Tourism in Portugal

The city of Covilhã offers its visitors truly unique gastronomic delights, deeply rooted in the historical past of the once factory-city. 

The sean runs in Portuguese veins since the beginning of time. It has inspired Portuguese poets and writers of all generations and triggered the Portuguese Discoveries. The sea is the leitmotif to read the Portuguese nostalgia and melancholic soul, as well as the word "saudade". Defining a collective past, but also signing the ways of the future.  

World-acclaimed Portuguese visual artist, Joana Vasconcelos, has conceived the stunning work "Suspension", a 28 meter-high rosary, inaugurated in 2017 during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Apparitions, placed vertically in the Church of the Most Holy Trinity. Today this work can be seen from an horizontal perspective upon a replica of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vetruvian Man. 

Originally published in 1947, the novel A Lã e a Neve (Wool and Snow) by prestigious Portuguese writer Ferreira de Castro is an inspiring journey across the landscapes and the identity of Covilhã, Portugal's first factory city. The land of wool and snow, inhabited by relentless factory workers who dare to dream of a better future.