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Estrela Geopark

Country: Portugal

In the context of the Central Continental Portugal Region, Estrela Geopark includes part or all of the nine municipalities that are structured around Serra da Estrela – a factor that gives them identity and territorial cohesion.

The territory of this Geopark reflects a diverse landscape, the result of multiple geological transformations, climatic contrasts recorded, as well as the ancient human occupation, whose first records date back to the beginning of the 4th millennium a. C. Like the Portuguese writer of the 20th century, Miguel Torga, says “Estrela is tall, immense, enigmatic and her physical presence is immediately an obsession, adding to the disturbing reality an even more vivid certainty: that of all local truths emanate from it ”(Miguel Torga, 1967).

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A Volta ao Mundo em 80 sabores
The company The company VOLTA AO MUNDO EM 80 SABORES with its trade name “A Floresta”, in the centre of Manteigas, is a sea of delights. But, in the window of this bakery and pastry shop, the star is the pastry made with the beans (feijoca) of Manteigas, which only exists in this region and […]
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Alto das Urgas
The Company Rui Jorge & Nuno Luís, Lda is a family business owned by two brothers, Nuno Martins and Rui Martins. It all started in 2016, when we acquired 30 swarms and we have been growing steadily. In the year 2021 we launched the brand “Alto das Urgas”. We are producers of honey obtained naturally, […]
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Grande Forno
Grande Forno has a long tradition of producing rustic bread using traditional methods in the Serra da Estrela region. It has taken the best of each moment and put it into the bakery and pastry products it supplies to its customers. Regarding the bread, we start from the tradition of the Great Community Ovens that […]
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Miminhos da Olinda
Miminhos da Olinda was created by Maria Olinda Oliveira, owner of the restaurant “Mirante da Estrela”. Miminhos da Olinda uses excess products for the production of sweets and jams. As well as sweets, Olinda also started to experiment with traditional bread, turning it into a differentiating product with the introduction of pumpkin in its composition. […]
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Rémel
Rémel is a small company, managed by Rafael Figueiredo, a young man who left civil engineering to dedicate himself to a great passion of his father and grandfather, beekeeping. The mountain honey is characteristic of the highlands of the central mountain system. It has a strong, slightly acidic taste and a dense consistency. It is […]
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Vim do Monte
The Vim do Monte company was started by a family who returned to Portugal and which saw in the potential of the Videmonte hamlet an opportunity for the production of local products, namely rye bread and the growing of aromatic herbs. Rye bread is a well-known local product in Guarda, especially in the village of […]
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Vinho da Ordem
This project was born out of one of the “Conversations around Wine” held at the College of Agronomy of the Southern Region of the Order of Engineers, which encouraged the producer and his family to recover a vineyard once used by various religious orders, such as the Order of the Temple, which had been producing […]
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Estrela Geopark

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Producers and restaurants in this geopark

A Volta ao Mundo em 80 sabores

Alto das Urgas

Grande Forno

Miminhos da Olinda

Rémel

Vim do Monte

Vinho da Ordem