000. The municipality is located in the District of Guarda, Region Centro, sub region Beira Interior Norte. The present Mayor is Amilcar Salvador. The municipal holiday is May 29. Principal monument: Castle of Trancoso. The municipality is served by the Vila Franca das Naves train station on the Beira Alta line from Pampilhosa to the Spanish border. Trancoso is well known as the place where the 16th century poet and shoemaker António Gonçalves de Bandarra lived and made his prophetic texts. A stat...
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  • 3. Historic Village of Monsanto Monsanto
    The Historic villages of Portugal are a group of 12 villages classified under a 1991 government program called The Historic Villages Program . The aim of the program was to restore and promote a series of ancient villages/human settlements important to the history of Portugal. Starting in 1991 the government included 10 villages located in the Beira Interior in the Historic Villages program: Almeida Castelo Mendo Castelo Novo Castelo Rodrigo Idanha-a-Velha Linhares da Beira Marialva Monsanto Piódão SortelhaAn additional 2 villages were added to the program in 2003: Belmonte Trancoso
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  • 4. Casa de Mateus Vila Real
    The Mateus Palace is a palace located in the civil parish of Mateus, municipality of Vila Real, Portugal. Architect Nicolau Nasoni was involved in the project for the construction of the palace, which took place in the 18th century.
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  • 5. Serra da Estrela Serra Da Estrela
    Serra da Estrela is the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal. Together with the Serra da Lousã it is the westernmost constituent range of the Sistema Central and also one of the highest in the system. It includes mainland Portugal's highest point at 1,993 metres above mean sea level . This point is not a distinctive mountain summit, but rather the highest point in a plateau, being known as Torre . Torre is an unusual summit in that it is accessible by a paved road. The peak has a topographic prominence of 1,204 m and its parent peak is Pico Almanzor, in Spain.The mountain range, situated between the municipalities of Seia, Manteigas, Gouveia, Guarda and Covilhã, is about 100 kilometres long and is 30 km across at its widest point. It is formed from a huge granite ridge that onc...
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  • 8. Castle Sortelha Sabugal
    The Castle of Sortelha (Portuguese: Castelo de Sortelha is a castle in the civil parish of Sortelha in the municipality of Sabugal in the Portuguese Centro region, classified as a National Monument.
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