VIANA CASTLE AND BARCELOS

ITINERARY TRIP

IN HOTELS GROUP GATHERING, CITY CENTRE (TRINITY STATION METRO) .VIAGEM IN FREEWAY TO Viana do Castelo. THE CITY, DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS AND MUNICIPALITY, IS LOCATED TO THE BEAUTIFUL MOUTH OF THE RIO LIMA, HAVING THE SEA ONE OF THE MAIN FEATURES AND INFLUENCES. VIANA CASTLE IS LOCATED IN A LOCAL BLESSED BY NATURE, MARKED BY GREEN MINHO AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA AND LIMA RIO THE ACCOMPANYING, PAYING LANDSCAPES SOLE AND UNFORGETTABLE. VISIT TO SHIP MUSEUM GIL EANES. ASCENT TO Stª HILL. LUZIA. VISIT. CONTINUING THE JOURNEY TO BARCELOS. THE ORIGINS OF BARCELOS ARE GOOD OLD TOWN, going back to villages PREHISTORIC AND HAVING BEEN INHABITED BY OTHER PEOPLE AS ROMANS OR Carthaginians. IN 1140 ALREADY received KING OF THE FIRST PORTUGUESE FORAL, D. Afonso Henriques, attesting LOGO FROM LOCAL IMPORTANCE THAT SINCE ASSUMED ALWAYS A STRATEGIC POSITION IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE COAST AND INTERIOR, PORTUGAL AND CASTILE. ALMOÇO.DE AFTERNOON, VISIT TO ONE OF THE ARTISANS ART OF FIGURED BARCELOS. RETURN TO PORT CITY. END OF THE TRIP.