Vale Dos Moinhos

Outdoorsy activities are available around the surrounding lands of Peneda-Gerês National Park and in Albergaria forest, including hiking along the Pedra Bela trail, canoeing, waterskiing and windsurfing at Albufeira de Caniçada‘s reservoir, and horse riding and paragliding with local excursion organisers. The local and wholly plungeable pools, lagoons and waterfalls are also a must-see around here, so be sure to squeeze in a visit to some or all: Cascata do Arado, Sete lagoas, Poço Azul, Cascata Tahiti, Cascata da Portela do Homem, which all lie between 25 and an hour and 15 minutes’ drive. Wildlife spotters, watch out too: you’ll be lucky enough to be staying among a landscape that’s inhabited by creatures both land- and air-based, from wild boar, deer, badgers, and wolves to eagles, the king kites and hawks and heaps more. And finally, the site owner recommends a trip to the submerged village of Vilarinho da Furna, whose ruins now poke out just above the waters of the reservoir, and to the 17th-century church of São Bento da Porta Aberta, 12 minutes’ drive away.