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Camilo Route
The Camilo Route is a product in the field of literary tourism that currently integrates the Writer’s House-Museum and a pedestrian trail that follows the steps of Camilo. Both visits are guided. It also integrates, as a complement, a gastronomic experience inspired in the writer’s work. There are two associated restaurants where the Camilo Menu is available. It is an experience you will not want to miss!
Camilo’s House-Museum
The guided visit to the house where Camilo Castelo Branco lived and wrote, in the second half of the 19th century, provides the privileged setting for understanding the domestic and family experiences of one of the greatest writers of Portuguese literature of all time.
The House of São Miguel from Seide preserves part of its bookstore, besides furniture and objects that belonged to Camilo or to a family member.
A visit to the house provides an immersion in the atmosphere of the time and the clear feeling of living with the greatest Portuguese novelist, who wrote most of his work here and ended his life here because of the blindness that tormented him. The spices of his work - drama, love and tragedy - are present in this visit!
Average visit time: 45-60 minutes
The House of São Miguel from Seide preserves part of its bookstore, besides furniture and objects that belonged to Camilo or to a family member.
A visit to the house provides an immersion in the atmosphere of the time and the clear feeling of living with the greatest Portuguese novelist, who wrote most of his work here and ended his life here because of the blindness that tormented him. The spices of his work - drama, love and tragedy - are present in this visit!
Average visit time: 45-60 minutes
Estevão's Cangosta Trail
This designation is inspired by a reference made by Camilo Castelo Branco in his most famous novel: "Maria Moisés".
The "Trilho da Cangosta do Estevão" (Estevão's Hangosta Trail) is designed between Camilo's House - Museum, in the parish of Seide and the center of the parish of Landim, in a guided tour.
Along the way, a strong relationship is established between Camillian texts and the architectural and landscape heritage of the parishes of Seide and Landim, providing visitors with the opportunity to revisit some of the stories and characters created by the novelist and, simultaneously, to observe the landscape and interact with the local population.
Average trail time: 100 to 120 minutes
Distance to cover: 3 km
Difficulty degree: Easy
Recommendations: wear comfortable clothing and footwear
Contacts
+351 252 309 750 (Study Centre)
+351 252 327 186 (Museum)
geral@camilocastelobranco.org
Address: Avenida de S. Miguel, 758, 4770-631 S. Miguel de Seide, V. N. Famalicão
Latitude 41397283 - Longitude 8463738
Access
- Roadway
Rede Expressos Renex (Destination Vila Nova de Famalicão)
TUF (Blue Line: Famalicão - Seide)
ARRIVA (Buses 105, 106, 107: Famalicão - Seide - Guimarães)
- Railway
CP Urbanos (Linha Porto - Braga: Vila Nova de Famalicão Station)
- Taxi
Largo de São Miguel de Seide (+351 911 788 152 | +351 926 236634 | +351 252 106 260)
- Private transport
A7 Highway Guimarães, Saída 6 Seide, Municipal Road M573
The "Trilho da Cangosta do Estevão" (Estevão's Hangosta Trail) is designed between Camilo's House - Museum, in the parish of Seide and the center of the parish of Landim, in a guided tour.
Along the way, a strong relationship is established between Camillian texts and the architectural and landscape heritage of the parishes of Seide and Landim, providing visitors with the opportunity to revisit some of the stories and characters created by the novelist and, simultaneously, to observe the landscape and interact with the local population.
Average trail time: 100 to 120 minutes
Distance to cover: 3 km
Difficulty degree: Easy
Recommendations: wear comfortable clothing and footwear
Contacts
+351 252 309 750 (Study Centre)
+351 252 327 186 (Museum)
geral@camilocastelobranco.org
Address: Avenida de S. Miguel, 758, 4770-631 S. Miguel de Seide, V. N. Famalicão
Latitude 41397283 - Longitude 8463738
Access
- Roadway
Rede Expressos Renex (Destination Vila Nova de Famalicão)
TUF (Blue Line: Famalicão - Seide)
ARRIVA (Buses 105, 106, 107: Famalicão - Seide - Guimarães)
- Railway
CP Urbanos (Linha Porto - Braga: Vila Nova de Famalicão Station)
- Taxi
Largo de São Miguel de Seide (+351 911 788 152 | +351 926 236634 | +351 252 106 260)
- Private transport
A7 Highway Guimarães, Saída 6 Seide, Municipal Road M573
Camillian menus
The visitors can let themselves be surprised at the table of one of the restaurants that offer the Camillian Menu.
Ferrugem Restaurant
«She found the platter laughing:
– Your Majesty says he likes...
— Pickled sardines? If I like it!... Let's have them, they're telling me so —eat me.
And he threw himself on the sardines with a furious eagerness". »
(A brasileira de Prazins, by Camilo Castelo Branco, 1882)
Prelude - bread, fritters and smoked ham
*Vinha da Bouça IG Minho Branco 2015
First moment - sardine, onion and pepper
*Pardusco Private DO Vinho Verde Tinto 2012
Second moment - white beans, vegetable stock and tora
Geneva lemon elixir
Third moment - yellow cockerel and carolino rice
*Cottas Porto Tawny 20 anos
Fourth moment - rice pudding
Coffee – toucinho do céu (rich custard dessert made with sugar, egg yolks and almonds)
*Wine pairing is optional
Booking contacts:
+351 252 911 700
Address:
Rua das Pedrinhas, 32,
4770-379 Portela, Vila Nova de Famalicão
Oprato Restaurant
««You make pork rinds; one goes to the dripping; one pours it into a bowl, where the chicken is already carved or half-roasted; on top one pours a dash of white wine, a little vinegar and water an almost nothing; then bay leaf, cloves, pepper, egg yolks, slices underneath and lemon slices on top. It's to be eaten and shouted for more!..."»
(O santo da montanha, de Camilo Castelo Branco, 1866)
Appetizers
Corn bread, olives, liver slices, "orelheira" sausage with green sauce, chickpea salad with codfish, rojões, bolinhos de bacalhau (codfish pastries)
Soup
Vegetable soup with green beans
Main course
Galinha mourisca
Desserts
Orange pudding, almond tart, crème brûlée, seasonal fruit
Drinks
Water, juices, wine from the house wines
Booking contacts:
+351 252 321 892
Address:
Rua da Estrada Nacional 204-5, 39,
4770-778 Avidos, Vila Nova de Famalicão
Ferrugem Restaurant
«She found the platter laughing:
– Your Majesty says he likes...
— Pickled sardines? If I like it!... Let's have them, they're telling me so —eat me.
And he threw himself on the sardines with a furious eagerness". »
(A brasileira de Prazins, by Camilo Castelo Branco, 1882)
Prelude - bread, fritters and smoked ham
*Vinha da Bouça IG Minho Branco 2015
First moment - sardine, onion and pepper
*Pardusco Private DO Vinho Verde Tinto 2012
Second moment - white beans, vegetable stock and tora
Geneva lemon elixir
Third moment - yellow cockerel and carolino rice
*Cottas Porto Tawny 20 anos
Fourth moment - rice pudding
Coffee – toucinho do céu (rich custard dessert made with sugar, egg yolks and almonds)
*Wine pairing is optional
Booking contacts:
+351 252 911 700
Address:
Rua das Pedrinhas, 32,
4770-379 Portela, Vila Nova de Famalicão
Oprato Restaurant
««You make pork rinds; one goes to the dripping; one pours it into a bowl, where the chicken is already carved or half-roasted; on top one pours a dash of white wine, a little vinegar and water an almost nothing; then bay leaf, cloves, pepper, egg yolks, slices underneath and lemon slices on top. It's to be eaten and shouted for more!..."»
(O santo da montanha, de Camilo Castelo Branco, 1866)
Appetizers
Corn bread, olives, liver slices, "orelheira" sausage with green sauce, chickpea salad with codfish, rojões, bolinhos de bacalhau (codfish pastries)
Soup
Vegetable soup with green beans
Main course
Galinha mourisca
Desserts
Orange pudding, almond tart, crème brûlée, seasonal fruit
Drinks
Water, juices, wine from the house wines
Booking contacts:
+351 252 321 892
Address:
Rua da Estrada Nacional 204-5, 39,
4770-778 Avidos, Vila Nova de Famalicão