The Hidden Portugal That Doesn’t Get In Touristic Routes
An alternative Portugal awaits you
Sun, blue, salty sea, and a white sandy beach. This is the typical image of Portugal that appears in tourism magazines and, as such, is the image that many foreigners have of Portugal. But, if this image is true, it only represents a small part of the territory with much more diverse landscapes than this one.
Portugal also has mountains, forests, and remote villages with houses made of schist stone. It also has plateaus, wolves, foxes, and cheese from Serra da Estrela. This mountain is the highest in continental Portugal, where there is skiing and temperatures have reached minus twenty degrees Celsius in winter.
I come from one of those regions where I see valleys and mountains everywhere I look. I come from a region that is the only one that does not border either the sea or Spain and which I would therefore say is the heart of Portugal.
A region of heroes from ancient Lusitania, the land that preceded the Portuguese nation. A land where probably the first Portuguese king was born and where King D. Duarte was born, a historian and one of the first Portuguese intellectuals.
A region that produced modern heroes like Aristides de Sousa Mendes, as well as gave birth to the fascist who ruled us…
