São Leonardo da Galafura Viewpoint

Access: Situated near Covelinhas, half way from Régua to Vila Real.Access from roads EN 313, EM 312.2m direction Régua Stº. Xisto, Vila Seca de Poiares, lugar da Estrada and Galafura. Or EN 313.1 Vila Real, Abaças, Guiães a.nd lugar da Estrada until Galafura. The contiguous space has a fine snack park where a big pick nick in honor of the saint is held on the third Sunday of August

Description of view: This viewpoint, located halfway from Régua and Vila Real, offers one of the most extraordinary panoramas over Douro river and its ledges. Blue Douro river peacefully flows down below kissing the margins, the “quintas” and manor houses. It was the beloved place of Portuguese poet Miguel Torga, who was so many times appointed for the Nobel Prize for literature. He used to say that São Leonardo was a boat with its keel inside out that Nature turned in the middle of the valley.