To Castelo Branco it is not only necessary to come by the recognized embroidered fame from his colchas from linen with thread from natural silk. This city also deserves a visit although it only is for buying oil of Beira Baixa, that has Protected Denomination of Origin and that is exported from century XVII. In addition, the garden of its Archiepiscopal Palace invites us to I relax...

Constructed in century XVI, the Archiepiscopal Palace has surprising a beautiful garden, with pools, cascades, fences, flowers, shades, lights and statues of the apostles and kings of the country. From any place of Castelo Branco it is possible to also descry what it is of the very old castle that built the Templarios Horsemen. The church of San Miguel, that wisely mixes the styles Renaissance and the Rococo, and the museum of Sacred Art are other obligatory visits in this city that combines the nobiliario heap with the taste by the nature.

The inhabitants of Castelo Branco are thankful that you demonstrate interest to know where is the hermitage of Nossa Senhora de Mércoles, to which render a fervent devotion. Then, a highway, from as soon as a pair of kilometers, arrives until this temple from which it is descried, at the bottom, the summit of Sao Martinho. It is, by the way, the highway 18-8 the one that, from Castelo Branco, happens through the skirts of the mount, it allows us cross a river Ponsul, where it is I castrate of Sao Martinho, and arrives until the village from Malpica do Tejo, already in the dominions that the longest river of the Iberian Peninsula waters.