Cyclin'Portugal Centre of Fróia River Beach (P32 - Blue)

Safety information

- Ride on open trails only

- Leave no traces of your passage

- Control your bicycle

- Yield to others

- Never scare the animals

- Plan ahead

- Pay attention to motorvehicles on public roads

- It is forbidden to use motor-vehicles on downhill trails

- Respect the environmental or maintenance signage

- Trails are restricted from September to October due to the red deer mating season

- Recommended use of GPS device

- Rentals available from the Residents association

SOS Emergency: 112

SOS Forest: 117

Proença-a-Nova Council: (+351) 274 670 000

Aldeias do Xisto Network: (+351) 275 037 393 | (+351) 960 101 873

Tips and hints

The Froia River Beach is one of the show-pieces of the municipality of Proença-a-Nova. The clear, crystalline water of the sources of the Froia river, the freshness and natural beauty of the space are the main features of this beach that has won several awards. The village of Figueira is a well-preserved schist village. Made up of streets, alleys, narrow quelhos and quelhas arranged in labyrinthine fashion, the core houses the communal wood oven, where bread is regularly baked. The Figueira stream, which circles the village, offers wide margins in certain places, used for subsistence farming, olive trees and grazing animals. These margins are beautifully structured by long hatchet schist stonewalls, in order to defeat the flow of the stream without degradation. Its width also facilitated movements between the cultivated fields and food and goods transportation.

Gastronomy: Maranho (goat stomach filled with goat meat mixture); wood-oven kid; plangaio (rice and pork stew); traditional smoked sausages; cabbage with breadcrumbs; tigelada da Cortiçada (baked custard pudding - Cortiçada style); fritters; coscoréis (pastries); broas de mel (pastries); honey; olive oil.

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