The best MTB trails around Seixezelo

It is located in Vila Nova de Gaia, just across the Douro River from Porto's historic center. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 and is a National Monument. It is notable for its circular church and cloister, unique in Portugal, inspired by the Church of Santa Maria Redonda in Rome.

The trail climbs to the Reboredo hill; it's technical because it has a lot of loose rocks and mud.

It is the abundant and varied landscape that most impresses in Couce, a village in Valongo bathed by the Ferreira River and located between two mountain ranges, Santa Justa and Pias. In this part of the Porto district, the houses beg to be photographed with their ancient stone walls, showcasing the most typical and traditional aspects of the genuine Portuguese rural architectural tradition, and the cobbled paths invite slow walks, allowing one to identify, here and there, the marks of the past left in constructions with quartzite blocks from the local mining and schist exploitation. The irregular walls and fences of the village fascinate the visitor with this particular configuration, resulting from the use of materials that were applied in the constructions as they were collected directly from nature, without prior treatment. In this analysis of the genuineness of Couce's architecture, however, there are other works that deserve attention, the oldest of which is the Roman bridge that persists in the village, almost intact, since the territory was occupied by explorers of the Italian empire. From a much more recent period is the village chapel, as well as its haystacks, which have served as support for the community's agricultural activities, and its threshing floors, which function as a space for socializing among the population, who threshed corn there and shared news from the land. These habits and customs encourage discovering more of the surrounding landscape, motivating walks along the green and cool banks of the Ferreira River, where it is still possible to imagine how the nooks and crannies of Couce led the Romans and their slaves to settle in the area. From those times, moreover, remains the housing layout that is still identified in this Village of Portugal, with the houses very close to each other, so that, in the context of the geographical isolation of the village, the residents could better defend themselves in case of external threats.

old house with traces of the last century

The Chapel of Our Lady of Good Fortune and Saint Anthony is a place of worship located in Guisande, Porto, where the Festa do Viso (Visor Festival) is celebrated annually in honor of these two devotees. The festival and the chapel have deep roots in local tradition and are a time of unity for the Guisande community.

This huge pillory is in the cathedral square.

Right next to the bridge.

Vímara Peres (Spanish variant of the name: Vímara Pérez; * c. 820; † 873) was a Galician warlord of noble descent. He served in the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. As a vassal of King Alfonso III of Asturias, he was tasked with reconquering territories in the Duero Valley from the Moors, who had conquered Visigothic Hispania in the 8th century. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADmara_Peres