Links

Here you find some links which could be handy. We appreciate updates and tips.

Touristic highlights:

Tourism in the Serra da Estrela, with routes, museums, where to buy Serra da Estrela cheese, the Serra dog etc.
Tourism in the Serra do Açor with hiking trails through schist villages and information about this cultural heritage.
The Portuguese website of Oliveira do Hospital.
The official website of Central Portugal tourism and national Portugal tourism.

Museums

Breadmuseum: a great museum in Seia about the social history of bread, with a fantastic restaurant!
Museu do Caramulo: art and automobiles.
Grão Vasco museum in Viseu, named after one of the most important Portuguese painters of the Renaissance, Vasco Fernandes (also known as the Grão Vasco), who had his workshop in Viseu.

Golfe

Nearby Viseu - a 45 minutes drive - is a fantastic golf course with 27 holes, in the middle of the Caramulo mountains.

Sportivity and culture

Transserrano organises paintball, hikings, canoeing etc, and outings to antique olive mills and cheese manufacturers. Their website is in Portuguese; their guides are English-speaking.

Kayak on the Mondego-river

An organisation with English speaking guides.

To and from the airport with public transport:

http://www.toandfromtheairport.com/index.html

Cheap flights:

http://www.ryanair.com/
http://www.easyjet.com/
http://www.thomsonfly.com/en/index.html
http://www.transavia.com/

Driving directions, cheap flights etc:

http://www.questmap.com/