Access from:

- Manteigas (± 15 km) - N338;

- Seia (± 34 km) - N339;

GPS: 40.315157, -7.575648

View on the Torre plateau, the Cântaros, the Nave de Santo António and the moraines of Poio do Judeu and Alforfa, formed by glacier tongues, and of Viriato's lagoon.

Site of special geological and floristic interest. Piorno is the Portuguese name for plants of the genus Retama.

There are the ruins of the old cable car.

Glacier - mass of ice formed by the recrystallization of snow that flows forward, or has flowed at some time in the past.

Glacier tongue - the lower, elongate part of a valley glacier.