Interpretation Center Pedras Parideiras

The museum is a disappointment, but the phenomenon is really cool

Basically you have rocks (granite) that are giving birth to other rocks (biotite). A strange and apparently fairly unique natural process, visible her on a surface of about 1 km square. The views of C...

Interesting

This only exists in two places in the world - Portugal and somewhere in Russia. Interesting for children to see little rocks coming out of bigger rocks. And, in the larger field, they can even look ...

Visit of the Arouca Region.

Before we drove to the “Panorâmica do Detrelo da Malhada”, we had a short stop-over at the location from the “Pedras Parideiras”. So to really understand the fact of these enigmatic rocks, which are...

Visit to Arouca Geopark

We visited the Arouca geopark as my husband loves geology and I find it fascinating, too. This area was part of the jeep tour we took of Serra Da Freita and was unique. The whole area is amazing and b...

Sadly, not any stone on sight

As an geological site, you can see the bedrock and the small holes where the "pedras parideiras" are coming from. Unfortunately, there were none on sight: the site is not very protected and it must ha...