Vila de Loriga is located in Serra da Estrela, about 770 meters high, as if protected by two watchful and haughty sentries that seem to touch the sky, which are the Penha do Gato with about 1800 meters and Penha dos Vultures over 1800 meters. A magnificent winding road for tourism, well set in bold curves by the slopes of the mountains where modern engineering has put all its resources, takes you to Loriga where upon arrival you will contemplate the whitewashed houses to immediately give the impression that it rests upon a throne where Nature seems to be sovereign in a true kingdom of splendor.

 

These hills that surround it and adorn its forehead offer visitors breathtaking landscapes, at the same time dazzling you in the mirage of steep hills, cut into peaks, or in the capricious ripple of valleys and hills, where crystal clear water springs and glides, as singing in a rumbling melancholy everywhere, and their streams with open arms these waters receive to offer to the rivers and they take them to the sea. Loriga is one of the most beautiful mountain lands, well worth the visit of tourists, where, among the most diverse natural and artistic predicates, you will certainly find the rest and peace you need.

 

The people of this village are hospitable, friendly and above all a friend of this clod. To evince him, is to be scattered through the streets of the village, landmarks and other memories that testify as well as the love of his people to the native land

 

Loriga is therefore like a bride clothed with charms. Armed with her best galas, queen of these gigantic mountains that surround her, she has, like a diadem, a crown that laughs almost to scratch the skies, as if smiling as she opens her arms and seems to say to her children around the world : Welcome!

 

Loriga seems to know the longing that these children harbor in their hearts and it is not too much, once every year, to feel them around them, to live with them happy days, to feel their yearnings, and then to share their blessing with those who leave. and to those who stay.

 

But it is not only for her children she wants to cherish, it is also for neighboring peoples and friends, outsiders and tourists, who she wishes to receive in the same embrace of longing and friendship. In this beauty of verdant terraces, truly beautiful that looks more like a throne to the Virgin, the visitor will find this panorama that will make him exclaim: - Beautiful! ... Yes beautiful! more goes out.

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