S. Pedro do Sul municipality is framed in by the massive mountains of Arada, and S. Gralheira Macarius. These mountains with their lush landscapes, their streams of cold water and crystalline, its hidden villages in the valleys and mountains combined with the magnificent sunset and sunrise, which can be enjoyed, is a piece of the world which serves as a refuge to Gods of inspiration.

From the top of the mountain S. Macarius the sunrise is beautiful, the colors that dazzle, the landscapes are a feast for the views, all say they are of divine creation. Of 1054 m. Hill may be the mountains of sight Montemuro da Estrela and Serra do Caramulo, you see all the green valley of Lafões days and more clearly sees himself in Porto, the Tower of the Clerics.

In the mountains life is to taste the stillness of time and space that comes for all to live in harmony with nature and it is this that draws the oil to build the houses typical of the quaint villages of Pena, the Fujaco, Covas or Covas do Monte Rio Villages blessed by centuries chapels of S. Macarius above and the shrine S. Macarius low. This whole massif of the “Monte magaio” lives wrapped in traditions, rituals, myths, legends, beliefs goats who kill wolves that eat snakes and holy men carrying lighted candles in their hands, whose memories are not erased in the course of new times.

Who climbs the mountain of Arada faced with a sumptuous simplicity of cliffs and canyons with small villages and clear waters to see themselves in the green valleys, which contrasts with the tone of the common rocks in the elevation of Arada.

The village of Coelheira is marked by a magnificent carpet of carqueijal and trimmed by flocks of sheep, goats and kids which there are established customers. Also a lake, a plateau of the mountain, with its trout leaping and bubbling, is part of a horizon pastoral and serene.

Later, following the road, lies the village of Candal, with its typical rural clusters. Who can come stay at the campsite or in the warren of cozy houses Cottages that there also exist. These equipment are in great demand, because the Mountain tourism is gaining more fans, and mountains as the municipality of S. Pedro do Sul is well worth it!
Sierra Gralheira is a massive one starts to rise from the banks of the river Baroso, where lies the ancient “Royal Monastery of S. Christopher Lafões, dating its origin to a period before the founding of the nation, and a place where the proximity of the elements is to stimulate the virtues of the spirit.

Starting to climb, up the mountain, you reach one that has been the most Portuguese village of Portugal, we are talking about the village of Manhouce, with all its traditions ethnographic, artistic and culinary much appreciated is the lamb Gralheira. Soon, nearby is the Port, hometown of many of those who visit us and that good weekends are the so-called “Sintra Beira.

The kind of people serranos frankly it should be stated in the brotherhood that we entertain with a good ham and homemade bread, it also chouriça and traditional homemade brandy and fine glass of wine green Lafões. People are friendly and sincere, always willing to provide useful information about the region and their hiding places worth visiting.

[site in the City of São Pedro do Sul]