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Trilho do Megalitismo do planalto de Castro Laboreiro

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Trail through one of the largest megalithic necropolis of the Iberian Peninsula, testimony of a human occupation that goes back to prehistory. Starting from the mildness of the Rodeiro, population cluster that is closest to it, it follows the various megalithic nuclei of this necropolis, allowing simultaneously to know the plateau of Castro Laboreiro.

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  • Trail through one of the largest megalithic necropolis of the Iberian Peninsula, testimony of a human occupation that goes back to prehistory. Starting from the mildness of the Rodeiro, population cluster that is closest to it, it follows the various megalithic nuclei of this necropolis, allowing simultaneously to know the plateau of Castro Laboreiro.

  • North

  • Melgaço

  • Peneda-Gerês National Park

  • Peneda-Gerês Lamas de Mouro Gate

  • PTCON0001 Peneda/ Gerês

    PTZPE0002 Serra do Gerês (Gerês Mountain)

  • Gerês - Xurés Trasnboundary Biosphere Reserve.

  • ADERE - Peneda Gerês

  • Access to Melgaço from:

    - South - A1/A3 Lisboa, Porto, Braga Valença; exit direction Valença; and follow to N202 direction Monção/Melgaço.

    - Spain:

    - A6 connecting Galiza to Spain center.

    - AP9 A Coruña;

    - AP9 Santiago de Compostela;

    - Vigo - A52, exit As Neves or A Cañiza, then follow direction Arbo – Portugal;

    - Ourense - A52 exit A Cañiza and then direction Arbo – Portugal.

     

    Access to Castro Laboreiro from:

    - Melgaço - N202 3.

     

    Access to Castro Laboreiro by the National Park interior starting from Braga:

    - N101 to Arcos de Valdevez;

    - N202 to Lamas de Mouro.

     

    GPS: 42.054852, -8.137293

     

  • No

  • Rodeio (Castro Laboreiro)
  • Rodeio (Castro Laboreiro)

  • 13 km

  • Spring

    Summer

    Autumn

  • 4:30 h

  • 150 m

  • Easy

  • Linear

  • Todos os grupos

  • Marked and signalled according to Portuguese and international standards.

  • Informationa panels.

Points of Interest

Fuel in Melgaço and Lamas de Mouro.

Access

Access to Melgaço from:

- South - A1/A3 Lisboa, Porto, Braga Valença; exit direction Valença; and follow to N202 direction Monção/Melgaço.

- Spain:

- A6 connecting Galiza to Spain center.

- AP9 A Coruña;

- AP9 Santiago de Compostela;

- Vigo - A52, exit As Neves or A Cañiza, then follow direction Arbo – Portugal;

- Ourense - A52 exit A Cañiza and then direction Arbo – Portugal.

 

Access to Castro Laboreiro from:

- Melgaço - N202 3.

 

Access to Castro Laboreiro by the National Park interior starting from Braga:

- N101 to Arcos de Valdevez;

- N202 to Lamas de Mouro.

 

GPS: 42.054852, -8.137293

 
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