Top 4 Natural Monuments around Martim

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The artificial grotto was designed by the Swiss-Portuguese architect Ernesto Korrodi at the beginning of the 20th century and features stone walls, trickling water, stalactite-like dripstones, and a small waterfall. The complex is a photo opportunity par excellence. It is located on a hill next to the church, surrounded by numerous beautiful, well-tended flowerbeds. At the top, an octagonal wooden pavilion awaits, offering a magnificent view of the entire area. Like the railings of the winding access paths, the beautiful little hut is constructed of woven wooden branches.

From the Santa Marta mountain, you have a great view of Braga. There are also some beautiful hiking routes on and around the mountain.

Magnificent place, a tour you will love

Hidden away on the cycle path that runs along the southern bank of the Cávado. Dizzying and impressive rapids! And a very adventurous path towards the medieval bridge.

The artificial grotto is a very popular place, especially on hot days.

In the parish of Santa Eulália de Arnoso, municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, at the foot of the hill commonly known as Santa Baia. near the Ponte do Olhoiro bridge, which crosses a rocky stream, there is a cave that the people, since ancient times, have named - Buraco do Scout. The Hole of the Looker is a subterranean path that is approximately a quarter of a league up to the Palhares hill, where there used to be a Moorish castle, and by the way, stones and bricks from the castle can still be found there. "But Jesus! It was a long time ago: I heard him tell my mother (may God speak in his soul) that her father already told him Now, as I was saying, there lived in this parish, in the times of the pagans and the Moors, a farmer who had a herd of oxen that he sent to graze there at the foot of the Hole of the Lookout. One of the cows came from the hill, always fuller than the others, but what he admired was that the cow had a calf, and when she went to court she never brought milk. The farmer suspected that they were taking him out that way, and, after that, he went to look out and saw that the cow had entered the Hole in the Hole, and when she was already far away, he ran after her and even grabbed her tail. . The cow went and went, going under the subterranean, and when it got there to the foot of the hill Palhares, began to graze in a meadow of rich grass. Meanwhile, the Moors and many Moors appeared, who said nothing to the farmer, who was blessed by what he saw... One of the Moors went to milk the cow, but the farmer never untied himself from the tail, if he wasn't enchanted there. The cow, after grazing until it was satisfied, left and the farmer followed her, still tied up, and when he got home he told his wife everything, but he was so haggard that after three days he died. That's how it became known that there are Moorish and enchanted Moorish people in the Hole of the Lookout; much wealth and even golden bells, which the little man (God rest his soul) saw inside. Even today, no young man, even if he is a bully, dares to spend the night near the Hole of the Lookout because bad things and sorcery stop there. Source: Abílio de Magalhães Brandão