Route: Santar garden village – Casa de Santar vineyards – Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Prazeres – forested slopes of the Dão river valley –…
When I first heard of the Caminho do Dão, ‘a nature pilgrimage’, I immediately knew I wanted to join in. I knew the Dão from…
One of the ways I would describe the experience of walking through this river valley is: an intimate encounter with life. Life in all the…
When walking, a man then feels that he is natural, rather than in nature, feeling the vegetable, mineral and animal aspects in yourself. Walking magnifies…
The Dão. When most people hear this word, they think of wine before they think of the river that gave the wine its name. To…
Rewilding Tourism Training stage 1: Check! Yay! Since 2019 Rewilding Europe is offering a Rewilding Tourism Training to professionalize and scale up nature-based tourism across…
Excited that Caminho do Dão is featured on shiny magazine pages in Viseu Internacional. It’s not an ‘in depth’ article but more a poetic impression…
Route: Hotel Beira Dão – Corujeiro – Furadouro – Penedo – floodplains of the Dão river – Sangemil Distance: 8 km Duration: 3-4 hrs depending…
Route: Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Cabeça ~ Monastery of Santa Maria de Maceira Dão ~ valley vistas and vineyards ~ shaded path along the…
Route: Quinta da Ponte – Qta. Dos Ferreiros – Entre Águas – Ponte Dum – Quinta da Ponte Coordinates starting point: 40.701599, -7.579616 Starting time:…