Photo Gallery: Northern Portugal

Above: Walkers in northern Portugal will come upon many isolated, self-sufficient farming villages with thatched barns and haystacks: this is Vitoreira

Right: ‘Levada’ walking in northern Portugal: this 3.5km-long water channel is followed between Sobredo and Germil

Top left: A walk below the Serra do Soajo in the northern reaches of the Peneda-Gerês National Park leads to Trapela

Top right: One of northern Portugal’s most popular walks starts from alongside these centuries-old ‘espigueiros’ (grain stores) at Soajo, standing on mushroom-shaped stilts to deter rodents

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