Passage of automà ³ vel - approach Extensão 130 km

With beginning in Viana of the Castle and end in Bridge of the Bark, this stroll has the river Rasp as accompanying. região of Ribeira é Rasp of great tradições and has an enormous cultural wealth: castros, roads and bridge Romans, castles, vestÃgios of the Way of Santiago, everything meet throughout this river that marked one civilização. The traveller in £o deixarà ¡ também to appreciate the gastronomia of região: Popes of sarrabulho, rice of lamprey, rojões, broa of maize, watered the green wine…
This passage can be made of automà ³ vel, and without pressas, in one sà ³ day. But pé or of bicycle ¡ can be seleccionar itinerà smaller rivers, from letter 1/25000. The net of lodgings, over all in the rea a ¡ of the Tourism in the Agricultural Espaço, é satisfatà ³ laughs.

The ones that perhaps walks nowadays in £o ficarão you £o fascinated as Ramalho Ortigão, that it wrote in “the Farpas” To “Who in £o was and in £o it came for the right and the left of the ribeira, of Viana the Bridge of Rasp and bridge of Rasp the Viana (…) in £o it more knows of Portugal porção of céu and ground glad, more vibrantly more luminous and cantante”. But for certain in £o ficarão indifferent to blue of the river or the pureness of a ¡ guas of the tributaries, to the green that encircle permanently them or the s many tÃpicas villages that find in the way.

The best form of começar é with one café or small-almoço in the esplanade of the Hotel a Luzia Saint, inaugurated in 1918 and today explored for the Enatur/Group Eyelash. Of varanda they have an interview Viana, the old bridge goal ¡ heddle, the estuary of the Rasp and the beach of the Cabedelo. The two steps are the basÃlica, projecto of Happiness Land, inspired by the românico and bizantino.

The most interesting ways são the ones that, from Luzia Saint, follow for north in direcção of the mountain range of the Agra. However, part of these meets degraded very, dissuading circulação of automà ³ veis conventionals. Senão to make use of one 4X4, leaves of the center of Viana, next to the Hospital, and follows indicações até to the miradouro and basÃlica of Luzia saint. The city returns for way até the same. In the base of the mount it follows for EN 302 in direcção the Outeiro and Orbacém, até to arrive at the crossing of this road with EN 305 (Bridge of Sains).

The two passages confluem the 1 km of Orbacém, in the crossing of the two roads related in full coração of the High Minho, exactly next to the “wasteland, carrancuda and misteriosa” mountain range of Arga.

Valley the penalty to move away itself from the Rasp to admire the imponent serrania, the tÃpicas villages, the caracterÃsticos hà ¡ black bitos of its women, or same horses the untied one in mounts. Therefore it follows in direcção of Lanheses/Bridge of Rasp and, 1km later, turns the left for a city road in direcção Gondar/Dem.

Covered 5 km to go up, for road tarred between pines, follows in direcção the Dem (church)/Walks, pass next to the Santuà ¡ river Mrs. of Snows € “ visit indispensà ¡ vel € “ following indicações of Arga de S. João, Arga of low e from above Arga.

In this city road, of good great floor but with precipÃcios, requiring therefore condução well-taken care of, some quilà ³ meters after the village of Arga de S. João meets, the left, encircled for Mosteiro or Santuà ¡ river of S. João de Arga. Clearly românica Construção, much modified in séc. XVIII, old shelter of pilgrims who if directed Santiago de Compostela, é still palco of one of the most important pilgrimages minhotas. IN £o it has any type of sinalização, but é obrigatà ³ river to stop and to visit this rústico and mysterious place.

1,3km for the tarred road continues more até to find, the right, next to a curve and to pines, a land way in state razoà ¡ vel, that it leads to high the Mrs. of the Minho. ‰ an interesting point, in £o for the chapel that aà if finds but for the spectacular sight: asul, the Rasp, Lanheses and Ponte de Lima; the north, the serranias, that if extend até Spain.

I descend for the valley, is gone sighting one of the hugest panoramas of the Ribeira Rasp, since Bridge of the Bark até to the ocean. Daqui hà ¡ access cil fan ¡ for asphalt the S. Lourenço of Montaria, and later the Lanheses, for EN 305. Before de Ponte de Lima, can visit the Paço of the Almadas, the pillory (national monument) and the Solar celebrity of Bertiandos, exactly next to road.

‰ height to remember a celebrity squares popular: “I say good bye to it the mountain range of Arga /digo good bye the S. Lourenço/in £o I say good bye to you you /porque you know what penso”….

In Bridge of Rasp, it pauses to take café in the esplanade of the Havaneza, the most brasonada pastry shop of the roundnesses, and for a good stroll the side-river, observing, will be day of fair, the estendal of tents in the areal and the arcs Roman-medieval Da Ponte. IN £o it loses the towers of the chain, the first church, and também gà ³ tica Chapel of the Angel of Guarda.

By Bridge of Rasp it takes the EN201 for Valença and, 1,5km later, turns the right in direcção the Arcs Valdevez, using the EN202, throughout which it can admire, the left, old the solar ones of Pomarchão and Sabadão.

Km 26 of the EN202 it turns the left in direcção Calheiros, berço of one of the most famous solar minhotos, the Paço de Calheiros, used now, as many others, for tourism of habitação.
Little before arriving at the Paço de Calheiros € “ hà ¡ that to make a small shunting line to visit it € “ finds, its right, indicação the “Vacariça”. It follows for this forest land road, always to go up. São about 10km até to the high one of the mount, with a floor acessÃvel automà ³ veis in dry time. Chance to appreciate spectacular sight on the Valley of the Rasp, exemplary magnÃficos of folhosas and, in the Spring, the pretty colors of the matos in flower. Fond of the high one of the mount a stopping with very silêncio sends regards. With luck poderà ¡ to observe some rare units of squirrels that still exist in Portugal, as well as others espécies of animals.

The road € “ used for troço of Bridge of Rasp of the Rali of Portugal € “ has então a still better floor. It follows in direcção the spring for the main road, always to go down, ignoring all the other ways, as much the right as the left.

In a crossing in T, it turns the left, pass next to House of Forest Guarda and continues até to reach asphalt next to povoação of Hazels. E walks a little more, in the center of povoação, follows for the left in direcção Arcs/Lady of the Castle, always to go down até the EN303. It turns the right and, 4,3 km later, enters in Arcs of Valdevez. The Regional Cellar é excellent sugestão for almoço. In the high a House of the Arcs, solar yellow, deverà ¡ to be next to be recouped for cultural center.

In the center of the village, it crosses the old bridge and it follows até to the crossing for the Soajo. It uses EN 202-2 during 2km (direcção Soajo/Mezio) e, later capsizes for Soajo for EN 202.

During about 19 km poderà ¡ admiring the abutments of the mountain range of peneda até to alcançar the Mezio, one of the doors of entrance of the Natural Park of the Peneda-Gerês, that poderà ¡ to be one sugestão of visit.

If to opt to the program considered here, continues for the same road até the village of Soajo, certification of glà ³ laughs last. The pillory, único in paÃs with inscrição antropomà ³ rfica (MN), is placed in a plaza of balanced granite architecture. Graças to a pioneering initiative of the Associação for the Integrated Development of the Rasp, had been recouped eleven traditional houses for turÃstico lodging. Significantly the half one of the village, turns the left in a crossing, with diverse arrows, in direcção Lindoso.

300m of the crossing, stopping obrigatà ³ laughs to visit the espigueiros celebrities of the Soajo, set of construções in granite, very old, used to dry the maize.

It continues for this city road, pass for povoação of Wedges, and to the 10 end of km, chegarà ¡ the Barrage of the Lindoso. Its albufeira is extended over all for Spain and created plain magnÃficos of ¡ gua.

Passed the barrage and Cruzado the river, goes up até EN 304-1, where if it turns the right in direcção Bridge of the Bark.

Here valley the penalty to deviate for the left to discover povoação of Lindoso, with a famous castle and a espigueiros field of twenty and três.

For the return utilização of EN 304-1 sends regards to it, in plus an interesting passage, always with the Rasp the right, beautiful fluvial beaches. Hà ¡ still the atractivo of the Barrage of the Touvedo. € left of this road meets, signaled well, the accesses the s villages comunità ¡ laughs at Ermida and Germil, in full Yellow mountain range.

Arrived the small Bridge of Bark, one urbe of dimensões but of very expensive ¡ to cter. Passed the quinhentista bridge desça, the left, for the side-river. ‰ one espaço well-taken care of, with wooden restaurant in pavilhão and fluvial beach.
From the bridge and following for the main street, it is transferred old Municipal, edifÃcio Câmara qualified, of simétricas lateral arcarias, that the first church (MN) erected in the place most in high spirits of the village occults.

Ahead of Câmara, one larguinho with staircase, tipped for one igrejinha baroque and setecentistas edifÃcios, allows to new access the side-river. Two figurative, construÃdos painéis in years 30, embelezam the market.

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