Trail: Galegos
From Galegos to La Fontañera (The Route of coffee smuggling)
Between the Portuguese village of Galegos and the Spanish one of La Fontañera smuggling – mainly of coffee –, was one of the daily activities that allowed the inhabitants’ difficult subsistence in wild surroundings of poor soil.
The trail that begins and ends in Galegos runs past Pitaranha, Fuente Oscura – an almost ghostly village – and La Fontañera, a village so close to the border that one of its houses is in the Portuguese side. It’s a very beautiful rural landscape trail through winding and cork oak-bordered lanes and paths often confined in ancient and high granite walls and frequently “watched over” from far by the fortress town of Marvão.
The trail is very pleasant, of medium difficulty and accessible but it has some slopes to overcome; an irregular stone pavement sometimes with big blocks makes progress a bit more difficult in some areas.
Points of Interest (POIs)
GALEGOS
Situated 1 km far from the border Galegos is a small agglomeration that engaged in the trade of products for the Spanish market.
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PITARANHA
Pitaranha is situated in a very leafy zone geographically surrounded by Spain on all sides except on the south.
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FUENTEOSCURA
It’s a Spanish settlement near the border where smuggling carried on back was usually hidden.
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LA FONTAÑERA
The village is situated in a wasteland unfit for farming and lacking in water thus owing its existence to smuggling.
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Technical details
- Itinerante rating: 8/10
- Dificulty: 7/10
- Distance: 10.4km
- Duration: 3h50
- Total ascent: 520m
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