Eco Routes Bragança

ALFANDEGA DA FÉ

1 - Ciclopista path de Alfândega da Fé

Location: Jardim Municipal Alfândega da Fé

Start / End: Praça do Município

End / Home: Rua Engº Duarte Carrilho

Length: 250 meters

Access: Downtown

Description: The bicycle path is located in the heart of Alfândega da Fé, since it surrounds part of the Municipal Garden, making it possible for its users to enjoy a whole set of tourist, cultural and sports infrastructures around, such as the Cultural Center, Sculptures "Head of the Roman Soldier", "Portal of the Cerejais", "Nascente" and "Fountain of the 4 Rivers", the Biological Ornamental Ribeira and the zone of biosaudáveis ??equipments. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 41.341352 -6.962615

BRAGANÇA

2 - Fervença Bike Trail

Location: Circular | Around the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança | Right bank of the Rio Fervença

Start / End: You can start at any point

End / Start: Can end at any point

Extension: 3 710 meters

Accessibility: City Center Academic Campus

Description: Bike path with 2 meters wide has the floor in bituminous colored green. The two directions of the road are separated by white dash and identified by horizontal signage, also painted white on the pavement. The cycle path begins by embracing the entire Santa Apolónia Academic Campus (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança), followed by the Green Corridor on the right bank of the Fervença River to the Silk House and the Living Science Center. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 41.801011 -6.760425

3 - Ecopist of Mãe de Água

Location: Old railway branch of the city of Bragança

Start / End: Rotunda do Caçador

End / Home: Near the Bus Station

Extension: 1 710 meters

Access: Downtown Circular Interior of Bragança

Description: With an extension of almost two kilometers, the Ecopista da Mãe d 'Água sits on the old railroad channel of the Tua Line. It has a wide width and has red colored bituminous flooring. Both directions of the track are separated by white dashed lines and identified by horizontal signage, also painted white on the pavement. The initial itinerary accompanies the new Interior Circular of Bragança and the rest develops parallel to the pedestrian corridor. (External Source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 41.803485 -6.760425

MACEDO DE CAVALEIROS

4 - Ecovia da Albufeira do Azibo

Location: Albufeira

Home / End: Praia da Ribeira

End / Home: Central Center of the Protected Landscape of Azibo's Albufeira

Extension: 15 600 meters

Access: A4 motorway

Description: It is a nature course that accompanies the southwest shore of the Azibo Lagoon, allowing the circulation of bicycles across the beaten track, between Ribeira Beach and the Central Nucleus of the Protected Landscape of the Azibo Bay. This course is to the full extent inscribed in the Land of Knights Geopark. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 41.586300 ° N 6.905973 ° W

MIRANDA DO DOURO

5 - Ecopista do Sabor - Sendim - Two Churches

Location: Miranda do Douro

Start / End: Sendim

End / Home: Two Churches

Extension: About 15 000 meters

Accessibilities: IC5 | N221 | Them

Description: The deactivation of the Sabor (Pocinho-Duas Igrejas) railway line in 1988 intensified the degradation of a fabulous heritage that took years to erect. At the end of 2011, REFER and the municipality of Miranda do Douro agreed to build an ecopist between Sendim and Duas Igrejas Stations, in an extension of 15 km, similar to the already active ecopist of the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo. Protocols were also signed for the restoration of the building in the two stations and in the footstep of Fonte Aldeia, returning to these places the status of iconographic symbols of the Transmontano Northeast. It is intended that the ecopist

- which is to be completed by the end of 2015 - and all the buildings, boasting the rich heritage, gastronomy, arts and crafts, regional products and Mirandesa language itself. The ecopist is part of the Natural Park of Douro Internacional promoting, in a large scale, tourism in the various aspects. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 41 ° 23'50.442 "N 6 ° 32.29" W

MIRANDELA

6 - Mirandela Bike Trail

Location: Mirandela

Start / End: Rotunda da Maravilha

End / Home: Camping Tres Rios Maravilha

Extension: 2 000 meters

Access: A4 motorway

Description: The bike path starts at the Rotonda da Maravilha (northern sector of the city of Mirandela) and continues along Maravilha Street, following the Três Rios Maravilha Camping. Throughout this one can appreciate the natural landscape that includes fields of cultivation and the confluence of the rivers Tuela and Rabaçal that give origin to the River Tua. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 48 ° 29'48 "N 7 ° 10'56" W

TORRE DE MONCORVO

7 - Ecopista do Sabor

Location: Torre de Moncorvo

Start / End: Torre de Moncorvo

End / Home: Carviçais | Tower of Moncorvo

Extension: 24 700 meters

Accessibilities: Torre de Moncorvo, Larinho, Carvalhal and Carviçais

Description: Platform of Linha do Sabor from km 0,600 and km 40,150, its rehabilitation gives citizens the opportunity to enjoy a secular heritage and to approach nature simultaneously. In the Serra do Reboredo foothills (north / east), with an extension of 24,700 meters, the route, with a pavement suitable for the indicated activities, has public illumination of the urban sections (Moncorvo, Larinho, Carvalhal and Carviçais), signage and urban furniture . The rehabilitation of the built heritage reconverted it into infrastructures of support and shelter. The ecopist is dedicated to bicycle rides, pedestrian and similar, not allowing the traffic of motor vehicles. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS:

Tower of Moncorvo: 41.17011-7.05735

Carviçais: 41.18506-6.87634

VILA FLOR

8 - Vila Flor bicycle trail

Location: Maintenance Circuit

Start / End: Trucking Central

End / Home: Near the Tourist Complex of the Kestrel

Extension: 500 meters

Accessibility: IP2 IC5 Vila Flor

Description: Path that allows the movement of cyclists from the Truck Center to the surroundings of the Tourist Complex of the Peneireiro. Made in painted porous concrete, surrounded by agricultural land, stands out the landscape surrounding vineyards and olive groves. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS: 41.302284 -7.157460

VIMIOSO

9 - Ecovia of the Park of Vimioso

Location: Maintenance Circuit

Start / End: Vimioso Camping

End / Start: Vimioso Municipal Pools

Extension: 2 800 meters

Accessibilities: Maintenance Circuit, Municipal Pools and Camping

Description: The maintenance circuit of Vimioso is an ecopist with about 2800 meters of extension and profile of 2 meters wide, with cement-colored pavement, that connects the urban equipments Camping and Municipal Pools. It is a cycle and pedestrian circuit that has several maintenance stations, distributed along the circuit, equipment exclusively in wood, intended for physical, individual or group maintenance. The surrounding landscape is characterized by the existence of pinewood, grove, mount, grassland and wild forest, being thus a route where the contact with nature is privileged. The spaces destined to rest and leisure areas are located in strategic points that allow the enjoyment of splendid views on the surroundings that appeal to the senses, to balance and to peace. (External source: Portoenorte.pt)

GPS:

Start:

41 ° 35 '37.88 "N 6 ° 30' 59.89" W

End: 41 ° 36'29.78 "N 6 ° 31.10" W