Sabugal

The municipality of Sabugal belongs to the District of Guarda and part of the Natural Reserve of Serra da Malcata, being crossed to the North by the river Coa. Your location has been a dominant factor in the setting of peoples, as evidenced by assets that abound for 40 parishes of the municipality and that are related to various periods of history. Currently, agriculture and livestock farming are the main economic activities and occupy part of the scarce population that resides in the Sierra, in small isolated villages. The production of ewe's and goat's cheese is another important and very expressive activity in the municipality. The reasons to visit the Sambucus are many: Besides the heritage (historical, archeological, ethnographic and natural, there are festivals and fairs, bullfights, capeias and garraiadas, musical groups, green spaces, remarkable cuisine and crafts. The cuisine is known for trout fishing, hunting wild boar and rabbit (among other species of hunting), the goat and the queijo da Serra da Malcata. The soup of horns, the grilled lamb, sausage, rice with Hare, roast lamb, disposed of or broth of dried pods are some of the best known. In jam, cake donut, pardo, the "forgotten", the corn porridge, pita and yellow rice pudding is stretched pretty thin. The handicraft articles do not abound, but the wooden parts, the blankets of tatters, embroidery, lace, wicker chairs and wrought-iron parts usually appear a bit by all craft fairs.

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Historical Villages: 12 Treasures to Discover in Portugal

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Where to eat in Sabugal

Where to sleep in Sabugal

Carya Tallaya – Casas de Campo
Carya Tallaya – Casas de Campo

Accommodation unit Carya Tallaya-Villas offers 4 houses (three T2 and T1) so beautiful and seductive how surprising, by contrast with between traditional const…

Cró Hotel Rural
Cró Hotel Rural

4 star

Abriu as portas no início do verão de 2015, num edifico construído de raiz, paredes meias com o balneário termal do Cró. Envolvido por uma paisagem natural ent…

Casa da Villa
Casa da Villa

Stone House, originally the historical village of Sortelha, located inside of walls, very close to the Castle and Pillory. It consists of two independent floor…

Near Sabugal

Aguiar da Beira

Aguiar da Beira


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Fornos de Algodres

Fornos de Algodres


Discover the charms, the hospitality of its approximately 1700 inhabitants and, of course, the Queijo da Serra of this village at the foot of Serra d…

Celorico da Beira

Celorico da Beira


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Guarda

Guarda


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