The Roman Bridge of Trajano, with two millennia of history, still intact over the river Tâmega
The Castle of Chaves and its Keep, open to the public, with views over the Flavian basin
The Museum of the Região Flaviense, guardian of the archaeological and ethnographic heritage of the Municipality
The Forte de São Francisco and the Praça de Camões, in the urban heart of Chaves
The Termas de Chaves, direct heirs to the ancient Aquae Flaviae, and the riverside area of the Tâmega
about the place
Chaves lies in the far north of Trás-os-Montes, in a broad basin surrounded by mountain ranges, beside the river Tâmega and the border with Spain. Its history reaches back to the Palaeolithic, but it was as Aquae Flaviae that it gained lasting fame — a Roman spa city whose name still evokes today the waters that rise from the ground. In 1258, D. Afonso III raised Chaves to the status of a town and granted it a royal charter, consolidating a human presence that spans millennia without interruption.
