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solopes Says: Too "dead", for my taste (what a contrast with Obidos), the town, stands inside the castle, and this one needs no life to show its defensive solutions, with large walls, and narrow doors. After almost 800 years, it has changed position with people: It doesn't protect people...
solopes Says: After visiting, one doubt I took from there: Is it almost abandoned as it seems, or the life that still stands, is carefully hidden to preserve the ancient look of the place? At least, I think that tourism would justify a little more of human evidence, but the place deserves...
tucha Says: Surmounted by a castle built on a formidable crag at an altitude of 760 metres, Sortelha still retains its mediaeval appearance intact through the architecture of its rural granite houses.
ncfg Says: Well, the Passos da Via Sacra are little altars, Stations of the Cross to remember the Passion and Death of Jesus. They are located in several places of the village beautifully decorated with Baroque style. There are five in the entire village.
ncfg Says: Walking through the beautiful narrow and cobbled streets I found the parish church . A lovely stone church probably built in 1573, date wrote on the door. It is Renaissance style and it is dedicated to Nossa Senhora das Neves .I didn't get inside because it was closed, maybe...
Bar do Forno: Have a sandwish with a view
rsilva Says: We wanted a quick lunch and all restaurants were a bit crowded, so we decided to go to this bar/cafe as they had snacks/sandwishes and there were only a few people there.The owner was extremely friendly and we had a nice "prego no pao" (steak sandwich), which was quite...
ncfg Says: In Sortelha are very good places to eat.If you choose to dinner or lunch at this lovely village you can not loose some of the regional dishes, including the some medieval dishes in the D. Sancho restaurant where feijoada de Lebre (the rabbit with beanses) are a must eat.You...
ncfg Says: After seeing all my tips you can certainly agree with me that the best way to explore this little village is using your feats. Yes, but prepare yourself to the steps, streets with high inclination and the better of all hiking to the walls of the Castle and admire the...
micas_pt Says: Once you arrive at Sortelha, park your car and walk. Although the cars are allowed inside the castle's walls, I wouldn't advice you to do it. Driving past main street and main square doesn't enable you with the "Sortelha feeling". The village is small and quite easy to...
ncfg Says: Velharias means old things. You can find antiques things at this kind of shops, like old lamps, old agriculture artefacts, paintings, furniture and other things from the past.
ncfg Says: In a cozy village like this sure you will find some crafts to buy.Take a look to my photo and choose some things made by hand, like things made from hood and with straw of wheat, tatter blankets and carpets of arraiolos.
solopes Says: Opened to tourism, the few people that seems to keep on living in place is aged people, with the sympathy and simplicity of rural gents.That's maybe, the best in the fading Portuguese inland. There's no artificiality in those manners!
ncfg Says: Just take a look to my photo; isn’t it nice too seeing all the red roofs from the walls?Yes, the contrast between the stone and the red is so beautiful. In many regions of Portugal houses have red roofs and this ancient village as well.So I can say that this village is very...
ncfg Says: While i was walking through the narrows streets i was admiring some details and the old Lamps got my attention.All the rehabilitated houses have that kind of illumination to the street. So nice !
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Smokers beware!! Get yourself cigarettes before heading to Sortelha. My husband was not lucky enough to do this, and decided to buy a pack when we arrived in the village. Too bad for him, there wasn't a single place selling them, ... So he had to suffer until we left the village and was able to buy it somewhere else.
Updated May 8, 2004
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If you keep on the main streets, you will notice that most houses are extremely well kept, almost perfect - but if you take a closer look, you will easily notice that they are not inhabited, or owners are absent for long periods of time.
But if you get off the main streets and wander around small streets, you will be able to notice that, although houses are not so well kept, they are inhabited and they are "alive" - this was in fact my favourite part of Sortelha, the not so well kept, but lively side of the village.
Written May 7, 2004
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Just take a look at this photo! great mounts to hike.
So if you enjoy hiking i think it is a good place for it.
If you don't hike mountains you can opt by hiking the walls of the castle, just like i did LOL
Updated May 28, 2004
Address: Sortelha- Sabugal
Little cemetery outside the walls
ncfg Says: I suppose is not a must see that cozy cemetery but i wonder why it is located out the walls, maybe there is an historical explanation to that fact.I think the deaths have a great amazing view from there :-))
ncfg Says: Sortelha is part of Beira Alta, in the borderline area of the Council of Sabugal.Located at 773 metres of altitude, over Serra de S. Cornélio mountain, it is set over granite land and is part of an area where the biggest drops of altitude (between 400 and 800 metres of...
ncfg Says: Not hard to find, there is a small house where the Tourist Office is set. (Well i think on this village nothing is hard to find, it is too small ;-)). You have to enter on that door and go up the stairs.You can see on my photo the main entrance to there.
The historical Village of Sortelha
Sortelha is one of the most beautiful villages i ever seen, it is located not far from Serra da Estrela (30 minutes).
A very well preserved (too well for my taste) historic village, surely deserves to be visited. But, differently from, for instance Obidos, a well preserved but lively town, Sortelha resembles a dead...
The great charm of this village is its evocation of a mediaeval atmosphere, with all the houses having been built of granite and generally consisting of just one storey. Their foundations have been......
Build your own Sortelha page
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