Heart of Portugal Walk
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Highlights Portugal is a compact land whose historic and cultural influences are as rich as her natural landscape is diverse. Our unspoilt walks take in lush valleys, turquoise lakes, Bronze Age remains and Moorish settlements. An all-inclusive holiday, it offers exceptional value for money too. 
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Holiday introduction
- Luxury **** hotel: swimming pool, romantic restaurant, converted chapel and cloisters
- Outstanding [and wholly] unspoilt walking: lush valleys, glacial cirques, pretty white villages unchanged over the centuries
- Masses of flora and fauna: eagles, buzzards, goshawks
- Bronze Age remains, Roman relics, Moorish settlements
- Super-value, all inclusive holiday; option to add on extra nights in Lisbon
In the very heart of central Portugal, where few tourists ever visit - there are more friendly shepherds than foreign walkers! - the unspoilt Beira is a region of outstanding natural beauty: magnificentmountains, lush gorges, turquoise lakes and stunning river valleys. The terraced hillsides are carpeted in colourful wild flowers - over 150 species - and there's a high chance of spotting rare birds of prey circling overhead.
Your base for the week is the wonderfully peaceful and hugely atmospheric **** Convento de Belmonte. With just 24 spacious rooms - each with its own private terrace - it exudes a feel of luxury and exclusivity. Antique furnishings abound and the small swimming pool affords sweeping valley views. Breakfast is a lavish buffet and evening meals - wine included - are taken in the romantic, candle-lit dining room (one evening we take you to Valelhas where dinner is arranged in a traditional village restaurant). If you fancy pre-dinner aperitifs in Belmonte - impressive C13 castle and Roman church - it's just a 30-minute stroll away.
We're probably a little biased, so here's what our customers say...
"Everything worked very smoothly from booking to the actual holiday."
Mrs Fedrick, Newbury
"It was very well organised. The local guide was excellent- over and above the call of duty."
Mrs Hogan, Dundee
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