Costa Verde

The Costa Verde is endowed with mansions, and farms full of gardens and vines. This  natural region painted of green, characterizes for the beauty of its mounts, valleys and rivers with clean and sparkling water. The Agricultural Tourism typically predominates in this region full of houses made of granite and wood, where if hospitality breathes. Solar and mansions, decorated with blazons of séc. XI they denounce the  aristocrat tradition of the region, everything impregnated of stories and legends of a Heathen inheritance that, with the birth of the first king of Portugal covered of Christianity, rituals and processions that last in the time. Between mediaval cities castles are risen imponently, walls, churches, monasteries of some achitectural styles that would be unforgivable not to visit. The Sanctuary of Sta. Luzia in Viana do Castelo, the Bom Jesus in Braga, the Castelo de Guimarãe, the Torre dos Clerigos in Oporto, among others. Oporto, capital of the North, loaned its name to the famous Wine of Oporto, the started to be a business card of our country. The tripas à-moda-do-porto, the Rojões à Minhota, the fumeiro and the Alvarinho are exilibris of the region. And for who likes strong emotions, a good adventure in the river Minho is a good choice, Rafting and canoeing seduce many that pass for there, and as it orders the tradition, a good hunted or fished to cheer any one. Of a calmer point of view, a stroll of boat for the River Douro allows to appreciate with all detail the hillsides full of vines, everything impregnated with the natural diversity and the slightness of the passage.