Peso da Régua is a city of about 17,000 people (2011) in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region in Northern Portugal. The production of Port wine has been essential to the town's fortunes.
Understand
Tourist boats ply the river from this point carrying tourists through the locks of two dams to Régua.
Get in
Sá Carneiro Airport (Porto Airport), (OPO IATA)
The town is connected to Porto by train; the Douro railway line runs along the banks of the Douro.
Get around
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Map of Peso da Régua
See
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Museu do Douro
- Moorish Cemetery or Moorish Fountain
- 1 Family Manor Vaz Osório (Solar da Família Vaz Osório or Casa dos Vazes).
- 2 Museu do Douro (Douro Museum), Rua Marquês de Pombal, ☏ 351 254 310 190, ✉[email protected]. Mar-Oct: daily 10:00 - 18:00; Nov-Feb: daily 10:00 - 17:30. A museum dedicated to promoting the heritage of the Douro Demarcated Region and to Port wine. Accessibility for people with reduced mobility to all public and exhibition spaces at the Douro Museum. Elevator, adapted toilets and wheelchair. Adult €6, senior or student (13-25) €3, child under 12 free.
- Port Wine Manor
- Volunteer Firefighters Museum
Do
Its main pilgrimage is the parties in honour of Nossa Senhora do Socorro, which every year on the 14th, 15th and 16th of August attract thousands of people to attend different points of the party.
Buy
Eat
There is a restaurant and wine bar at the Douro Museum.
Drink
Sleep
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Rio Douro from Sao Leonardo da Galafura
Rural hotel
- 1 The Wine House Hotel - Quinta da Pacheca, CM 1070, Carneiro, 5100-424 Cambres, ☏ 351 254 331 229, ✉[email protected]. Check-in: 15:00 – 23:00, check-out: 08:00 – 12:00. 4-star rural hotel.
Hotel
- 2 Original Douro Hotel, Rua dos Camilos nº 115, 5050-273, ☏ 351 254 001 181, ✉[email protected]. Check-in: 16:00 – 24:00, check-out: 08:00 – 12:00. 2-star hotel.
- 3 Imperio Hotel, Rua José Vasques Osório 8, 5050-280, ☏ 351 254 320 120, ✉[email protected]. Check-in: 14:00 – 20:00, check-out: 07:00 – 12:00. 2-star hotel.
- 4 Hotel Régua Douro, Largo da Estação da CP, 5050-237, ☏ 351 254 320 700, ✉[email protected]. Check-in: starting from 15:00, check-out: 07:00 – 12:00. 4-star hotel.
- 5 Vila Galé Collection Douro, Lugar de Varais, 5100-426 Cambres, ☏ 351 254 780 700, ✉[email protected]. Check-in: starting from 14:00, check-out: until 12:00. 4-star hotel.
- 6 Six Senses Douro Valley, Quinta de Vale Abraão, 5100-758 Samodães, ☏ 351 254 660 600, ✉[email protected]. Check-in: starting from 15:00, check-out: until 12:00. 5-star hotel.