Guided Walking Tours Tours in portugal

Heart of Portugal Walk

• Luxury **** hotel: swimming pool, romantic restaurant, converted chapel and cloisters
• Outstanding [and wholly] unspoilt walking: lush valleys, glacial cirques, pretty white villages unchanged over the centuries
• Huge variety of flora and fauna: eagles, buzzards, goshawks,
  Bronze Age remains, Roman relics, Moorish settlements
• Super-value, all inclusive holiday; option to add on extra nights in Lisbon

In the very heart of central Portugal, where few tourists ever visit – there are more friendly shepherds than foreign walkers! – the unspoilt Beira is a region of outstanding natural beauty: magnificent mountains, lush gorges, turquoise lakes and stunning river valleys. The terraced hillsides are carpeted in colorful wild flowers –over 150 species – and there’s a high chance of spotting rare birds of prey circling overhead.

Your base for the week is the wonderfully peaceful and hugely atmospheric **** Convento de Belmonte.With just 24 spacious rooms – each with its own private terrace – it exudes a feel of luxury and exclusivity. Antique furnishings abound and the small swimming pool affords sweeping valley views. Breakfast is a lavish buffet and evening meals – wine included – are taken in the romantic, candle-lit dining room*.  If you fancy pre-dinner aperitifs in Belmonte – impressive C13 castle and Roman church – it’s just a 30-minute stroll away.

* One evening we take you (15mins) to Valelhas where dinner is arranged in a traditional village restaurant.

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