Description Aguiar da Beira

The Municipality of Aguiar da Beira is, for those who do not know this little paradise, a pleasant place where contact with the natural environment is privileged. The tranquility of its surroundings invites all visitors to share the wonders of the waters and those of nature, without forgetting the contact with the culture and traditions of the people who inhabit it. Municipality of Beira Interior is 40 km from Viseu and 70 km from Guarda, its district capital. It consists of 10 parishes (3 of them parish unions), covering an area of ??203.68 km ², with a total population of 5,521 inhabitants (Census 2011).

The important human occupations that date back to prehistoric times have left a built legacy, which allows a journey through the historical evolution of the way of life and the culture of a people. The Neolithic Carapito Dolmen (national monument) is part of this picture; sarcophagi and anthropomorphic graves; the castros, clusters of the Chalcolithic, as are the cases of Castro de São Pedro dos Matos, Castro de Carapito and Castro das Abelhas.

The pillories, symbols of power, are always elements of historical interest, existing in the municipality three: the one in Carapito, the one in Pena Verde and the one in Aguiar da Beira, the latter inserted in the monumental trilogy of the village, consisting of Pelourinho, Torre do Relógio and Fonte Ameada, all considered national monuments.

There are also several churches and chapels that, for their beauty or originality, deserve to be visited and known, as is the case of the Chapel of Senhora dos Verdes in Forninhos or the Chapel of Senhor do Castelinho in Ancinho in Eirado.

Serra cheese, highland apples, chestnuts and potatoes are the most traditional crops. To them is added the breeding of animals, namely in aviaries, pigsties and dairy houses.

Noteworthy is the offer of diversified local accommodation and the quality of gastronomy and restaurants, based on the valorization of endogenous products, as is the case of yellow miscellaneous, as well as the emergence of another tourist product, which favors contact with nature. , the sport of Orienteering, sought after by hundreds of professional athletes from all over the world.

In turn, the existing thermal resources, enhanced, in the future we hope for soon, through the Caldas da Cavaca Tourist Complex, promise to constitute an important tourist development pole, in the domains of leisure, health and well-being, with an impact for the region.

A region that, more than visiting, it is necessary to know and experience.