Cinfães — Douro and Serra do Montemuro

festivals in this municipality5

XI Emigrant Festival 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 União das freguesias de Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires
Grand Festivities in Honour of St. Michael and Our Lady of the Nativity 29 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 Souselo
Barraquinhas de Souselo 11 – 13 Sep 2026 Souselo
Festival in Honour of Our Lady of the Star 21 – 23 Aug 2026 Oliveira do Douro
Festivities in Honour of Saint Quitéria 6 – 9 Aug 2026 Tendais

parishes4

Oliveira do Douro1 festival
Souselo2 festivals
Tendais1 festival
União das freguesias de Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires1 festival

what to see

The baroque Mother Church of São João Baptista, and the nineteenth-century pillory, in the heart of the town
The Serpa Pinto Museum, with the collection of the Cinfães-born explorer, and the Tourist Office
The Vale do Bestança, with watermills, wooden bridges and intact stone houses
Pico do Talegre, the highest point in the Municipality, with views over Montemuro
The Lagoa do Carrapatelo, for fishing and water sports on the Douro

about the place

Cinfães stretches along the southern bank of the Douro, at the foothills of Montemuro, among vineyards on terraced slopes and villages that time has barely touched. It was here, the chronicles tell us, that D. Afonso Henriques spent his childhood in the care of Egas Moniz — and it was also from here that Serpa Pinto set out, the explorer who crossed Africa from coast to coast. A municipality that knows how to be river and mountain range at once, with a royal charter dating from 1513.