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The Region

The village of the Sabugueiro has the heading of the village highest of Portugal.

Situated in the valleys of the Mountain range of the Star, about 1150 meters of altitude, the Sabugueiro offers its visiting magnificent landscapes, as well as one varied joint one of regional products, where if it detaches the famous cheese of the mountain range, the ham, the fulled ones, the honey, aguardente zimbrada, the bread of rye, the blankets, the carpets woollen of sheep, forgetting the famous dogs of the mountain range that they take a walk vagarosamente for the streets of the village, or then, closed in small bird cages does not wait of a caress or a possible owner that it gives to affection and a free space to them for growing.

For the roads of the village also it will be able to find folloied shepherds of the fidiciary offices friends dogs of the mountain range. Keeping its flocks that entoam music with its guizos for the streets of the Sabugueiro the way of the grass, the Dog of the Mountain range is a precious element in the guard of the flocks, against the eventual predators .

Besides finding dogs for sale in the side of the road, it will be able to visit one of here existing kennels, to observe and to acquire a genuine Dog of the Mountain range of the Star. Currently the main reference is not the pastorícia, but yes the tourism.

The Sabugueiro is identified as center of Serrano tourism, place of ticket and stopping of that they visit and that they cover the Mountain range of the Star, nominated in direcção to the Tower.

Today the Sabugueiro is a modernized village, great tourist center where every day they are seen to pass immense cars.

Parties and Pilgrimages
Santíssimo Sacrament (first Sunday of August
Lady of the Favour (third Sunday of September)

Gastronomia
Baked kid
Trout of escabeche
Salmonada trout
Morcela
Torresmos
Requeijão
Cheese of the Mountain range

Artesanato
Miniatures wooden
Cestaria
Ferraria
Tamancaria
Stockings and Caps woollen.

Source: Tourist script Seia, Mountain range of the Star
 
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