Five day trip to one of the lesser-known regions of Portugal, Tras-os-Montes (beyond the mountains), the area northeast of the country which borders with Spain, Galician and Castilian-Leonese. Inspired by memories of the great travel writer Portuguese Jose Saramago, Llmazares guides us through a poor and isolated area, for its beautiful wilderness, but also inhospitable and difficult ... and does so with great evocative power, writing a travel book as you would like a novel, alternating between descriptions of the environment memorable characters as the perpetual, the blacksmith and the boatman of the Douro, which enter the scene and immediately leaving, leaving But all their history, legend, or popular belief.
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