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Old rural house of 2 floors, restored in 2008 respecting the typical architecture.

Located in the geografique center of Montesinho Natural Park, near all the interesting points and the main accesses to the city of Bragança and the town of Vinhais and the Spanish border.

Average prices: 45 to 60 euros

Special offers: access to the Cepo Verde camping’s swimming pool for the price of €1,5.

Services and comforts:

• Free parking
• Accepts credit cards
• Reservation by means of payment

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• Cancellation without costs
• Pet friendly
• Babysitting

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Description: only ruins remain and last in cloister of Jesuit arcs, admire the monolithic columns, the only ones that resisted a fire that occurred in the 18th century. Current Municipal Garden.

International Douro Natural Park includes the territories of towns such as Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Freixo de Espada á Cinta, Miranda do Douro and Mogadouro, totalizing na área of 85.150 hectares, and encloses the border of Rio Douro. The territory of Miranda of the Douro has the privilege to belong to this park, conferring even more value to it, for it is the habitat chosen by many animal species, also offering ideal conditions for proliferation of certain vegetal species. The landscape of Miranda do Douro’s territory is characterized by declivous walls of rock where Rio Douro assumes a structure of fluvial cannon thanks to its geomorphology. It acquires therefore geologic and climatic characteristics conditioning the vegetal and animal population. Avifauna acquires a significant importance on a national and International level and when associated to human activities and the local cultural heritage, all these conditions justify the denomination of this area as NaturalPark of the International Douro.

Description: A place intended to support the initiatives of environmental education, visits and fieldtrips and other activities that go on in the region. It is responsibility of association ALDEIA.

The area of the mountain ranges of Montesinho and Coroa was chosen as NaturalPark for congregating conditions where the pleasant integration of man with the environment is visible.  The MontesinhoNaturalPark was created in 1979, being one of the biggest protected areas of Portugal. With a surface of 75 000 hectares, it includes about 9 000 inhabitants distributed by 92 villages. It is constituted by a succession of mountains and valleys deeply incased, with altitudes varying between 438m and the 1481 m where the villages, nestled in sheltered and discrete points, pass easily unobserved to the eyes of the occasional visitor.

Description: Responsibility of Palombar – Associação de Proprietários de Pombais Tradicionais (traditional pigeon house owners association), a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to contribute for the recovery, conservation and revitalization of the traditional pigeon houses of northeast region.

Description: Equipment that intends to preserve, to promote and to interpret the landscape of the region. Situated in the MontesinhoNaturalPark, it allows to a trip for the fauna and flora of the region, in full contact with the nature.

Grassy and woody space, located on the edge of the river Angueira, with tables and benches for pleasant picnics.

Description: A place that offers a splendid view of the Rio Douro.

Description: Place for fauna and flora observation with information panels for the visitors

Difficulty: Midium