North Olive Oil Municipalities
Carrazeda de Ansiães
Here, we are in one of the most ancient Portuguese municipalities, its territorial area having been demarcated around the 19th century. XI, when the Leonese king, Fernando Magno, granted him a charter. Since that period, Ansiães has marked the entire history of Northeast Trás-os-Montes, establishing itself in this region as one of the most important fortresses on the right bank of the Douro River.
Freixo de Espada à Cinta
Freixo is a town full of history and can be enjoyed by visitors with great satisfaction, as they walk through its streets full of shutters and Manueline windows, the old medieval walls and tower, when visiting the Church, when strolling along the Encruzilhada, along Rua das Flores, through the Valley, through Castanheiro or through Outeiro, you will certainly enjoy an unparalleled pleasure.
Macedo de Cavaleiros
Legend has it that, during Moorish times, there lived two knights who used strong maces in combat, which is why everyone knew them as the mace knights. They were so brave and strong that their fame, already a runner in the world, reached the ears of the king, who, after watching, enraptured, the feats of the knights, decided to grant them great honor, calling the place Macedo de Cavaleiros. It is a land of simple and hospitable people where they say: “Those who are here send here to Marão!”
in Discovering Portugal, Selections from Reader’s Digest, 1982.
Mirandela
In the city of Mirandela are some of the city's best architectural values, such as the Palácio dos Távoras, an imposing noble building rebuilt in the 17th century, the Palácio dos Condes de Vinhais, the walled enclosure of which only the Porta de Sto remains. Antônio, the old bridge, which continues to be unknown as to the date of construction and which constitutes heritage values and the culture of a people.
Mogadouro
The Municipality of Mogadouro has an ancient settlement that can be traced back to prehistoric times. Documenting this occupation are the villages of Barrocal/Alto and Cunho, the megalithic monuments of Pena Mosqueira, Sanhoane, Barreiro, Modorra, the Riupestre art of Fraga da Letra, in Penas Roias, and other scattered finds that we found in the Archeology Museum Room of the Village.
Murça
A mixed municipality of “cold land” and “hot land”, it is crossed by the Tinhela river and partly marked by the Tua river.
Its production of olive oil and wine is appreciable. Constituting part of the Demarcated Region of Douro and Trás-os-Montes, its essential economy is winemaking (although closely associated with olive oil).
The name of the parish is the subject of different opinions. One of these opinions says that it derives from the number of bears that existed in the place. The other opinion says that the original name of the parish and municipality was Muça and not Murça – a Muslim name.
Tabuaço
Tabuaço is a balcony between mountains and rivers, where nature is dazzled and enchanted and one sets out to discover a territory where there are two small worlds that nature, the work of men weathered by the summer sun and history have brought together, and from where nectars blessed by the gods flow.
Torre de Moncorvo
The history, the countryside, the peace, the Douro and Sabor, the vineyard, the mountains: dream of this territory twice, in experiences, in memories.
Live it, on and off the screen. Create your windows of emotions!
Dream. Explore. Discover Torre de Moncorvo is the most recent promotional campaign promoted by Torre de Moncorvo City Hall to publicize the heritage and territory.
Valpaços
Located in an area where Celts and Romans left their marks, the Valpaços region, located in Trás-os-Montes, is a plateau area, crossed by an intense hydrographic network. The climate is characterized by very harsh winters and very hot, dry summers.
It was a very populated region since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by the many megalithic remains.
Vila Flor
Vila Flor is a unique municipality. A piece of land, hot and cold, wild and velvety. A corner named for the beauty that emerges from the purest and most natural and makes itself known through the simplicity of its people.
Here, you will find well-designed green and cultural spaces, with mountains and forests, as well as rocky and rugged spaces that are impossible to lose sight of.
Vila Nova de Foz Côa
In its roots, Vila Nova de Foz Côa finds the Paleolithic man who, with modest artifacts, created ambitions and projects for his spiritual and material universe in the hardness of the shale, making this sanctuary the largest open-air rock art museum, today a World Heritage Site. .
Vimioso
Vimioso has been mentioned since the beginning of Portuguese nationality. It would have appeared to the west of the current village (below Fundo da Vila), in a place humid enough to produce the wicker that gave it the name of vimioso place.
At that time, Galician-Portuguese would have been spoken in the lands located west of the Maçãs River and Asturo-Leonese, which gave rise to the Mirandese language in the lands located north and east of the Angueira River.
The lordship of Vimioso was given by the first Portuguese kings to the Antas family, whose manor house and coat of arms can be seen in front of the current Main Church.
