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On the slopes that connect the peak of Marão to the river Douro, marked by valleys "powerfully dug", where some water lines such as those of Ovil, Valadares, Zêzere, and Teixeira, draw one of the greenest municipalities of the region...
LAND OF FLAVOURS
The gastronomy of Baião is so special that even some people say that Eça de Queiroz fell in love with both the landscape of this land and the flavors of their traditional cuisine when he wrote The City and the Sierras, referring to the magnificent rice ...
ANCIENT LAND
The oldest occupation of this territory is concentrated in the central plateaus of the Aboboreira and Castelo mountains and goes back to the recent prehistory that extends over a long chronological period of four thousand years (V to I millennium BC) ...
LAND OF CULTURE
The municipality of Baião presents remarkable heritage values, surprising panoramas, customs and traditions that enrich and particularize
this part of the country.
MAGICAL LAND /LAND OF MAGIC
In this land of mountains and rivers - which rips to the skies -, territory of water, life, sculpted in shale and granite covered with the green of the forest, we walk through shadows and fogs, unraveling the mysteries that hide in the imagination of his people.
ADVENTUROUS LAND/ LAND OF ADVENTURE
There is a land inviting us to be adventurous, filled with sites to inspire us, where we and the breeze become one, emotions run wild and reality is sensational. There is a land where we can be ourselves and be bold...
Get to know Baião culture, heritage, nature ...
During the Roman occupation of this territory the populations already inhabited preferentially in the slopes and in the valleys of the main waterways, with natural highlight for those of Ovil and Douro. There are traces of trails ...
The occupation of the region continues throughout the medieval period, standing out the hill of the Castle of Matos. Strong brand in the landscape and the identity of Baião because it was the place chosen by the lord of this territory for the construction of ...
Mata da Reixela is considered by experts as the most important area of native forest in the region and one of the most important of all the Douro Litoral. This forest reflects the dynamic nature of the vegetation and how it evolved ...
Of course, the establishment of the arouquesa calf, an autochthonous breed, is a specialty not to be forgotten by connoisseurs. Who better than the international expert of the FAO, MH French, who already in 1967 affirmed: "The race Arouquesa ...
Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes was born on April 14, 1909 in the parish of Gestaçô, in Baião. He was the son of the rural proprietors Alexandre Pereira Gomes and Celestina Soeiro Pereira Gomes, being one of the six children of the couple ....
António Mota was born in Vilarelho, Ovil, municipality of Baião. Professor of Basic Education, published in 1979 his first children's book, "The Village of Flowers", not ceasing to write. His stories, many of them with history, ...
Serra da Marão is divided administratively by the municipalities of Amarante, Baião, Mesão Frio, Régua, Santa Marta de Penaguião and Vila Real. Its reasonable length of about 20 km allows to include a high diversity of conditions ...
Mandatory on feast days, weddings, baptisms and birthdays is the roast evening with oven rice. Many people, however, do not dispense with the green or bazulaque that was offered to the guests of the bride and groom before they went on foot to the ...
Large dolmen, made up of nine stanchions, with an access corridor that distinguishes itself from the funeral chamber in plan and elevation, and which originally was composed of three stalks on each side. In its interior are still ...
Official Tourism Website in Baião
Project developed by the municipality with the objective of promoting tourism in the Municipality of Baião, providing information on the hotel, patrimonial, landscape, gastronomic and cultural offer.
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