The best MTB trails around Degracias

Conímbriga, an ancient city of Lusitania, is the most impressive Roman complex in Portugal, a place where history still breathes among its baths, forum, amphitheater, and uniquely delicate mosaics, such as those in the famous House of Fountains. Although only a small part has been excavated, the grandeur the city held throughout its almost six centuries under Roman rule is evident. The second wall, hastily erected with stone taken from entire buildings, reveals a time of threat and decline, a prelude to the abandonment that followed the Suebian invasions. Today, among fallen columns and pavements that still gleam in the sun, Conímbriga continues to intrigue and amaze, preserving in its ruins the stories that time has almost erased.

The Anços River originates here, at Olhos d’Água da Redinha, and meanders through the Sicó landscape. Fed by the Orão stream, it flows between discreet valleys until it delivers its waters to the Arunca River, near Soure. The spring, a powerful resurgence connected to an underwater cavity of which only 63 meters of depth are known, is one of the great mysteries yet to be revealed in the Sicó-Alvaiázere massif.

The Poio Valley stands as a well-kept secret of the mountains, preserved for centuries by its rugged, steep, wild, and inaccessible geography. Only shepherds and adventurers used to know these paths. Perhaps that is why a rare fauna found refuge here. It is one of the largest fluviokarstic canyons in Portugal, a valley patiently sculpted by water, which left monumental slopes and a breathtaking landscape. To the south lies Poio Velho; to the north, the more famous Poio Novo, two chapters of the same magnificent landscape.

very good and signed!

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Mountain bike trail through the woods. It has some tight curves, up and down ditches, some rocks, but it is pleasant to do.

Ordered to be built by D. Pedro I in the second quarter of the 14th century, with the intention of collecting tributes/taxes owed by the Jews and Moors on St. Martin's Day. This building with Manueline characteristics separated the old town of Pombal, to the east, towards the Castle, from the new town, to the west, towards the Arunca river, serving as a border to what was inside and outside the town's walls. In 1509, during the reign of D. Manuel I, it underwent structural improvements, and he ordered the installation of a mechanical clock and a bell, so that the ringing of the Trindades would always sound at the right time. Around 1776, the Marquis of Pombal had this bell transferred to the Prison building. In 2014 it underwent improvement works, with the aim of welcoming its visitors by making its history known.

Place where every year they replicate the fight against Napoleon