Where the Minho flows into the Atlantic and the festivities are never small.
6 festivals recorded in this district
the district
Viana do Castelo sets the bar high for Portuguese religious festivals — gold in the traditional costumes, flower carpets in the streets, fireworks heard in the next district over. Between the Lima River and the ocean, it brings together beaches, green hills and a coastline that invites you to stay one more day. This is the Minho at its most festive and its most beautiful.
what to see
The Senhora da Agonia festival turns the city into a parade of colour every August.
Santa Luzia Hill offers a view that stays with you.
The northern beaches, from Afife to Moledo, wide sand and characterful sea.
Ponte de Lima, right nearby, the oldest town in the country — and it knows it.
The Soajo and Gerês mountains bring the feel of a village from another time.
