Access from:

- Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo (10 km) - N221 and N332. Follow the signs "Serra da Marofa".

- comimg from SW, the mountain is before Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo.

GPS: 40.864333, -6.991787

Marofa mountain range (976 m altitude) and its belvedere are an excellent place to observe and understand the largest reliefs in the Iberian Plateau. The mountain range itself is part of a Paleozoic quartzite crest (lower Ordovician) with ENE-WSW orientation, to which belong also the relief where is Castelo Rodrigo historical village and others to the north and south of this mountain.

From there, you can also see the Douro river system (which, beyond this river, includes Côa and Águeda rivers), to the east in valley of this last river.

At the top, a fire tower, radio and TV relays, a chapel (on the way up there is a Via Sacra) and the oldest statue (1956) of Christ and the one placed at a highest point in mainland Portugal.

Although it is outside the area of International Douro Nature Park, from the top of Marofa you can see part of it.

The top is always windy, but worth the visit, because the landscape is quite beautiful!

Hesperic Massif - a rigid block with more or less triangular shape that constitutes the old and fundamental part of the Iberian Peninsula, being formed by highly eroded reliefs and rocks that constitute today a plateau, slightly inclined to the west.

Paleozoic - geologic time era lasting from 540 to 250 million years ago.