Cinfãs It has a multi-century foundation, having the first Charter granted by D. Manuel I, dated 1st May 1513. Composed of a mountainous part and a riverside part, this county spreads along the northern slope of the back of Montemuro. The Serra de Montemuro and the Douro River valley are two determining morphological axes, which give this county scenic features of unparalleled beauty and diversity.
The Serra de Montemuro provides the unique welcome of cultural and typically mountain villages, as is the case of Valley of Popes, Bustelo da Lage, Aveloso and javelin (among others). Pico do Talegre - rocky elevation with a geodesic landmark, is assumed to be the highest point in the county which, at 1382m, is covered with unique natural landscapes. In winter, the rain opens paths down the mountain, forming waterfalls and lakes that, when the temperature is negative, become ice mirrors. Snow is also a strong point that transforms the landscape, which undergoes mutations during the four seasons of the year.
The Bestança valley, which accompanies the river with the same name, exudes genuineness that reveals itself in a perfect conservation of natural heritage, biodiversity, rurality and ethnography unaltered by time. The terraces of pasture and agricultural culture skillfully molded between the landscape, the cobbled water mills, the bridges in local wood and the stone houses with wood overlay, are unique examples of the popular and traditional architecture of Cinfãs. In this valley, full of waterfalls and landscapes of unparalleled beauty, there is also a large amount of medieval remains and pre-Roman sidewalks that delimit the routes and pedestrian sections with a natural vocation.
In addition to hunting and fishing as leisure activities and leisure activities, Cinfãs it also offers fantastic conditions for recreational and competition nautical practice, especially due to the perfect layout of the Albufeira do Carrapatelo and its mooring and mooring points: Porto Antigo and Escamarão.
For everything associated with it, Cinfãs it is, as the poet says, "the pleasant region where the Gods strive for favors...". (João Saraiva).
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Serpa Pinto Museum
Category: Archeology; Typology: Museum.
Location: Rua Dr. Flávio Resende, nº 34 - Cinfães
Located in one of the oldest areas of the village, in the surroundings of the garden with the name of the illustrious Cinfanense explorer, it was inaugurated on April 20, 2000 and has contributed to a new cultural dynamic. The building where the "Museum Serpa Pinto" - primary dwelling of the explorer himself, there was no construction from scratch that would allow the elaboration of museological structures. As such, the space was rebuilt and reorganized in order to create a museum for conservation, promotion and research, within the dimensions already existing.
From the exhibits on display, the visitor can appreciate some of the most important assets that belonged to the intrepid Cinfan explorer - Serpa Pinto, as copies of the first editions of his books, telegrams, personal and professional objects, reproductions of uniforms, etc.; the archaeological collection resulting from excavations and investigations carried out in some parishes of the municipality and concerning traces from the time of the expansion of the Roman Empire; and the oriental legacy kindly given by the Cinfan couple: Maria Amélia and Isidro Teixeira.
In addition to these, it works at the Museum Serpa Pinto, temporarily, the Tourist Office, for promotion and any type of information, as well as the Craftsmanship tourist and/or visitor oriented place.
Romanesque Church of Escamarão
Category: Religious Architecture; Typology: Church
Location: Lugar de Escamarão, 4690 Cinfães
Situation: Classified; Category: Property of Public Interest
The Church of Nossa Senhora da Natividade in Escamarão is located in the Parish of Souselo, which in medieval times was one of the most important Coutos in the region.
The Church, in style Romanesque and completely cobbled, it was built on the site where there was a convent of the Canons Regtrantes de Santo Agostinho, founded around 1150. Built in the form of the 12th century, it has a longitudinal plan, consisting of the juxtaposition of the rectangles of the ship and the chancel. It has articulated volumes and horizontal arrangement of the masses, and the coverages are differentiated from one- and two-slope roofs. The main facade has an access portal with pointed arch with archivolts decorated with stylized flowers and spheres, supported by imposts, central crevice, corbels and arc in the middle of the hollow center bearing a bell. On the north side of the church there is a foundation for leveling the floor, two crevices, one ridge and cornice. On a deeper plane, the body of the ship, composed of rosette and an angular cutout that, at the same level as the side ridge, limits the outline of the main façade. On the south side, the arched portal is pointed and rests on imposts, corbels, corbels and cornice, with the chancel body also in a more indented plane composed of crevice, corbels and cornice.
Romanesque Church of Tarouquela
Category: Religious Architecture; Typology: Church
Location: Mosteiro – Tarouquela (next to the EN 222 road), 4690 Cinfães
Situation: Classified; Category: National Monument
The Church, in style Romanesque and completely paved, originated in the 12th and 13th centuries, but can also be inserted in the 17th century, as it was modified and remodeled during that period. The Church has a longitudinal plan composed and irregular of articulated volumes – a single nave, bell tower, chancel and chapel adjacent to the left side of the chancel. The main façade has a portico with a pointed arch, six columns with carved capitals and three archivolts. On the sides, the church has a blind bell tower and belfry with full center arch, with finial in cornice, pinnacles and pyramidal cover crowned by a ball and metallic cross. The body of the chancel has a decorated frieze, two fenestrations with pointed arches, corbels carrying the cornice, and a polylobed oculus in the body of the side chapel. The south side is marked by the body of the bell tower and access staircase. The side portico has a pointed arch and tympanum, a frieze and two pointed arch fenestrations, the cornice being supported by a corbel. The façade is born from the buttress of the transept, being torn by an ogival door of logs and half-reeds in the internal archivolts. The modillons of cornice they are decorated with phyto and zoomorphic motifs.
Church of S. Cristóvão de Nogueira
Category: Religious Architecture; Typology: Church
Location: São Cristóvão de Nogueira (next to the EN 222 road), 4690 Cinfães
Status: Under classification
The Church, late Romanesque, is mentioned in the parish memoirs of 1748, nothing empirical being known at an earlier date. With root moth and medieval origins, this Temple it was reformed in the Mannerist and Baroque periods. It's composed by ship the only one with a high choir and chancel, lower and narrower, and has a tower with spiers and a spire. In a good medieval way, it has thick walls and few light openings, portals and pointed arches resting on protruding imposts with archivolts decorated with spheres and corbels, and cantilevers with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic decoration. with the rebuilding of the chancel in the century. XVIII, and in the wall of the north elevation is inlaid a frieze with geometric decoration - possibly from the primitive church that gave rise to it. Outside, next to the south portal, there is a cross. Inside, you can admire wooden coffered ceilings with hagiographic scenes and gilded altars of national and Rococo styles.
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