The county of Marco de Canaveses has a destination and a vocation marked by the two rivers that delimit: the Douro and Tâmega, hence the expression: “Between the Douro and Tâmega, which begins the Marão.”
This condition is favourable to river tourism based on nautical sports and hobbies: sports fishing, sailing, windsurfing, canoeing … The artificial reservoirs of Carrapatelo (in the Douro) and the Torrão (in Tâmega) lend themselves to wonder for these healthy activities.
The Douro is, moreover, a wide net where they go road tour boats, traversing one of the most impressive river routes that you can find anywhere.
Paisagisticamente, rivers complement to the mountain, an almost perfect symbiosis.
Who, one day, down one of many secondary roads leading to the Douro, hardly forget the moment when, in the unravelling of a curve, the river finally occurred there in the background – a surface lazy, rested, in contrast to the live hectic pace orography of the accident.
The mountains of Aboboreira and Montedeiras are an almost uninterrupted sequence of views of an overwhelming grandiosity.
Moreover, the first archaeological interest in the plan: there are important prehistoric vestiges, including tapirs and mamoas. Also in the game: there was a newly created zone of hunting tourism, divided between the municipalities of Marco de Canaveses and Baião, doing justice to the abundance of species.
Speaking of archaeology, another site visit and detailed attention: the vestiges of Tongóbriga was an important Roman settlement of the remaining (and are the subject of careful study and preservation) the baths, the forum, living quarters and a cemetery.
Any church is capable of surprising us, or else moved in, even if only by a detail of gilded (Good Vila do Bispo, Soalhães, Alpendorada, Manhuncelos and S. Nicholas), tile (Soalhães, Vila do Bispo and Good Town of Good Quires) or a painting inside (fresh in St. Isidore, Tabuado and S. Nicholas).Then there are Royalists, sobressaindo to Plowshares, in Alpendorada, the graves antropormóficas, the pillories (St. Nicholas, Town of Good Quires, Soalhães), the curious memorial of Alpendorada …
